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) Altmann, paused. “Times changed,” said the retired businessman as he recounted his family’s history and his mother’s fight to return the paintings to the family. Once the Nazis invaded, Peter Altmann said, and the Reich simply took the paintings. The concern for the Bloch-Bauers and for newlywed Maria, and her husband Fritz Altmann, was simply to escape the country alive. Maria Altmann kept the stocking she tore as she climbed over the barbed wire into Holland through the assistance of the
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worthwhile aspects of our work, innovating new ways to achieve our mission: educating students to engage—creatively, critically, and empathetically—with what it means to be human across the sweep of history, in diverse cultures and environments.Associate Professor of Religion Erik Hammerstrom re-imagined a concluding assignment for his course on the Religions of China to re-create a debate from the throne room of Emperor Wuzong in the year 841. The debate concerned how to balance Daoist, Buddhist, and
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requirements for controlling radiation in storage, decontamination, and control points of activity. You will perform and interpret air, water and surface radiation surveys. You will maintain surveillance over contaminated tool, equipment and storage areas. You will maintain required Shipyard and radiological control technician qualifications as directed. View the job posting here: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/573611700 Read Previous Green Chemistry & Engineering Internship grant Read Next
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Washington to the list), I’m hopeful that research projects will also be funded in associated disciplines, including mathematics, electrical engineering, acoustics, statistics, psychology, philosophy, business—even historical studies examining the impact of voice technologies on culture and society. For a look at what PLU students are doing currently in machine learning and biology research, check out this video of Dr. Renzhi Cao’s computer science class this past year. There are so many good
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Washington Sea Grant Graduate Science Communications Fellowship Posted by: nicolacs / December 17, 2020 December 17, 2020 Washington Sea Grant offers two Science Communications Fellowships: one for graduate students and one for undergraduate students. WSG fellows work for two academic quarters on a range of communications projects, from writing articles for the Sea Star newsletter to developing web content. Fellows are given the opportunity to develop their portfolios as writers and
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TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 24, 2015)—On Sept. 21, I had the immense privilege of meeting and getting to know members of the iDebate Rwanda team. Although it is always an honor to spend time with international guests, their visit was of special importance to me as…
guests, their visit was of special importance to me as I prepare to leave for Kigali, Rwanda, in January. Members of iDebate Rwanda meet students in PLU’s Diversity Center.. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) As a student of History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies, I have long been fascinated by Rwanda’s past and culture, so the opportunity to hear firsthand the stories of Rwandans was one that I did not take lightly. After a rigorous application process, these four students won a competition through an
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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 3, 2017)- You know it’s a good class when even the professor goes home shouting: “You’re not going to believe what we learned today!” Joanna Gregson, professor of sociology, says she told her husband just that throughout her January Term course “Policing…
, ethics and discretion, race and policing, and use of force. “I can only speak to these areas to a certain degree,” Premo said, “so having someone who works directly in that specialty area gives the students an opportunity to ask questions to someone currently working in that area.” The roughly 20 students enrolled in the class claimed a variety of majors — including those outside sociology — such as communication, computer science, psychology and music. Mitch Perantie ’19, who intends to major in
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for them to enter graduate programs that build on their quality undergraduate foundations.” The agreement will streamline the process for PLU alumni applying for admission to Puget Sound’s Master in Public Health and Master of Education in counseling programs. Likewise, the agreement will streamline the process for Puget Sound alumni applying to PLU’s Master in Business Administration, Master of Science in Marketing Analytics, and Master of Science in Kinesiology programs. “For more than 100 years
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.) “I would like to thank President Belton and the hiring committee for this opportunity,” said Snyder. “My family and I are thrilled to join the Lute community and cannot wait to get to know all the student-athletes, alumni, staff, and faculty who make PLU such a wonderful institution.” “When I look at Pacific Lutheran, I see a long and storied history of athletic success across multiple sports. This foundation has been built on the legacy of our alumni, and I look forward to partnering with them
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commonly, Black people appeared in the background of portraits by white artists as exotic subjects. A notable exception being Josiah Wedgwood’s “Am I not a man and a brother” emblem first appearing in 1787 for use in the abolitionist movement.Black agency was rarely conveyed in European portraiture. Georgiana’s portrait is meant to rewrite, or rather, repaint this history, and the portrait itself is likely conversant with one of Georgiana’s real-life historical contemporaries, Dido Elizabeth Belle
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