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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

that’s why Mayer has continued his support, he said. “It’s a remarkable beginning of a new program that builds on PLU’s strengths,” said Robert Ericksen, the Kurt Mayer Professor of Holocaust Studies in the Department of History. Really the program continues to manifest into something larger since its inception 34 years ago, he said. Last May, a group of generous donors helped create an endowed professorship for the program. With continued support, Nancy Powell hopes to expand the program to a chair

PLU, joining a group of other prestigious colleges with Holocaust Studies, which asks students to write essays on the topic of genocide. Lemkin was an international lawyer who initiated the term “genocide” and in 1948 succeeded in persuading the United Nations to adopt the Genocide Convention which outlawed the destruction of races and groups. Last week the two top essayists presented their findings and were recognized for their work. Marks began her essay “Identity and Genocide: The Armenian

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

January 1, 2013 Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?”  It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in April of 2012 after winning second place in the Raphael Lemkin essay contest in March of the same year for my paper “Letters Written in Blood: the Holocaust in Poetry”. The fellowship application was for the

Holocaust and genocide studies. As they began taking classes for both, it was their minor that intrigued them and they soon realized they had a passion for Holocaust and genocide studies. Query is friends with Lindhartsen and saw firsthand how he was able to design an individualized major to reflect his specific interests. Thye reached out to Professor Lisa Marcus to discuss if they could do the same around their interest in Holocaust and genocide studies.PASSION BECOMES A PATHWAYDuring his junior year

Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, Center for Community Engagement and Service, ASPLU and Lute Vote. Ninth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education “Women and the Holocaust” Oct. 17-19 | All Day | Anderson University Center Featuring leading Holocaust researchers and historians from all over the country, the Ninth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will explore the many roles of women in Holocaust. Sponsored by the Holocaust and Genocide Studies program

year in grad school.  Carli completed two Kurt Mayer Holocaust Research Summer Fellowships at PLU and is continuing her research as she works toward her Ph.D. at the City University of New York Graduate Center [CUNY]. First, don’t forget that grad school can take you to exciting locations.  Carli had never visited New York City before she started at CUNY, but when she has some spare time away from studies, she greatly enjoys checking out many opportunities for adventure (and relaxation) Her

General of Germany (based in San Francisco) Rolf Schuette talk about Jewish-German relations at PLU. In addition to years of education and experience as a diplomat, before taking the San Francisco post in 2005, Schuette spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Fellow at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.C., the American Jewish Committee in New York and the Institute of European Studies in Berkeley. Some of his experience also includes work in Israel. “The Holocaust is still the