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Headed for a History Ph.D. – Updates from an Alum Posted by: shimkojm / December 11, 2019 Image: Carli at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC, with friends Celia (center) and Joy (right). Celia survived Nazi occupation in WWII by pretending to be a Polish Catholic child. December 11, 2019 By Carli Snyder, ’17, and Beth Kraig, Professor of HistoryFirst, we are glad that you chose PLU. Our mission is to prepare students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care – and we
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. Browning’s 1992 publication “Ordinary Men,” is considered one of the leading texts in the field of Holocaust studies. Publication of this and other works brought accolades to Browning and PLU – for one, Browning was named as a visiting scholar at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Browning has since moved on to become the coveted chair in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but his legacy continues
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Community Learning Through Endowed LecturesEach year, the Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture is arranged by the Scandinavian Area Studies program. This endowed lecture series, made possible by generous donations by descendants of PLU’s first president and friends of the Harstad family, offers the campus and local community a diverse range of topics intended to further our understanding of Scandinavian culture and society. Topics in recent years have included migrant literature of Norway, the
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WSEHA 2021 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP Posted by: alemanem / April 9, 2021 April 9, 2021 The Washington State Environmental Health Association (WSEHA) is pleased to announce the availability of the 2021 Cind M. Treser Memorial Student Scholarship. The scholarship fund will award up to $5,000 in one or more scholarship awards this year. The Cind M. Treser Scholarship program was instituted to provide recognition and a financial incentive for undergraduate students majoring in environmental health (or
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schools, his mother said. Both schools educate students from a diverse socioeconomic spectrum. “He became really involved with the children,” Georgia said. “It broke his heart that some of the students wouldn’t have the school supplies they needed throughout the whole year. He always bought school supplies with his own money.” The family drew from Panago’s passion for his memorial, requesting attendees donate school supplies and money for school lunches in lieu of flowers or gifts. But they knew the
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Museum Day Live! in 2016. By communicating the topical diversity of the field and the racial, ethnic and cultural diversity of psychologists themselves, we are encouraging young women and girls of color, and all visitors, to consider careers in psychology, use psychology to improve their daily lives and create positive social change in their communities, and to be excited by the museum experience.” To learn more about the history of the exhibit, visit APA’s website. Read Previous PLU’s Diversity
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Irving vs. Penguin and Lipstadt (1998-2001). His forensic work on the crematoria of Auschwitz generated The Evidence Room installation, shown first at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, in 2017 at the Royal Ontario Museun in Toronto, and in 2019 at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. Van Pelt is the Chief Curator of the international traveling exhibtion Auschwitz. No hace mucho. No muy lejos (Auschwitz. Not Far Away. Not Long Ago) which opened in Madrid in 2017 and in New York in 2019. This
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Microplastic Debris in Puget Sound and Neighboring Waters” – Regency Room, UC Speaker: Julie Masura, faculty and research scientist, environmental science, Center for Urban Water, University of Washington Tacoma 1B) “Science on the Sea: Get Your feet Wet and ‘Discover by Doing'” – Room 201, UC Speakers: Jan Adams, Foss Waterway Seaport Museum; Madhuri Hosford, Foss Waterway Seaport Museum; Bonnie Beaudoin, Foss Waterway Seaport Museum 1C) “Oaxaca: Water and Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities” – Room
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October 29, 2012 For the Tacoma Art Museum’s Day of the Dead exhibit, PLU students built an altar to remember and celebrate the lives of women who have died in Juarez, Mexico. (Photos by John Struzenberg ’15) Dia de los Muertos By Chris Albert The Tacoma Art Museum is expecting a few extra guests from beyond the grave for Day of the Dead – Dia de los Muertos. The museum is hosting a celebration of Day of the Dead by inviting more than 20 community groups – including PLU students – to build
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Advice for first-year students: Create a study space and routine Posted by: vcraker / July 12, 2022 July 12, 2022 Alina Boorse ’25 shares her experience as a first-year student and offers advice to future students. Read Previous Advice for first-year students: Communicate with your professors Read Next PLU places second in National Science Foundation’s COVID-19 Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Challenge. LATEST POSTS Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon
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