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  • Locals embrace Lutes as they meet living legends, learn about vibrant events such as Carnival and Panorama, and develop valuable racial consciousness within a multicultural society that celebrates

    and learning about our country and our history, in a deeper way than even locals,” Hughes said, on a warm and breezy day in the Caribbean last year. “So, they decided to put locals in the program with the PLU students.” (Video by Rustin Dwyer, PLU) That’s when Hughes started to look beyond her rudimentary understanding of Trinidadian traditions she thought she knew so well. “When you live in a place, you don’t question things,” Hughes said. “Before I got involved in this program, I didn’t even

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 22, 2015)- Members of the Pacific Lutheran University community have the unique opportunity to learn about the AIDS epidemic through theatre. The one-man show “My Brother Kissed Mark Zuckerberg” will be performed in the Karen Hille Phillips Studio Theater at 7 p.m.…

    him construct his story. Serko crossed paths with the PLU community when Professor of Music Greg Youtz introduced him to interested faculty and staff. This group began a discussion about bringing Serko to PLU to “engage students around gender, AIDS and activism,” says Jonathan Yglesias, Director of the PLU Men’s Project, the primary organization responsible for the event. “While PLU has a lot of robust and wonderful work around gender, sexuality and LGBTQ activism happening on campus, there also

  • exhibit at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum featuring the photo selections from the competition. The global competition consists of about 21,000 entries with about 100 selected as “Highly Honored.” About 40 will be included in the exhibit. The contest is sponsored by Nature’s Best Photography Magazine. Bergman’s photo was published in the November 2011 issue. Read Previous Mathlete coaches teach students on cracking equations for success Read Next A final address COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

  • By Sarah Cornell-Maier ‘19.  This Fall, Pacific Lutheran University is introducing a new class that serves as a gateway to the Innovation Studies Program . Hist/Phil 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society is a team-taught course that combines many different fields of study into one. It…

    into one. Students register for the History 248 section (led by Michael Halvorson) or the Philosophy 248 section (led by Michael Schleeter), but the sections always meet together and the students work on shared assignments. This multi-disciplinary collaboration allows students to get two professors for the price of one, and they also encounter diverse perspectives in the classroom on a daily basis. Learning through multiple perspectives isn’t necessarily more difficult, but it feels more relevant

  • Black History Month: Seeking (a Supreme Court) Justice Posted by: Holly Senn / February 2, 2022 February 2, 2022 (CNN)- President Joe Biden committed to nominating the nation’s first Black female Supreme Court justice, as he honored retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at the White House on Thursday. “The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the

  • July 11, 2013 Diving in to “Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis” For the past year and a half, MediaLab students Haley Huntington, Kortney Scroger, Valery Jorgensen and Katie Baumann have traveled throughout North America documenting the importance of water and perils facing our world’s most important natural resource. By Katie Baumann ’14 Water does not have feelings. This massive force of nature does not have a conscience. Water does not feel remorse when it washes away entire

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2016)- Senior Tyler Dobies and first-year Caitlin Johnston say spring break changed their lives. While some Pacific Lutheran University students may have gone on vacation or had fun in the sun, other Lutes – like Johnston and Dobies – were busy…

    Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. In partnership with the PLU Diversity Center, the trip sent eight students to Georgia and South Carolina to study environmental justice in a civil rights context. The trip focused largely on the history of racism and slavery, the importance of primary resources in an economic context and modern devices in society that unjustly divide people into different socioeconomic and racial areas. “The whole experience was very meaningful,” Dobies said. “It put

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 28, 2015)—In eighth grade, Annika Smith-Ortiz ‘19 competed in a distance-kicking competition during gym class. Now, she’s competing with Pacific Lutheran University’s football team as its first female player. Photo: Matthew Salzano ’18 After playing Junior Varsity and Varsity games at Edina…

    meetings we have.” For her, the PLU football family has been accepting, and there was never a discussion about her gender; she is simply a member of the team. “This team is very different,” Smith-Ortiz said. “Everyone here plays for the heart, and it’s a real team.” In addition to making history at PLU, Smith-Ortiz also has high hopes for life after college. Currently studying Pre-Med and a member of The Reserve of Officers Training (ROTC) at PLU, she plans on becoming an Army surgeon and serving her

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 27, 2016)- Hosted by the Pacific Lutheran University Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and featuring Holocaust researchers and historians from all over the country, the ninth annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will explore “Women and the Holocaust” Oct. 17-19 at…

    explore “Women and the Holocaust” Oct. 17-19 at PLU.“We’re going to specifically focus on how women’s experiences, because of their gender, were different from that of men,” said conference organizer and PLU history professor Beth Griech-Polelle. “If we really want to capture the historical moment and time of the holocaust, it’s not enough to leave women out of the story.” Griech-Polelle, who serves as the Kurt Mayer chair in Holocaust studies at PLU, says that only recently did the field of Holocaust