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Pacific Lutheran University Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Tiffany Artime, Ph.D. has been approved for a $2.5M funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to disseminate and implement research findings on Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation with Narrative Therapy (STAIR-NT)…
Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to disseminate and implement research findings on Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation with Narrative Therapy (STAIR-NT) for PTSD in University Counseling Centers (UCCs). “We hope this implementation project will help to address the need for effective and efficient care for trauma-exposed students who are seeking services in over-burdened UCCs,” said Artime. “As the recipient of this funding, PLU will be able to lead this important work and
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John Evanishyn ‘21 grew up in Tacoma, exploring Point Defiance Park, Ruston Way waterfront and other urban green spaces. By high school, he had learned enough from his dad to become a skilled forager, someone who knew his capstones from his shaggy ink caps. (Those…
John Evanishyn ‘21 studied environmental science on campus—and in France and Costa Rica—during his four years at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / May 10, 2021 Image: John Evanishyn ‘21 on the CIEE (Council On International Educational Exchange) campus in San Luis Alto, Costa Rica. (Photos courtesy John Evanishyn.) May 10, 2021 By Ernest JasminPLU Marketing and Communications Guest WriterJohn Evanishyn ‘21 grew up in Tacoma, exploring Point Defiance Park, Ruston Way waterfront and other urban green
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The Spanish word, Duende (du-end-ay), has come to refer to the mysterious power that art has to deeply move a person. Soon-to-be graduates in the Department of Art and Design chose this word to rally around for their senior exhibition in the University Gallery, opening…
Student artists display work in culmination of degree program Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 20, 2017 March 20, 2017 By Mandi LeCompteOutreach ManagerThe Spanish word, Duende (du-end-ay), has come to refer to the mysterious power that art has to deeply move a person. Soon-to-be graduates in the Department of Art and Design chose this word to rally around for their senior exhibition in the University Gallery, opening April 19 from 5-7 p.m. The senior exhibition is open Monday – Friday, 8 a.m
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The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arizona is inviting students to one of their virtual graduate program informational events. The virtual visitation is designed to offer prospective graduate students, particularly those interested in a PhD, an opportunity to learn more about…
Graduate program in Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Arizona Posted by: alemanem / November 17, 2022 November 17, 2022 The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arizona is inviting students to one of their virtual graduate program informational events. The virtual visitation is designed to offer prospective graduate students, particularly those interested in a PhD, an opportunity to learn more about our campus, program, and Tucson, AZ. Thursday, November 17, 4:30
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Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?” It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust…
; rather, evil in the first wave of Holocaust literature is identified with a system of shadow and death. In the second mode, that shadow is personified, given a name, attached to a body, and called Eichmann, Goebbels, Globocnik, Heydrich, Himmler, Höss, and so on, or some fictionalized character based on these real people and so many more. Furthermore, the first mode is typically a survivor testimony or published early on in the chronology of Holocaust literature, where the second may be written by
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Aminda Cheney-Irgens is a smart, driven, and globally-minded Pacific Lutheran University senior who, like her peers, spent her spring adjusting to a new way of doing college. She’s learned to record Zoom lessons, sharpened her Google Docs skills, and misses the real-life campus interactions. She’s…
me about ways people perceive and interact with the environment and asked me to critically consider negative social externalities that arise from pollution and other concerns. I really enjoyed these classes but wanted the opportunity to take more math and science courses and ended up shifting the environmental studies degree to a minor and adding a chemistry major. The Hispanic Studies degree was really inspired by my high school Spanish teacher. I took AP Spanish 4 and 5 in high school and loved
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Interested in flavors and fragrance chemistry? Did you know that Washington is the top-producing spearmint and peppermint region in the world? I.P. Callison & Sons in Lacey, WA has recently announced that they have expanded their internship program. A current PLU chemistry student has already…
Lab internships in Lacey, WA in flavors and fragrance chemistry Posted by: yakelina / November 22, 2015 November 22, 2015 Interested in flavors and fragrance chemistry? Did you know that Washington is the top-producing spearmint and peppermint region in the world? I.P. Callison & Sons in Lacey, WA has recently announced that they have expanded their internship program. A current PLU chemistry student has already participated in this program and gained some really interesting insights into
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By Zach Powers ’10 PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (July 27, 2015)- Known as the Rainier Writing Workshop (RWW), Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program challenges its students to consider difficult questions relating to artistry, self-awareness and commission. “What are…
Writing program challenges its students to consider difficult questions relating to artistry, self-awareness and commission. “What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation about the urgent matters of our time? What is the work you want to do, the work that is specific to your experience, talent and imagination?” In the latest PLU podcast, we pose these questions and others to a pair of RWW faculty members and acclaimed creative writers, Rick
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When Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system. He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer work, and then returned annually throughout…
work, and then returned annually throughout undergraduate and graduate school for college-related studies and more volunteering. He even met his future wife there, in 2004. Today, Levy is a specialist in contemporary Honduras and an assistant professor in Pacific Lutheran University’s anthropology department. His research has focused on Honduran governance after the 2009 military coup and the outmigration patterns that followed. Recently, Levy provided pro bono expert witness testimony on behalf
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What role can the experience of art play in our understanding of the Holocaust? We attempt to answer this question Thursday, March 14 at 3:40pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall, as Assistant Professor Heather Mathews examines artworks as tools of empowerment. First we look at paintings…
performance of Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.” We’ll explore the individual empowerment of artists who are survivors and artworks made by sympathetic artists, which empower a society as a whole. In survivors’ artwork, they consider the ways their lives have been, and continue to be, impacted by the Holocaust as young children. “Such individual expressions—personal histories, memory of the losses endured—give a specificity to a crime that, at times, seems too vast for comprehension
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