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  • Mathematics in Popular Culture: Essays on Appearances in Film, Literature, Games, Television and Other Media co-edited with Elizabeth S. Sklar (McFarland & Co. 2012) : View Book Selected Presentations MAA MathFest, Collaboration in the Time of COVID, Virtual (August 5, 2021) AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Cinematic Chicken: A Friendly Introduction to Game Theory, Denver, CO (January 15, 2020) Seattle University Math Colloquium, Money! Mystery! Murder! Madness! Metaphor! (& Mathematics), Seattle, WA

  • who does the same elsewhere.Mathilde Magga ('20)My name is Mathilde Magga and I am a Sámi woman from Northern Norway. I just entered the MA/PhD program in literature at the University of Washington where I get to pursue my interests in Indigenous literature. When I first came to PLU 3 years ago, I had no idea what I was doing; I didn’t even know if I wanted to stay for more than a year. But with the love, passion and mentorship I received both from the English department and the NAIS community, I

  • Students intending to attend seminary should complete the requirements for the bachelor of arts degree. Besides the general degree requirements, the Association of Theological Schools recommends the following: English: literature, composition, speech, and related studies; at least six semester-long courses. History: ancient, modern European, and American; at least three semester-long courses. Philosophy: orientation in history, content, and methods; at least three semester-long courses. Natural

  • Advisory Board Members Aihua Liao, Assistant director, UW CIWA Alice Flores, Vice President, Chinese Language Teachers Association – WA Angela Davila, World Languages Program Supervisor, Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction Chan Lu, Assistant Professor, UW Asian Languages & Literature, Seattle Dongmei Huang, Confucius Institute Chinese Director K-12 (from Chongqing Municipal Education Commission), Seattle Heidi Steele, Chinese Teacher, Peninsula School District, Gig Harbor Jennifer Lundstrem

  • encouraging them to make discoveries of their own. Above all, I try on a daily basis to remind myself and my students of the joy that literature can provide both reader and writer, the relief from a world that often suppresses joy, the pleasure of finding a way to communicate genuinely what it feels like to be human. What a wonderful way to spend one’s life, working day after day to compose, in the words of the great William Goyen, ‘the music of what was.’”

  • April 3, 2012 PLU prof’s book wins ChLA Book Award Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tales of Modernity, has received the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA) Book Award for books published in 2010. The book was written by Nathalie op de Beeck, PLU associate professor of English. It was published by the University of Minnesota Press. Suspended Animation analyzes the phenomenon of American picture books and what their imaginative form and content reveal about the

  • Want to Study What ? Yes, a Philosophy Major Makes Sense, Adds Perspective.Courses in philosophy help students who recognize philosophy as a central element in a quality liberal arts education; wish to support their undergraduate work in other fields, such as literature, history, political science, religion, the sciences, education, or business; plan to use their study of philosophy in preparation for graduate study in law, theology, or medicine; or are considering graduate work in philosophy

  • Honorary Degrees Guiding PoliciesThe following represent those honorary degrees that may be offered by Pacific Lutheran University.  While there are many other honorary doctoral degrees, the following not only represent honorary degrees offered historically by PLU, but also represent the strongest alignment with mission. DegreeAwarded to someone who has demonstrated significant and sustained accomplishment, achievement, and dedication to: Doctor of Arts (D.A.)literature or the arts Doctor of

  • boisterous, agitated streets to bus stations where a “rickety, old, bus,” would pick them up along with, “40 Afghani villagers, and maybe some animals.” They continued towards Katmandu, learning of worldly dissonances and bureaucratic exploitation. Hustled by border agents at nearly every crossing, and robbed at knifepoint by bandits, Youtz says, “I trusted people I never should have trusted, but I mean this was the real world. It gets woolly.” It was on this stretch that Youtz began discovering a

  • , volunteers work in Las Cruces, NM and El Paso, TX with US-Mexico border issues.Visit WebsiteBUNACVolunteers serve in 74 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. Collaborating with local community members, Volunteers work in areas like education, youth outreach and community development, the environment, and information technology.Visit WebsiteCongress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young ProfessionalsA yearlong fellowship to study and intern in