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Taking Sides on the Opium War Chinese students and Lutes hold heated debate on still-hot topic By Mahlon Meyer PLU Visiting Assistant Professor of History Winners of the 2013 China Open international college debate tournament visited PLU on Feb. 25 and joined Modern Chinese History…
March 4, 2014 Taking Sides on the Opium War Chinese students and Lutes hold heated debate on still-hot topic By Mahlon Meyer PLU Visiting Assistant Professor of History Winners of the 2013 China Open international college debate tournament visited PLU on Feb. 25 and joined Modern Chinese History students in a heated debate over the West’s invasion of China in the 19th Century. “The topic was, Was China to blame for the Opium War?,” said PLU Visiting Assistant Professor Mahlon Meyer, whose class
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TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 17, 2015)— Chinese President Xi Jinping is coming to Tacoma on Sept. 23—and Pacific Lutheran University Professor of Music Greg Youtz is playing a significant role in the international event. As chair of the Tacoma-Fuzhou Sister City Committee, Youtz was instrumental in…
PLU Music Professor Plays Instrumental Role in Chinese President’s Visit to Tacoma Posted by: Sandy Dunham / September 17, 2015 Image: PLU Professor of Music Greg Youtz (back row, second from left) joins elected officials and community leaders in welcoming the Honorable Qiu Yuan Ping, Minister of Overseas Chinese Commission (front row, fourth from left), to Tacoma’s Chinese Reconciliation Park. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) September 17, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing
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As a child, Matt Bliss ’98 relished celebrating the holidays at his grandparents’ Broomfield, Colorado, home where the Christmas tree was anything but ordinary. Bliss’s grandfather, Lawrence Stoecker, designed his own tree, an artful cascade of concentric rings that hung from the ceiling. He crafted…
How Matt Bliss ’98 turned a family tradition into Modern Christmas Trees Posted by: Silong Chhun / November 18, 2020 Image: Alumnus Matt Bliss ’98 (photo by JC Buck) November 18, 2020 By Kat BrazPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterAs a child, Matt Bliss ’98 relished celebrating the holidays at his grandparents’ Broomfield, Colorado, home where the Christmas tree was anything but ordinary. Bliss’s grandfather, Lawrence Stoecker, designed his own tree, an artful cascade of concentric rings
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The Center for the Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD) focuses on optoelectronic and quantum research primarily in the areas of chemistry, physics, and engineering. Our goal is to transform quantum optoelectronics by developing atomically-precise semiconductor materials and additive manufacturing processes. Students who…
IMOD Summer Research Opportunity for Undergrads Posted by: nicolacs / October 17, 2024 October 17, 2024 The Center for the Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD) focuses on optoelectronic and quantum research primarily in the areas of chemistry, physics, and engineering. Our goal is to transform quantum optoelectronics by developing atomically-precise semiconductor materials and additive manufacturing processes. Students who attend receive a competitive stipend ($7000
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The Center for the Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD) focuses on optoelectronic and quantum research primarily in the areas of chemistry, physics, and engineering. Our goal is to transform quantum optoelectronics by developing atomically-precise semiconductor materials and additive manufacturing processes. Students who…
IMOD Summer Research Opportunity for Undergrads Posted by: nicolacs / October 17, 2024 October 17, 2024 The Center for the Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD) focuses on optoelectronic and quantum research primarily in the areas of chemistry, physics, and engineering. Our goal is to transform quantum optoelectronics by developing atomically-precise semiconductor materials and additive manufacturing processes. Students who attend receive a competitive stipend ($7000
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TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 15, 2018) — Hannah Park ’20, an English major at Pacific Lutheran University, is used to translating. The youngest of her siblings, Park says she naturally fell into the role once she was the only one home with her Korean mother, who…
STARTALK program prepares Lutes and other educators across the state to teach Korean, Chinese Posted by: Kari Plog / August 15, 2018 Image: A STARTALK teacher runs through a Chinese-language lesson plan. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) August 15, 2018 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 15, 2018) — Hannah Park ’20, an English major at Pacific Lutheran University, is used to translating. The youngest of her siblings, Park says she naturally fell into the role once
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Where can a liberal arts degree in Music Composition lead you? In my case it has led to a life of travel, study, program development, tour-guiding, international relations and eventually a handshake with the President of China. Here’s the tale. TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 29, 2015)—The…
Dr. Gregory Youtz: A Front-Row Seat (Almost Literally!) to the Chinese President’s Tacoma Visit Posted by: Sandy Dunham / September 29, 2015 Image: PLU Professor of Music Gregory Youtz, left, greets Qiu Yuan Ping, Minister of Overseas Chinese Commission, China State Department, at the Chinese Reconciliation Park in Tacoma on Sept. 21. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) September 29, 2015 Where can a liberal arts degree in Music Composition lead you? In my case it has led to a life of travel, study
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Originally Published in 1990 It would appear that Louis XIV never said: “L’ état, c’est moi.” The researches of modern historians have produced no credible witness attesting that France’s Sun King pronounced this coldly witty laconism. But just try to find a modern history of…
Should History Tell a Story? Posted by: alex.reed / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 By Mark JensenOriginally Published in 1990It would appear that Louis XIV never said: “L’état, c’est moi.” The researches of modern historians have produced no credible witness attesting that France’s Sun King pronounced this coldly witty laconism. But just try to find a modern history of seventeenth-century France in which it is not mentioned. “If he did not say ‘I am the state,’ it is only because it went without
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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…
New Century, Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation, Language for a New Century and The Best American Poetry 2012. Ann Pancake, who teaches and serves as a mentor for the RWW, is a fiction writer, journalist and essayist. She recently was nominated for a Genius Award in Literature by Seattle’s leading alternative newspaper, The Stranger. Pancake’s most recent book is Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley (Counterpoint 2015). Her first novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been (Counterpoint 2007
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As a professor in the Department of Languages and Literature, Dr. Collin Brown teaches Norwegian language and Nordic studies at Pacific Lutheran University. However, his love for his work runs so deep, he also started and manages a club called “The Dead Languages Society.” As…
The Importance of Dead Languages Posted by: hoskinsk / May 6, 2020 Image: Beowulf manuscript May 6, 2020 By Reece Schatz '22English MajorAs a professor in the Department of Languages and Literature, Dr. Collin Brown teaches Norwegian language and Nordic studies at Pacific Lutheran University. However, his love for his work runs so deep, he also started and manages a club called “The Dead Languages Society.”As a member of this club myself, allow me to explain what we do. The Dead Languages
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