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  • Thursday, September 24, 2015 Tikkun Olam: The Legacy and Future of Jewish – Christian RelationsFifth Annual Lutheran Studies Conference at PLU – Thursday, September 24, 2015 The year 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the execution of German and other European Lutherans who resisted the National Socialist regime. Such an anniversary invites the university and larger community to consider a relationship marked by polemic, persecution, tolerance

    Dr. Samuel Torvend, University Chair in Lutheran Studies
  • Information, Technology and Leadership: an interview with Port of Tacoma’s Mark Miller ’88 Posted by: nicolacs / October 24, 2022 Image: Image: PLU alumnus Mark Miller ’88 is the director of information technology at the Port of Tacoma. October 24, 2022 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsWhen Mark Miller ’88 enrolled at PLU he planned to become a math teacher, but he soon discovered he had a passion for technology and business. He’s followed that passion ever since. His career in

  • Friends University, a liberal arts Quaker University. For my doctorate, I attended Washington State University and received my degree in 2020. I specialized in World History, West Africa, and Middle East History. My dissertation examined the transmission of firearm technology into West Africa and argued that West Africans (Africans in general) were aware of firearm technology at least 125 years earlier than Europeans.  It also pointed out that the reason West Africans adapted the technology but did

  • disruption news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Can the Innovation Studies minor help you to be more (well…) innovative? By Damian Alessandro. Innovation .  If you read the popular press, you’ll see that this word is constantly thrown around in professional settings. But what does it mean? For some, innovation is all about progression and disruption. One of the defining ideologies of our time,… November 8, 2017 Damian Alessandrodisruptionentrepreneurial thinkinghistory of technologyInnovation minorinterdisciplinary

  • Adolphus College. Adam Blackler, “For Land and Life”: Outposts of the German Empire after World War One Dr. Adam Blackler is Associate Professor of History at University of Wyoming Convener: Dr. Heather Mathews, Chair, Associate Professor of Art & Design, Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies 11:45 - 12:00 p.m. – Break 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. – Lunch, AUC Chris KnutzenPresentations by Mayer Summer Research Fellows Austin Karr, “Slovakia and the Inability to Confront the

  • Film and Media Studies. Courses, which will be available for registration April 16-27, launch in fall 2018.The new concentration consists of up to 44 credit hours in core communication courses, as well as classes in theory, criticism, research and media production, all of which aim to engage students with interests in various types of media, including television, narrative and documentary filmmaking, advertising and marketing, and more. Amy Young, department chair and associate professor of

  • University, who will speak on the role gospel music in African American theology, history and liberation movements. Dr. Richard Nance, Director of the Choir of the West at Pacific Lutheran University, will present on the unique and influential history of choral music in our Lutheran colleges and universities in the United States. The PLU Choir of the West will join us for a Hymn Festival in Lagerquist Concert hall, led by Paul Tegels, University Organist at PLU, featuring song and narrative about

  • history, the history of Auschwitz, the history of the Holocaust, Jewish refugees, and Holocaust denial. At this time he is writing a book on the history of the concentration camp barrack. Robert Jan van Pelt An internationally recognized authority on the history of Auschwitz, van Pelt’s work was featured in the BBC-Horizon programme “Blueprints of Genocide,” and he acted as a senior consultant to the BBC/PBS series Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. Van Pelt chaired the University of Waterloo School of

  • Telemental Health (TMH) Informed Consent (pdf) view download PLU’s Counseling Center is offering Telemental Health (TMH) counseling services for students residing in Washington state, due to licensing restrictions.  Information about Telemental Health is provided here, and for clients who desire to use the service, consent is required.

  • Alice Steinglass news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Alice Steinglass Visits October 9 for Workshop and Lecture Computer science drives innovation throughout the US economy, but the subject remains neglected or marginalized in K-12 education. Can more be done to improve student access to this important way of thinking? Please join Alice Steinglass of Code.org  on October 9, 2018 at Pacific Lutheran… October 1, 2018 Alice SteinglassCode.orgcomputer science educationDale E. Benson Lectureinnovation studies