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The Passing of Bryan Dorner Posted by: nicolacs / June 4, 2024 Image: at PLU on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. June 4, 2024 Professor Emeritus Bryan Dorner passed away on Sunday, May 19, 2024. Beloved by his students and peers alike, Bryan joined the Department of Mathematics in 1980 and retired in 2017. He earned tenure in 1986 and was promoted to full professor in 2004. “Bryan truly cared about students’ learning and provided an exceptional PLU experience to them,” says emeritus Mathematics
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at PLU. He recalls his college years as one of finding focus, despite a lack of motivation academically. “I just couldn’t find an area that interested me,” he said. “But I credit a couple of PLU professors for figuring out a way to inspire my learning, including Dick Olufs and Ann Kelleher.” He also met his wife, Heidi Nuss ’88, at PLU. The couple has three children, Nicholas, 7, James, 6, and Madison, 1. “Certainly, the historical significance and artistic beauty of many of these coins holds
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sense of focus, but that is where the fun comes in.” Read Previous Writers welcomed Read Next Learning anthropology by doing anthropology COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS PLU move-in day 2024 September 4, 2024 PLU Director of Athletics and Recreation Mike Snyder named President of NADIIIAA August 16, 2024 PLU College of Liberal Studies welcomes Dean Stephanie
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Holocaust (co-edited with Franklin Littell, 1974), The Church Confronts the Nazis: Barmen Then and Now (1984), Learning from History: A Black Christian’s Perspective on the Holocaust (2000), and Searching for God in God-forsaken Times and Places: Reflections on the Holocaust, Racism, and Death (2003). Read Previous Extending a hand to veterans Read Next Rock on! COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in
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? Tachibana: We’ve had our incident command center up for eight weeks running and I serve as incident commander for this organization, along with two other individuals. I believe the three of us rotate that. And we’re available seven days a week, 24 hours a day, to deal with whatever might come into play. PLU: In your career in nursing and healthcare leadership, how would you describe how unprecedented this situation is? Tachibana: I don’t think we’ve had anything of this magnitude and of this type of
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that future music students’ lives were touched in a similar way. In 2000, the estate of Agnes Berge Smith left $2.5 million to fund 16 music scholarships at PLU. These merit-based awards now enable the university to attract the most talented students to its music program. And in recognition of the importance to Smith of the Chicago choir tour, a portion of her gift supports music group travel. Now, with her help, students in the four major performing ensembles have the opportunity to travel and
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other hundreds of hit songs that have made Beyoncé a worldwide music icon. But it was just one of the questions students tackled in the Women’s and Gender Studies course titled Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory. “The general premise of the course is to think about Beyoncé as a social, political and cultural figure through the lens of black feminist theory,” said Jennifer Smith, PLU’s first dean for inclusive excellence. Smith co-taught the class with PLU’s Center for Gender Equity Outreach and
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one of the largest processions in the world. This will be the third time students will be visiting Antigua for Holy Week. Students will also have the opportunity to meet the Guatemalan student and family sponsored by the University Congregation. Parkland Staycation Through Campus Ministry and the Center for Community Engagement and Service, students have the opportunity to discover beauty within Parkland. “The Staycation is for people who would like to stay close to home and get to know the
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March 26, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKMhp7hpYIs HBO DEF Poet to perform at PLU Critically-acclaimed slam poet and performer Carlos Andrés Gómez, star of HBO’s “Def Poetry” and Spike Lee’s #1 movie “Inside Man” with Denzel Washington, will perform on April 2 at 7pm in the PLU Anderson University Center Chris Knutson (CK) Hall as part of his Provoke Freedom College Tour. Gómez will be signing copies of his book “Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood” following his performance
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March 4 as part of PLU’s Eighth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education.Several hundred people gathered in the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts to watch the film, which tells the story of an American couple, Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus, who dared to venture into Nazi Germany in 1939 to save the lives of 50 children. Pressman happened to stumble upon the incredible story when he met his future wife and granddaughter of the Kraus’, Liz Perle, on the streets of San
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