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& Indigenous StudiesIntroduces students to the scope, methodologies, and intellectual traditions of Native American and Indigenous Studies, focusing on such topics as Indigeneity, settler colonialism, sovereignty, resilience, and the intersectionality of Indigeneity with gender and sexuality. May include community-based service learning components. (4)NAIS 363Race and IndigeneityThis course examines ways that settler colonial ideologies of race have been developed and applied to Indigenous. Relying on
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PM | EASTVOLD AUDITORIUM - KAREN HILLE PHILLIPS CENTER, PLU Thanks to a generous endowment established by PLU alumnus Dr. Richard Weathermon ’50, the Dick and Helen Weathermon Joyful Noise Endowment for jazz studies created an annual two-day artist-in-residence program. Each year, this endowment allows us to bring a renowned jazz artist to campus to perform with the University Jazz Ensemble and a select local high school jazz band, to lead rehearsals and public master classes, and participate in
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TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 27, 2017)- The third biennial Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture will be held at 7 p.m. on March 1 in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at Pacific Lutheran University. Shamil Idriss, a global leader in diplomacy and global…
curiosity about the rest of the world.” As CEO of Soliya, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to cross-cultural engagement, from 2008-2014, Idriss worked closely with family members of Ambassador Stevens and the Obama administration to establish the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative. “I feel as though I’m one of the few people who didn’t know him,” Idriss says of Stevens. “It’s extraordinary how many people I’ve talked to who came into direct contact with him and on whom
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the terminal alkene. Cells with the SSL1&3 genes gave off detectable fluorescence while cells expressing squalene synthase and empty vectors did not. 3:10-3:20 - Break3:20 pm - Effects of 3,5-dimethylphenylthiocarbamate on Optical Properties of CdSe Quantum Dots Victoria Popovich, Senior Capstone Seminar In this work, we explored effects of the 3,5-dimethylphenyldithiocarbamate (DMPTC) ligand on the optical properties of CdSe quantum dots (QDs). We found that ligand exchange with DMPTC causes
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The Language Resource Center is a multimedia center located in Hong International Hall, designed to serve as a virtual and physical hub of international studies across the campus of Pacific Lutheran
Language Resource CenterThe Language Resource Center is a center for all students located in Kreidler Hall as part of the Global Community, designed to serve as a virtual and physical hub of international studies across the campus of Pacific Lutheran University. Our mission: To provide a welcoming environment and learning resources that facilitate and promote the research and study of the world’s languages and cultures. We have student tutors (free!) through Knack available for
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Lutes are dedicated to global education, and student athletes are no different. This fall, two Lutes who studied in Norway managed to balance their studies and training abroad, while PLU welcomed
pair studied international relations as well as peace and conflict studies. Throughout fall semester, they stuck to the regular workout plan sent by head rowing coach Andy Foltz. “That’s nice because I don’t have to modify,” Ivey said. The erg — short for ergometer — was one of the many ways Ivey stayed fit in preparation for the spring rowing season that sneaked up on her shortly after she returned to PLU in January. In addition to following the coach’s workouts, she ran around the city and lifted
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Immersive experience in classrooms on the other side of the world teach PLU students how to learn on the fly, one of many skills they bring home with them.
shuttered businesses. (Video by Rustin Dwyer, PLU) “We got there on a Sunday morning in January and everything was closed,” Allison recalled with a chuckle, side-eying her now husband about his idea to jaunt away from the group to Wiesbaden, Germany. “Everyone else had a good time in Frankfurt,” Sam quipped in response. It took four days for Sam and Allison’s relationship to bloom. Five years later, they’re happily married and fondly recall their studies in Namibia’s capital city. One of them continues
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PLU’s latest Fulbrights are delving into indigenous studies research, education Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / April 10, 2019 Image: Wendy Call, left, and Kaja Gjelde Bennett ’17, PLU’s latest recipients of Fulbright grants, both have chosen to use this opportunity to pursue Indigenous Studies work. April 10, 2019 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (April 4, 2019) — Pacific Lutheran University has a proud history of producing Fulbrights. The 2018-19 recipients are
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Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war.
the world and more. This year’s laureate focuses her work on clean water and sanitation projects in rural Bolivia. Pennye Nixon is founder and director of operations for Etta Projects, an organization created in memory of her daughter, who died when she was 16 in a bus crash in Bolivia just three months into her Rotary International exchange program. Nixon believes that quality health care and sanitation create peaceful conditions, in which stable communities can progress and grow. “Peace is the
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