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want to learn to make it and I can’t find the resource for it, I just look it up on YouTube.” Since Ragoonanan has been studying at PLU, he has self-designed and hand-made costumes for each year of his dance ensemble production. Not only has his work added diversity to the show; it also has enriched the audience’s cultural experience. Dance 2014 When: 7:30 p.m. April 11 and 12 Where: Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Tickets: $8 general admission/$5 senior citizens and alumni/$3

context of climate change. “Fast into the Night” was Moderow’s thesis. She said she developed her voice and found her identity as a writer during her time at PLU. Moderow’s said her education set her on the path to literary success. “I’m a writer because of that program,” Moderow said. “I can call myself a writer – I’m a published author – because of that program.” Read Previous PLU Teaching Online program incorporates technology into learning, enhances brick-and-mortar experience Read Next PLU

Dr. Darrell Jodock to speak to Lutes about inspiring racial justice through the Lutheran tradition Posted by: Kari Plog / March 3, 2016 March 3, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 3, 2016)- Dr. Darrell Jodock says Martin Luther had a different understanding of God; one that’s grounded, not predetermined. “God is up to something and invites you to participate in that work,” said Jodock, Bernhardson chair in Lutheran studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St

is sponsored by PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor, which includes the Kurt Mayer Endowed Chair in Holocaust Studies and the annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. (In Fall 2014, PLU became one of only a handful of universities nationwide to offer a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.) The debaters’ visit follows PLU’s October 2014 standing-room-only screening of Sweet Dreams, a documentary about Rwandan women working to rebuild their lives in the wake of the 1994

nearly two decades. But in that time Bryn, Ph.D., also has taught in PLU’s communication department, supported Fulbright scholars, hosted study away students and peace scholars, and supported faculty research. Communication & TheatreVisit for more information about PLU's Department of Communication & Theatre.Now, Bryn will build upon his campus connections and speak about his longtime peacebuilding work on Feb. 17 at 6 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center.  The event, “10 Lessons from 20 Years of

stimulated more than defined further work in this field. A number of recently founded journals now specialize in addressing issues raised by the interpenetration of history and narrative, including New Literary History, Representations, Clio, and History and Theory. A “narrativist philosophy of history” (the phrase is F. B. Ankersmit’s) has thus constituted itself in the last quarter-century as a new school of interpretation in the field of philosophy of history. The situation has reached a point at

with strong bonds to fundamentalist and Pentecostal subcultures, many of which traditionally have focused their identity around intentional resistance to new ways of thinking. Secondly, the dominant student culture at PLU is relentlessly anti-intellectual. Both factors militate against the purposes of the liberal arts and the mission of the university. PLU’s credibility as a university in the twenty-first century will depend in large part on the way faculty, students, and administrators handle

Studies at Pacific Lutheran University, is one of three national winners of the first-ever Why We Care Youth: Emerging Leaders for Reproductive Rights contest. Winning entries were chosen in three categories: short video, photo essay and written essay. Wood, from Bellingham, Wash., won the video category of the contest, founded by The United Nations Foundation’s Universal Access Project in partnership with Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Sierra Club. The three winners now will have

speak to that other than living in rural areas … and I felt that would be an opportunity to address health disparities, kind of merging health equity and cultural humility,” Chell says. “Also growing up in South Dakota, I felt pretty ignorant to the native nations in my home state. So, I knew it would also be an opportunity to learn a lot more about these marginalized communities.” Chell worked as a health systems coordinator providing a variety of support to the program. This wasn’t the first time

 ’01, the sold out 125th Anniversary Gala Christmas Concert was performed at Lagerquist Concert Hall on Friday, Dec. 11.25th Annual WinterfestOn Saturday, Dec. 12 over 350 volunteers joined PLU CCES in welcoming 827 local Parkland, Tacoma and Spanaway children and their families to East Campus and presenting them with coats, socks, toys, games, arts and crafts, and a visit from Santa.Sankta Lucia FestOn Saturday, Dec. 12 the Scandinavian Cultural Center presented the Sankta Lucia Festival. Students