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  • Professor coaching at Olympics again For Colleen Hacker, being on the coaching staff of the U.S. Olympic Women’s Field Hockey Team brings her professional and athletic careers full circle. It also marks the fourth time the PLU professor of movement studies and wellness has been…

    . “Our students get to benefit from course work that includes theory and application from the world’s largest and most prestigious stage,” she said. “I think students respond to that and appreciate it.” Hacker has worked with professional, international and Olympic athletes in a variety of sports, including Major League Baseball, the National Football League and the Women’s National Basketball Association. She has also served as the sport psychology consultant for the under 16, under 19 and under 21

  • Turning Numbers Into Words Tyler Ball ’13, left, and PLU Math Professor Tom Edgar conducted research over the summer of 2012 (with Daniel Juda ’13) that’s now published in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Undergraduate Math Research Published in Prestigious Journal By…

    paper. Edgar received the grant for the research and recruited Ball and Juda to assist. “He was really working with us,” Ball said. “It wasn’t like he knew all the answers, which I thought was really cool.” The three researched a more specific ordering of natural numbers. The journal abstract reads, in part: “This paper provides an overview of the b-dominance order over the natural numbers, ℵ, using the base b expansion of natural numbers. … Here we discuss many ideas in order theory, including the

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University will host a lecture by Seattle University School of Law Professor Dean Spade, a leading scholar and activist in trans rights. His talk, “Romantic Notions: Soldiers, Spouses and the Limits of LGBT Equality,” will be held at 6…

    diversity, justice and sustainability in action—both within an academic context and within activism,” says Jennifer Smith, director of the Women’s Center. “He demonstrates how to put thought and theory into action. Additionally, his work is explicitly intersectional, focusing on race, class, sexuality and gender simultaneously.” Before joining the faculty of Seattle University, Spade was a Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow at UCLA Law School and Harvard Law School, teaching classes related to

  • Professor Emeritus of Physics | Department of Physics | starkovich@plu.edu | Steven P.

    relativity, cosmology and classical field theory. His previous degrees were a master’s degree in educational policy and management with an emphasis in higher education administration from the University of Oregon, and a bachelor’s degree in atmospheric sciences with an emphasis in atmospheric chemistry from Oregon State University. Now in retirement, he continues to pursue his academic interests in mathematical physics, and has recently authored a textbook on the subject (The Structures of Mathematical

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  • Rev. Dr. Monica Coleman, You Can Have it All: Theorizing Transreligious Spirituality from the Field of Black Studies, Wed., Oct. 22, 2014 at 7:30pm in the Karen Phillips Auditorium.

    , black and womanist theology, ancestor worship, and social theory. As a survivor of rape, Coleman became committed to speaking out against sexual violence in 1996. She founded and coordinated “The Dinah Project,” an organized church response to sexual violence, at Metropolitan Interdenominational Church in Nashville, TN. Her expertise in religion and sexual violence has taken her around the country to speak at churches, colleges, seminaries, universities, and regional and national conferences

  • PLU has added a  Master of Social Work  (MSW) degree to its offerings and is now accepting applicants for the fall of 2024. Rooted in PLU’s tradition of academic excellence and community engagement, the new MSW program will equip aspiring social work professionals with the skills…

    Dean of Health Professions David Ward. “Our MSW program is designed to nurture compassionate leaders equipped with the necessary skills and grounded in a strong ethical framework. We’re excited to provide a platform for our students to make tangible, positive changes in the lives of those they serve.” Diverse Learning Pathways and Global Focus The curriculum will immerse students in social work theory, practice, and ethics with practical applications. To accommodate working students, courses will

  • Below are links to Mortvedt Library or open web materials by panelists and PLU faculty participating in the Wang Center 2022 symposium, HEALING: PATHWAYS FOR RESTORATION AND RENEWAL . Article: Healing, a Concept Analysis Firth, K., Smith, K., Sakallaris, B. R., Bellanti, D. M., Crawford,…

    by Sarah Robinson, accessible from the Mortvedt Library book shelves. Giovanna Urdangarain Articles by Giovanna Urdangarain, accessible from the Mortvedt Library website. Print books in the collection on similar topics: BF637.F67F65 2009 Forgiveness and reconciliation : psychological pathways to conflict transformation and peace building BF637.F67F67 2000 Forgiveness : theory, research, and practice BJ1476.F67 2001 Forgiveness and reconciliation : religion, public policy & conflict transformation

  • On Exhibit: Library Resources about Homelessness “’Homelessness’ refers to much more than the situation of individuals who find themselves without an adequate place of residence. The standard legal definitions of homelessness . . . overlook the conditions of detachment or separation from mainstream society that…

    ). Understanding homelessness. Housing, Theory, and Society, 30(4), 384–415. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2012.756096     Grammatikopoulou, M. G., Gkiouras, K., Pepa, A., Persynaki, A., Taousani, E., Milapidou, M., Smyrnakis, E., & Goulis, D. G. (2021). Health status of women affected by homelessness: A cluster of in concreto human rights violations and a time for action. Maturitas, 154, 31–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.09.007     Chapter in e-Book Shinn, M., Mayberry, L. S., Greer, A. L

  • In collaboration with the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education , the Mortvedt Library has organized an exhibit in honor of the 11th Biennial Wang Center symposium : “ The Matter of Loneliness: Building Connections for Collective Well-Being. ” This two-day conference will…

    : Reclaiming the African American environmental heritage (1st ed). Lawrence Hill Books. (PLU Library link) Jenkins, Willis, Tucker, Mary Evelyn, & Grim, John (Eds.). (2018). Routledge handbook of religion and ecology. Routledge, Taylor & Francis group. (PLU Library link) Ray, Sarah J., Sibara, Jay, & Alaimo, Stacy. (Eds.). (2017). Disability studies and the environmental humanities: Toward an eco-crip theory. University of Nebraska Press. Watts Belser, Julia. (2020). Disability, climate change, and

  • Presentation Title: Hush No More: Constructing an African American Lutheran Womanist Ethic Who: Rev. Dr.

    and Andre’ (A.J. Tickle) aged 1 year.Jennifer SmithPresentation Title: “Get Me Bodied”: Beyoncè, Bodies, and Blackness Who: Dr. Jennifer Smith is the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at PLU Bio: Dr. Jennifer Smith is the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at Pacific Lutheran University. She co-taught “Beyoncè and Black Feminist Theory” in Fall 2017 alongside Tolu Taiwo. Her research interests include