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  • Maria Altmann worked for decades to reclaim five family owned portraits painted by Gustav Klimt for her family, including this portrait of her aunt,  Adele Bloch-Bauer. The painting had been shown in an Austrian art museum for years. Nazis had stolen the painting after Altmann…

    . Hitler’s anti-Semitism may be traced back to this rejection, since most of the jurors at the time in the school were Jewish. Most of the paintings he did manage to sell were bought by Jewish patrons. According to the Rape of Europa clips, Austrian art museums do have some of Hitler’s original works on hand, but they are considered too controversial and rarely, if ever displayed. Read Previous Visiting Writer’s Series – Eric Goodman Read Next Mathlete coaches teach students on cracking equations for

  • ‘My journey into compassion fatigue’ Editor’s note: In this story, Katie Scaff ’13 writes about her experiences creating the documentary Overexposed – an examination of compassion fatigue, with two other students and her communications professor. The faculty-student research project exposes students to the realities of…

    teammate, Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath ’12, was also changed by our research and experiences. “Through talking with experts and people who have experienced compassion fatigue, I learned that there is strength in recognizing when you need to take a break,” Herzfeldt-Kamprath said. “To work through your weakest time may prove to be harmful rather than helpful.” Read Previous Visiting Writer’s Series – Eric Goodman Read Next Mathlete coaches teach students on cracking equations for success COMMENTS*Note

  • By Michael Halvorson, Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History The following excerpts were gathered from an April 24, 2018 conversation between Michael Halvorson, PLU student Teresa Hackler, and Economics professor Karen Travis. Hackler and Travis completed a Benson Summer Research project together in…

    every student that she works with, but she is also hilarious!” Studying Healthcare Access Halvorson: “Dr. Travis, can you discuss the other type of research that you do? Or how this research fits into your teaching at PLU?” Travis: “My research has generally focused the economics of health care access. I’ve published on how physician payment and insurance structures have led to differential access for patients. One of these papers focused on prenatal care and another on inpatient psychiatric care

  • He was working by age 8, picking cherries and apples under the Yakima Valley sun. In the spring he worked as a smudger. He’d sleep overnight in an orchard and when the alarms rang he’d sprint to light the smudge pots that warmed the trees…

    . Yet, when he thinks back to 2015 and his earliest days at the university, he acknowledges things were different.  “I did not observe a place that was willing to consistently take bold financial risks on behalf of students,” he recalls.  In 2015, Belton left a senior vice president role at Bank of America to serve as PLU’s senior vice president and chief financial officer. A finance wiz at heart, he spent his first two years on campus laser-focused on the equations he was assigned — solving for