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Mancke Sletten ‘75 and Elizabeth Mancke, in honor of their parents. The scholarship is intended to support students from Africa, or recent African immigrants, pursuing their degree at PLU. Mr. Halvar E. Olstead – Gordon O. Gilbertson Instrumental Music Education Scholarship – Alvina Hauf Olstead ’73 and Halvar Olstead ’71 established this scholarship in memory of their former professor of music, Gordon Gilbertson. Halvar played under Gordon in the band when Halvar was studying to become a public
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can integrate environmental awareness and culturally responsive pedagogies to our engagements with Austen in the classroom and the digital public sphere. Madeline Scully received a MSc in Gender, Peace and Security from the London School of Economics and Politic Science in 2021. She graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 2019 with a double major in English Literature and Global Studies (International Affairs emphasis) and a double minor in French and Women’s and Gender Studies. She has long
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Literacy has surveyed almost 21,000 students from community, public, and private colleges and universities in the US. Their findings show clear patterns in how students engage with information: Eighty percent of students reported having overwhelming difficulties with getting started on research assignments and determining the nature and scope of what their instructors required of them. Two-thirds of college students felt that defining a topic is a difficult task. Most students use risk-averse research
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interested in all aspects of German cultural and history. Her research and publications are focused on the role of the artist in public discourse in East and West Germany, as well as on the exhibition of contemporary art as a cultural and political force in the Cold War era and today. Her most recent work deals with contemporary art and cultural integration. PLU Faculty ProfileIn addition to teaching on topics such as gender issues, identity, and memory in modern and contemporary art, Heather is
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senior project on a mathematical topic of his or her choice. Students work closely with an individual faculty member on this project, which culminates in a public presentation and written report. All the reports are collected together and published within the mathematics department. Each year, teams of PLU students enter the Putnam Intercollegiate Mathematics Competition and the Mathematical Contest in Modeling. These competitions, in pure and applied mathematics, respectively, provide substantial
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annual summer concert series is FREE to the public, as it is PLU’s gift to the community. The series runs Thursdays, 7:00-9:00 p.m. for four weeks. This year, JUTS will be celebrating its 20th anniversary. The lineup for the 2018 series: July 19 – Jovino Santos-Neto July 26 – LaVon Hardison August 2 – David Deacon-Joyner August 9 – Tall and Small, Pete Christlieb and Linda Small Bring your lawn chairs and your picnic food. Free coffee is available and select wine, beer and snacks are available for
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, including providing period products in all public bathrooms and organizing more Spanish-first speaking engagements and spaces.Study away pulls it all togetherAsh’s journey through self-discovery at PLU included a switch in minors. Although she was originally minoring in chemistry, Ash made the switch to gender, sexuality, and race studies (GSRS) after the introductory class captured her attention. “I was able to look at the world in new ways and it really fascinated me,” says Ash. “It was definitely a
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the Seattle Public School District to middle school and elementary age children. “I like to say I walked across the stage twice,” she laughed. “My mother was pregnant with me when she graduated.” McIntyre auditioned on a whim. “I figured, why not?,” she laughed. And she was glad she did. “It was such an awesome experience, working with so many talented people of color,” she said. “It’s just like being at summer camp. Everyone is there with the same interest, and you’re not the odd duck anymore
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January 18, 2013 Bonnie Nelson ’08 on top of a bactrian camel in Mongolia. (Photo courtesy of Bonnie Nelson) A volunteer experience in an elementary school sets alum on path to Mongolia By Barbara Clements University Communications After growing up in a small town near Chehalis, Wash., Bonnie Nelson ’08 at first wanted to just “be a face” in the crowd, and chose to go to a large public state university, rather than Pacific Lutheran University. She soon realized this was a mistake. “I knew
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public, who seemed to have forgotten about the war. Pulling out those tattered and faded pieces of tape, Hrivnak said he had no idea just how bad the casualties of the campaign would be. After all, he’d been in peacekeeping missions before, in Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans and the first Gulf War. In the first Gulf War, he had memories of a quick deployment and few casualties, but this time was different, he said. This time, the casualties kept coming to overwhelmed nurses and doctors. The book talks
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