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Summer 2021 Benson Research Fellows Announced Three student-faculty research teams investigate business and economic history Posted by: halvormj / May 2, 2021 May 2, 2021 By Michael Halvorson, ’85. The Benson Program in Business and Economic History is pleased to announce the selection of three student-faculty research teams for Summer 2021. The fellowships are selected by the Innovation Studies steering committee and funded through the generous support of Dale E. Benson and the Benson Family

Benson Student Research Fellows to Present at PLU Posted by: halvormj / November 7, 2017 November 7, 2017 By Michael Halvorson, Benson Chair in Business and Economic History. On Friday, December 8, 2017, three PLU students will present the results of their summer research projects in a public presentation connected to PLU’s Business and Economic History program. The presenters are Michael Diambri, Teresa Hackler, and Alex Lund, and each spent the summer of 2017 working with a faculty mentor to

Black History Month: Seeking (a Supreme Court) Justice Posted by: Holly Senn / February 2, 2022 February 2, 2022 (CNN)- President Joe Biden committed to nominating the nation’s first Black female Supreme Court justice, as he honored retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at the White House on Thursday. “The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the

documentary investigates how this powerful political gesture shaped the identities of the children, their sense of home, family and belonging by telling the story of 6 of those children.* Language: Spanish with English Subtitles FrancofoniaWednesday, Oct. 12 | 5:30 | Ingram 100 Francofonia is the great Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov’s heroically ambitious meditation on European culture and history as seen through the story of the Louvre museum in Paris, with a particular focus on its fortunes during

bonding opportunity, since all of us took part in exhibition competition, visited historic landmarks and experienced professional European soccer. “It was an outstanding trip, an awesome trip,” PLU women’s soccer coach Seth Spidahl said. “It was an unbelievable, once-in-a-lifetime experience for the student-athletes. It was something that we’d look to do again.” We played three games against three professional English teams—Blackburn, Manchester City and Crystal Palace—spread out over the trip with

September 1, 2009 9:52 a.m. – Mr. Homfeldt’s eighth grade history class “No, no and no,” Steve Homfeldt ’89 barks out to the group of students surrounding him. “And whatever you’re going to ask: no.”The 35 eighth-graders know he’s kidding, so they continue to pepper him with questions. Homfeldt, has asked his class to chronicle a road trip of sorts, asking them to plot a course to Eastern Washington and back, estimating gas mileage and the cost for hotels, food and entertainment. He also wants

July 2, 2010 PLU alum gets a ringside seat to history as U.S. plays in World Cup Last month By Barbara Clements PLU alumna Kelsey (Dawson) Goodson, ’08, accompanied her husband and U.S. soccer player, Clarence Goodson IV, to South Africa to represent the U.S. team at the World Cup Although the team lost to Ghana on June 26, Kelsey noted it was great being at the World Cup, rooting for the U.S. and blowing those darn horns until you were blue in the face. She recently described her experiences

Headed for a History Ph.D. – Updates from an Alum Posted by: shimkojm / December 11, 2019 Image: Carli at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC, with friends Celia (center) and Joy (right). Celia survived Nazi occupation in WWII by pretending to be a Polish Catholic child. December 11, 2019 By Carli Snyder, ’17, and Beth Kraig, Professor of HistoryFirst, we are glad that you chose PLU. Our mission is to prepare students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care – and we

Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Deliver Benson Lecture Posted by: halvormj / July 31, 2019 July 31, 2019 On October 9, 2019, the PLU community will welcome Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University Center. Professor Beckert is Laird Bell Professor of American History at Harvard, where he teaches the history

PLU School of Nursing program earns $350,000 grant to continue commitment to helping underserved communities Posted by: Kari Plog / July 18, 2016 Image: A PLU nursing student with the Family Nurse Practitioner program works with a patient at the Sumner Senior Center. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) July 18, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (July 18, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Nursing earned $350,000 to further its long history of placing Family