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Henri Coronado-Volta ’23 discusses his global studies major, studying away, and his plans to attend UW’s Public Health Epidemiology program Posted by: mhines / May 5, 2023 Image: Henri Coronado-Volta ’23 (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) May 5, 2023 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterHenri Coronado-Volta grew up in Seattle, Washington, and chose PLU because the smaller school offered the opportunity to build community, a chance to continue swimming, and living close to home—but not too

Big picture learning: Physics major Julian Kop ’24 studies the universe and his family background at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / April 1, 2024 Image: Julian Kop ’23 is a physics major who spent last summer conducting research in PLU’s W.M. Keck Observatory. (photo by Sy Bean/PLU) April 1, 2024 By Mark StorerPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterJulian Kop spent the summer of 2023 at Pacific Lutheran University looking up at the night sky and the stars. Kop earned an opportunity to do

flurry of fundraising that brought the total to the needed $1 million. At last Tuesday’s festivities, an obviously surprised Toven smiled broadly as he went up to the podium in the Scandinavian Cultural Center, which he helped establish. He said that creating an endowed professorship of Scandinavian studies is important, especially at universities  with a deep Lutheran heritage, such as PLU. Faced with tough times, some universities are reducing or phasing out their Norwegian studies programs

professors Christopher Browning and Robert Ericksen ’67, and by the support of many close friends of the university, as well as members of the Jewish community,” PLU President Loren J. Anderson said. In 2007, two prominent Tacoma area families funded the first $1 million in support of an endowed professorship in Holocaust studies at PLU. The gifts were made to honor the memory of their family and friends who were murdered in the Holocaust and to ensure that the painful lessons learned from the Holocaust

PLU professor uplifts story of ‘pink victims’ in farewell lecture Posted by: Kari Plog / April 5, 2017 Image: Robert Oelbermann died in Dachau, a Nazi concentration camp pictured above, in 1941. Oelbermann, who faced persecution because of his identity as a gay man, is the subject of Samuel Torvend’s farewell lecture as chair of Lutheran Studies. April 5, 2017 By Genny Boots '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (April 5, 2017)- Professor of Religion and Chair of Lutheran Studies

In their own words: Global Studies majors on what it’s like to study (and study away!) at PLU We asked just-about-to-graduate global studies majors to share their thoughts on what it's like to be a global studies major at PLU. Here's what they had to say.  Posted by: mhines / July 21, 2023 July 21, 2023 Why global studies at PLU? “As a first year, I enrolled in GLST 210 ‘just because’ and by the end of the year had switched my intentions of a pre-med degree to declaring both a Global Studies

PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition Cassio Vianna, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies, has been awarded a grant to write a 4-movement suite entitled Invisible Garden, that blends jazz, chamber music and Brazilian music. Posted by: Liza Conboy / April 18, 2024 Image: Jazz Under the Stars featuring Vianna/Bergeron Brazilian Quintet with Cassio Vianna on piano at PLU, Thursday

March 16, 2009 PLU recognized for first class global studies Pacific Lutheran University has received the 2009 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, a prestigious award that honors outstanding efforts on and off campus to engage the world and the international community. PLU is the first and only private college in the West to have received this honor. On March 10, NASFA: Association of International Educators announced the recipients of the award, which aside from PLU

January 23, 2014 A mock-up of one of the panels in the exhibit Us Local People: Sámi Vuoiŋŋa and Resilience. (Courtesy of the Scandinavian Cultural Center.) Scandinavian Cultural Center Exhibit Kicks Off Months-Long Human-Rights Inquiry at PLU By Sandy Deneau Dunham, Content Editor Pacific Lutheran University’s renowned Scandinavian Cultural Center (SCC) will hold a free public reception celebrating the opening of an important exhibit that explores the history of the Sámi, the native people of

university's curriculum caters to those eclectic interests. Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory“Who Beyoncé is for?” is not usually a question that you ask when you’re bopping your head to “Single Ladies,” or “Partition,” or any of the other hundreds of hit songs that have made Beyoncé a worldwide music icon. But it is just one of the questions students will tackle in the Women’s and Gender Studies course titled “Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory.” “The general premise of the course is to think about Beyoncé