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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…

    Rick Barot and Ann Pancake Discuss PLU’s MFA in Creative Writing and the Impact of Creative Writing (Podcast) Posted by: Zach Powers / July 27, 2015 Image: MFA Director Rick Barot and MFA mentor & instructor Ann Pancake at KPLU’s recording studio in downtown Seattle. [Photo by Zach Powers/PLU] July 27, 2015 By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (July 27, 2015)- Known as the Rainier Writing Workshop (RWW), Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative

  • Government scientist shares passion for empowering women and minorities By Katie Scaff ’13 The science world needs more women , particularly in academic and research institutions, said government scientist Debra Rolison. “They’re too white — and too male,” said Rolison. “There’s a statistical imbalance between…

    September 7, 2012 Government scientist shares passion for empowering women and minorities By Katie Scaff ’13 The science world needs more women, particularly in academic and research institutions, said government scientist Debra Rolison. “They’re too white — and too male,” said Rolison. “There’s a statistical imbalance between women and men.” She argued for change in her field before students and professors at a seminar in Morken on PLU’s campus Friday afternoon. Scientist Debra Rolison spoke

  • Throughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more.

    About Powell-HellerThroughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more. Nancy was impressed by the students’ work, their passion and commitment to further study, and the professors and their work in the field. She recognized that the university was uniquely positioned to do more. Inspired by the life work of her father, Nancy, with the help of her sister Carol

  • Throughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more.

    About Powell-HellerThroughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more. Nancy was impressed by the students’ work, their passion and commitment to further study, and the professors and their work in the field. She recognized that the university was uniquely positioned to do more. Inspired by the life work of her father, Nancy, with the help of her sister Carol

  • Throughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more.

    About Powell-HellerThroughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more. Nancy was impressed by the students’ work, their passion and commitment to further study, and the professors and their work in the field. She recognized that the university was uniquely positioned to do more. Inspired by the life work of her father, Nancy, with the help of her sister Carol

  • The assignment helps writers imagine a sense of purpose for writing. When people write beyond school, their writing is driven by a need to communicate in order to evoke a specific response or to

    writing: a description, a comparison, etc. It is more realistic to imagine that a writer will utilize a variety of modes-description in conjunction with narration and persuasion-to achieve her or his aim.) Hand-in-hand with a sense of purpose is a sense of audience. If fact, real-life writing situations are often motivated first by the need to communicate with a specific group of people. Having a particular audience in mind when composing helps writers choose appropriate tone, style, and words, as

  • The Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture celebrates the life of an extraordinary public servant and former Peace Corps volunteer killed on September 11th, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya.

    About the Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial LectureThe Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture celebrates the life of an extraordinary public servant and former Peace Corps volunteer killed on September 11th, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. Supporting PLU’s vision for global education of “educating to achieve a just, healthy, sustainable and peaceful world”, the lecture seeks to build knowledge in the PLU community about the peoples of the Middle East, North Africa and the United States and

  • The Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture celebrates the life of an extraordinary public servant and former Peace Corps volunteer killed on September 11th, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya.

    About the Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial LectureThe Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture celebrates the life of an extraordinary public servant and former Peace Corps volunteer killed on September 11th, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. Supporting PLU’s vision for global education of “educating to achieve a just, healthy, sustainable and peaceful world”, the lecture seeks to build knowledge in the PLU community about the peoples of the Middle East, North Africa and the United States and

  • Confucius Institutes are a non-profit initiative of the Hanban, the executive body of the Chinese Language Council International, a non-governmental and non-profit organization affiliated to the

    learn the Chinese language, to enhancing understanding of the Chinese language and culture by these peoples, to strengthening educational and cultural exchange and cooperation between China and other countries, to deepening friendly relationships with other nations, to promoting the development of multi-culturalism, and to construct a harmonious world.” – Constitution of Confucius Institutes The Confucius Institute of the State of Washington (CIWA) is the first statewide Confucius Institute. It was

  • This fifth annual PLU Lutheran Studies Conference invites participants to consider the ancient legacy of Jewish and Christian separation; Christian sponsored anti-Judaism, especially as that polemic

    About the conferenceThis fifth annual conference invites participants to consider the ancient legacy of Jewish and Christian separation; Christian sponsored anti-Judaism, especially as that polemic appeared in the German reformer, Martin Luther; the artistic treasures shared by Jews and Christians; healing practices among Jews and Christians; and the re-shaping of this troubled relationship over the past 50 years through Lutheran and Jewish commitments to reconciliation. Let us be clear: some