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By Damian Alessandro, ’19 At Pacific Lutheran University, we’re pretty excited about innovation. Over the past few months, my colleague Sarah Cornell-Maier and I have been writing about several types of innovation that we see in the workplace and in our curriculum. This week, I…
Innovation and Resilience Posted by: halvormj / May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 By Damian Alessandro, ’19 At Pacific Lutheran University, we’re pretty excited about innovation. Over the past few months, my colleague Sarah Cornell-Maier and I have been writing about several types of innovation that we see in the workplace and in our curriculum. This week, I took a deep dive on disruptive innovation with some faculty in the PLU School of Business, who are also mentors in our Innovation Studies program
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In Edwin Black’s book “IBM and the Holocaust” he examines IBM’s complicit work in creating a database for the Third Reich’s final solution. ‘IBM and the Holocaust’ By Barbara Clements University Communications Edwin Black remembers walking into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum with his parents…
mother, Maria, and her efforts to retrieve family paintings taken during the Holocaust. To complete the exhaustive research in the book, Black invented a crowdsourcing technique were 100 volunteers helped him pour over documents, and interview survivors or their children. The effort took years and spanned seven countries and 50 archives. In an interview at the time of the book’s first release by CNET, Black estimated that the research produced 20,000 documents, which he organized and cross-indexed
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Geosciences professor Claire Todd and her student, Matthew Hegland ’13, will be heading down to Antarctica to study rocks during the next two months. This is Todd’s fourth trip to the Antarctic. Rock On II: Prof and student head back to the frozen continent By…
November 22, 2011 Geosciences professor Claire Todd and her student, Matthew Hegland ’13, will be heading down to Antarctica to study rocks during the next two months. This is Todd’s fourth trip to the Antarctic. Rock On II: Prof and student head back to the frozen continent By Barbara Clements The way Matthew Hegland ’13 figures it, while he’s collecting rocks and bundled up in his parka in Antarctica next month, he’ll probably actually be warmer than his parents – who will be surviving
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JP Avila, Associate Professor of Art & Design, and Chad P. Hall ’10, PLU alum, have been busy at work with the release of season 4 of their podcast, This is Design School . This release welcomes amazing guests in the design world and beyond.…
“This is Design School” Podcast Posted by: Kate Williams / April 11, 2019 April 11, 2019 By Kate Williams '16JP Avila, Associate Professor of Art & Design, and Chad P. Hall ’10, PLU alum, have been busy at work with the release of season 4 of their podcast, This is Design School. This release welcomes amazing guests in the design world and beyond. This is Design School is a podcast for those interested in design, starting a career in design, or needing a reminder of why they went into design
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PLU is offering is the General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry sequences during the PLU Summer Session 2018. These courses are available to PLU students as well as non-matriculated students from other colleges and universities. They can be a useful mechanism to fit in prerequisite…
track if the scheduling of courses is causing challenges for you. Summer Term I: CHEM 115 General Chemistry I with Lab (4 credit hours) – Dr. Eric Finney finneyee@plu.edu Summer Term I: CHEM 331 Organic Chemistry I (4 credit hours) with CHEM 333 Lab (1 credit hour) – Dr. Adam Glass glassac@plu.edu Summer Term I: CHEM 116 General Chemistry II with Lab (4 credit hours) – Dr. Jon Freeman freemajo@plu.edu and Dr. Adam Glass glassac@plu.edu Summer Term I: CHEM 331 Organic Chemistry II (4 credit
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Cover art by Ta-coumba T. Aiken Intersections, Number 50, Fall 2019 Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning,…
in the Presidential Center for Faith and Learning at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, the institutional sponsor of the publication. Intersections extends and enhances discussions fostered by the annual Vocation of the Lutheran College Conference, together lifting up the vocation of Lutheran colleges and universities. It aims to raise the level of awareness among faculty, staff, and administration about the Lutheran heritage and church-relatedness of their institutions, especially as
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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,…
Trauma Center is accessible from the Mortvedt Library website. PLU Faculty: Suzanne Crawford O’Brien Books and articles by Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, accessible from the Mortvedt Library website or book shelves. Denise Glover Articles by Denise Glover, accessible from the Mortvedt Library website. Brenda Ihssen Book chapters and articles by Brenda Ihssen, accessible from the Mortvedt Library website. Mark Mulder Articles by Mark Mulder, accessible from the Mortvedt Library website. Sarah Robinson Book
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TACOMA, Wash. (Feb. 10, 2015)—On Thursday, Feb. 12, Pacific Lutheran University alumna and gospel music star Crystal Aikin ’97 returns to campus for a signing of her sophomore album, All I Need . Aikin will sign copies of All I Need from 12 p.m. to…
will sign copies of All I Need from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 12 at Garfield Book Company. Aikin’s new album was released Feb. 3, 2015. It already has reached the top of iTunes’ Gospel Music charts. This album is her first in six years. Since her first release, she says she has become more comfortable with creating music, and she believes this album reflects her.“There’s a lot of energy in this [album],” Aikin told Black Entertainment Television. “I feel like I was actually able to put my voice, my
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Conference unites art and religion Artists, musicians and scholars will gather on campus for PLU’s second “ Art, Religion and Peace Conference ” Feb. 12 and 13.Last held in the spring of 2005, the conference explores ways in which the visual and musical arts of…
artists, musicians, poets and architects have produced art to respond to the pressing issues of their time, or to address issues of social justice and peace, he continued. The study of religion at the university level tends to be text-heavy, and the conference will highlight the music and visual arts aspects of the subject. “We have a very eclectic mix, from Jewish klezmer jazz to a lecture on 4th Century Christian art to the breakout sessions by PLU faculty,” Torvend said. Robin Jensen, the Luce
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Five Lutes took the stage in the summer of 2011 for Seattle Opera’s production of ‘Porgy and Bess.’ (Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera) Seattle Opera’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ – five Lutes, one stage, hitting the high notes in fun The recent Seattle Opera production of…
October 13, 2011 Five Lutes took the stage in the summer of 2011 for Seattle Opera’s production of ‘Porgy and Bess.’ (Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera) Seattle Opera’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ – five Lutes, one stage, hitting the high notes in fun The recent Seattle Opera production of “Porgy and Bess” turned into something of a Lute reunion this summer, as five Lutes showed up for rehearsals and, after looking around, realized they were all fellow alums. Five Lutes, including Marlette Buchannan Hall
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