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  • PLU maintains an open door with a world superpower, empowering students to learn about politics and culture off the beaten path in a distinct region of the country.

    Chengdu Gateway do when they arrive on Wang’s side of the globe — explore the surroundings of their temporary home. The program includes intensive study tours, during which students visit Buddhist temples, monuments, rural farms and other culturally significant sites. “The study tour at the beginning exposes you to what China is before you actually have to sit down and start studying,” said Devon Johnson ’17, a mathematics major who studied in Chengdu in fall 2015. “It helps get all your excitement

  • Students are often requested to obtain letters of recommendation or references from faculty and/or staff members of the School of Nursing for scholarships, educational applications, employment, etc. Nursing students first should obtain consent from each faculty/staff member; faculty and staff may choose to decline the request at their discretion.

  • Knutson Lecture

    16th Annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture“Bonhoeffer, the Church, and the Climate Question”Rev. Dr. James B. Martin-Schramm '81 Tuesday, November 2, 2021 7:00pm (Pacific time) Zoom Webinar   Contact person: Dr. Agnes Choi, Chair of the Religion Department choiaa@plu.edu Free and Open to the Public Video of the LectureThe 16th annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture begins with Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s provocative 1933 essay on “The Church and the Jewish Question” and draws parallels to

  • 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…

    Jordan Levy: Anthropology and a Just Society Posted by: Zach Powers / November 15, 2019 Image: Professor Jordan Levy in front of the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Tacoma. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) November 15, 2019 By Lora ShinnGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsWhen 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

  • September 22, 2008 Prof appears on Discovery Channel this week Classics professor Eric Nelson will once again be featured in prime time, this time talking about torture, animals and the environment, all in the time of the Caesars. Nelson will be featured this week on a Discovery Channel program, “Machines of Malice,” which will first air Tuesday, Sept. 23. He will also be travelling to Vancouver today (Monday) to work on an Animal Planet program, Animal Gladiators. Both programs will look at

  • The PPA Program at Pacific Lutheran University is one of the longest running and most comprehensive undergraduate programs in publishing studies in North America.

    The Elliot Press in the News! PPA alumna Kristen Kendle has written a wonderful article for the South Sound Talk. Read More Type from the Thorniley type and printing press collection Welcome to Publishing and Printing Arts (PPA)Please click the links on the side for more information about the PPA Program at Pacific Lutheran University, one of the longest running and most comprehensive undergraduate programs in publishing studies in North America. We offer courses in the history of the book, the

    Publishing and Printing Arts
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    Department of English Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA 98447
  • While many of their classmates braved a chilly winter back in Parkland, three Lutes sat on a beach in Hawaii watching whales. No, it wasn’t vacation. It was research.

    opportunities to showcase student-faculty research. “It’s nice to put forth my research, voice my concerns, and show people topics they might not have thought about.” While many of their classmates braved a chilly winter back in Parkland, three Lutes sat on a beach in Hawaii and witnessed the incredible moment when a humpback whale taught her calf how to breach near the shore. No, it wasn’t vacation. It was research. The group of Pacific Lutheran University students — Mikaela Haglund ’19, Lexi Higgins ’19

  • By Michael Halvorson.  On October 17, 2017, PLU alum Brad Tilden (1983) engaged with students, faculty, and alumni in a lively conversation about the past, present, and future of Alaska Airlines. The special event was organized as the 13th annual Dale E. Benson lecture in…

    panel featuring Sergia Hay (Philosophy), Norris Peterson (Economics), Mark Mulder (Business), Bridgette O’Brien (Religion), and Michael Halvorson (History and Benson program chair).  Most of the faculty also work together in the school’s Innovation Studies and Environmental Studies programs. The conversation was thoughtful and wide-ranging, including student questions on the pending merger with Virgin America, competition with Delta Airlines, pilot shortages, the moral obligations of an airline to

  • Lute Faculty and Staff Support Network (FASSN) is a confidential, short-term, informal peer-mentoring program through which PLU faculty and staff can offer care to one another.

    going through similar experiences and have requested support. The matching process is designed to connect faculty and staff without needing to broadcast difficult personal issues to the entire PLU community. Some example life challenges that participants might discuss include, but are not limited to: aging parents illness retirement immigration first in the family divorce custody proceedings fertility issues pregnancy pregnancy loss other forms of grief/loss medical diagnoses (for oneself or a loved

  • Fr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., of the history department at Boston College will speak about his explorations of a heretofore unknown set of intelligence relationships involving Nazi, British, and

    “Righteous Among the Nations,” by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, for their role in saving Jews from the Nazis at considerable risks to themselves. Paldiel is currently teaching, in New York: at Yeshiva University-Stern College, New York – courses in Holocaust & Rescue, and History of Zionism; as well as Touro college, in Modern European History. He also taught at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey, and Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey. Dr. Paldiel has published numerous books and