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As a first-year student, the initial adjustment to life at PLU was challenging for Mark Hernández. They’d attended a high school that was over 90 percent students of color. PLU, which is around 40 percent, felt daunting. “I was so culture-shocked at not seeing people…
changing lives. “There are so many nonprofits in Tacoma doing a lot of amazing work,” Hernández says. However, don’t be too surprised to run into them in the halls of academia again, in a few years. “Although I’d like to be done with assignments and essays, I love learning too much.” Further education in visual rhetoric or the intersection of media and law both are both possibilities.Advice to New Students What would Hernandez suggest to a younger version of himself? Slow down, and take time to
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Sophia Barro ’22 is a senior education major and religion minor at PLU. She recently completed full-time student teaching at Lakeview Hope Academy. We spoke with Barro about her experiences at PLU and as a student teacher, and about the values she hopes to inspire…
and a multi-modal approach to working with MLL students. These strategies utilize visual thinking, and what the students already know and wonder about to facilitate meaningful conversations. One of my favorite things that I did with my students was introduce new “words of the week.” My students had various home languages. I would introduce a new word in one of these languages during carpet time and ask them to try using it throughout the week. It became a norm in the classroom to embrace these
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The PLU Psychology colloquium series aims to provide PLU students, faculty and staff rich, meaningful exposure to the state of the art in research in psychology.
Speakers2023-2024 Colloquium Speakers DateSpeaker NameTitleAffiliation April 5, 2024Joshua Parmenter, Ph.D.“It Takes a Village: Experiences of Intersectional Resilience and Liberation among Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous, and People of Color"University of Missouri March 1, 2024Elizabeth Wakefield, Ph.D."Unpacking the Role Visual Attention Plays in How we Learn from Gesture"Loyola University, Chicago February 23, 2024Carly Leonard, Ph.D."Why dwell on it? Understanding variability in fixation duration
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Learning perspectives About a dozen students silently sit in a semicircle around a Makah woman, as she shows them how to make a cedar bracelet. Students mimic her as she holds several foot-long strands of cedar bark strung out from her mouth to her hands.…
understanding of how important it is to us to preserve our culture and we do that in many ways,” she said. Although the PLU program is helpful for outsiders, many of the Makah’s programs are geared toward teaching their own community. From the tangible, like basket weaving, to in-depth storytelling that teaches a lesson, is a lesson unto itself and expresses the rich heritage of the Makah people. That hope is what Huelsbeck tries to teach in the way of voice and authority. Every individual has a voice or an
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Semester-long Themed Events Begin Feb. 12 “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”—the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)—The semester beginning Feb. 4 at Pacific Lutheran University takes on a special focus…
: Visibility and Empathy. Part of the 2015 SOAC Focus Series: Perspective, this panel explores the nature of conflict, communication and the arts. When individuals, groups and communities clash, there is a sense that one’s perspective is not being heard and seen. The work of conflict practitioners is to create and facilitate processes that allow each group to see the other. The process of making others visible and of helping participants take perspective can involve an array of expression – storytelling
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A diverse and dynamic artist and educator, Mare Blocker has been teaching at PLU since 2014. Her classes include Art of the Book and Typography among others. Read more about Mare in this extended interview. What is your educational background? I have a BFA in…
Coffee or chocolate? Not choosing! BOTH French fries or hash browns? Hmm. Fries. Mac or PC? Mac! Instagram or Twitter? Insta—I’m a visual person first. Read Previous “Practicing Courage” by Margaret Matthews Read Next #BetweenArtAndQuarantine Challenge LATEST POSTS Meet Professor Junichi Tsuneoka August 20, 2024 Pacific Lutheran University Communication students help forgive nearly $1.9M in medical debt in Washington, Idaho, and Montana May 20, 2024 PLU Faculty Directs Local Documentary November 8
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The Computer Science Department senior capstone presentations will take place Saturday, May 6th. If you’d like to join the capstone Zoom session, please email Assistant Professor Jeff Caley at
:00pm – Lunch 12:45pm – Eve’s Quest Cora Maier (BA) Eve’s Quest is a proof of concept for a 2D action roleplaying game and its component systems. It has top down player movement, dialogue that reacts to player actions within the world, a combat system with varied enemy AI, a world map that can load different explorable areas and visual polish achieved through clean art and animation. This project focused in depth on how game code for these systems can be structured using design patterns to make them
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By Michael Halvorson. Halvorson is director of Innovation Studies at Pacific Lutheran University. Design has become an integral component of the innovation process. Leading businesses such as Amazon, Apple, Nike, Disney, Dyson, and Airbnb are all recognized for their award-winning designs that strive to…
customer needs. The business world is replete with calls for design-centered innovation. But, how do you learn design principles, and how do you use them to pursue new opportunities? At Pacific Lutheran University, I sat down to find out with Jp Avila, Associate Professor of Art & Design and a co-founder of PLU’s Innovation Studies program. Avila received his M.F.A. in Visual Communication from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he has taught Design at PLU since 2004. He is legendary on
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PLU mathematics professor Jessica Sklar is one of 23 collaborators creating a notable work of art, soon touring the nation. Called Mathemalchemy, the installation celebrates the beauty and creativity of mathematics. The finished piece will be about 16 x 8 feet in area and 9…
and features fractal snowflakes. Sklar currently works with artists and mathematicians creating Tess’s ceramic shell, knitted arms and legs, and a fabric-and-brass-rod kite accompanying the tortoise. Mathemalchemy is Sklar’s newest exploration of the connections between art and math. In 2007, Sklar exhibited photographs depicting visual metaphors of abstract algebraic concepts, and in 2017, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics published her “love poem for mathematics.” In addition to her work
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Below, you will find a selection of activities and assignments that address some aspect of the research process.
students determine an appropriate scope for their research. See Full Activity DescriptionUsing concept maps to shape research focus and develop research questionsType of activity: Individual activity; Group activity; Group discussion Goal: Create a visual map of a specific subject/concept to help students identify different potential research paths. Brief overview: Students will develop a concept map that identifies related subjects/concepts that are important to their area of interest. Instructors can
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