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TACOMA, WASH. (April 15, 2016)- Art makes people feel. Art offers a window into the hearts and minds of those who create it, and invokes emotion for those who view and admire it. For Edvard Munch, those feelings were complicated and, often times, dark. “…
it really comes through.” Still, the artist had a positive emotional side, also expressing joy, love and renewal in his pieces. Thanks to PLU’s connection to an avid Munch art collector and a featured exhibit at Tacoma Art Museum, students, faculty and staff as well as the greater Tacoma community have the opportunity to intimately experience all those emotions. TAM debuted its exhibit, Edvard Munch and the Sea, April 9. It will be on view through July 17. Munch’s powerful works are rarely
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Exhibit Overview This exhibit highlights resources for exploring the south Puget Sound indigenous Salish family of languages, including Twulshootseed. As the PLU land acknowledgement notes, “PLU is on the traditional lands of the Nisqually, Puyallup, Squaxin Island and Steilacoom peoples; we acknowledge and respect the…
and practice of acknowledgment, linking this content to treaty relationships (or lack thereof).” Print Books (on display) These first two books listed are not related to Salish languages but are include in this exhibit due to their focus on indigenous language and writing. E98.E85G46 2003 Genocide of the mind : new Native American writing E98.E85A48 2006 American Indian rhetorics of survivance: word medicine, word magic Below are books more locally focused on people and language. E99.P98A5x
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Award: $1,500 Deadline: March 1 of each year Please submit all required parts of the application (except letters of recommendation, which will be sent directly by the recommender) to the current Education Committee Chair (see contact info below). PDFs preferred. Eligibility: Applicants must be currently…
Puget Sound Section of the ACS Julia Ann Rutherford Memorial Scholarship Application Posted by: nicolacs / December 7, 2022 December 7, 2022 Award: $1,500 Deadline: March 1 of each year Please submit all required parts of the application (except letters of recommendation, which will be sent directly by the recommender) to the current Education Committee Chair (see contact info below). PDFs preferred. Eligibility: Applicants must be currently enrolled in a local four-year college or university
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[Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army Materiel Command / Creative Commons License ] By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 20, 2015)—On Jan. 25, one of cinema’s most trailblazing actors, Danny Glover, will visit Tacoma’s Theatre on the Square for a fundraising event in…
Hilltop neighborhood, the Buffalo Soldiers Museum seeks to educate, preserve and present the history and contributions of America’s Buffalo Soldiers through educational programs, historic research, youth outreach programs and exhibits. “The Buffalo Soldiers Museum in Tacoma provides a great chance for Tacomans to understand this important but little-known piece of American history,” Mergenthal said. “It’s wonderful that this museum can both celebrate local connections to the subject and provide an
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Editor’s note: PLU students will be live Tweeting the event, join in the conversation by following the hashtag #rockthecasbah from the PLU News Twitter account . If you are not able to attend checkout plu.edu for a live webstream of the event. Ambassador Chris Stevens…
February 12, 2013 Editor’s note: PLU students will be live Tweeting the event, join in the conversation by following the hashtag #rockthecasbah from the PLU News Twitter account. If you are not able to attend checkout plu.edu for a live webstream of the event. Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture Award-winning journalist Robin Wright will share her views on the Islamic world and talks about her friendship with Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in Libya on the anniversary of 9-11
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Elizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain. Returning home that day, she told her mom: “I’m…
Music and Medicine: Elizabeth Larios ’21 returns to Namibia to research infections and teach marimba Posted by: nicolacs / November 2, 2022 Image: Image: Fulbright-recipient Elizabeth Larios ’21 (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) November 2, 2022 By Anneli HaralsonResoLute Guest WriterElizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain.Returning home that day
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Elizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain. Returning home that day, she told her mom: “I’m…
Music and Medicine: Elizabeth Larios ’21 returns to Namibia to research infections and teach marimba Posted by: Logan Seelye / November 2, 2022 Image: Fulbright-recipient Elizabeth Larios ’21 (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) November 2, 2022 By Anneli HaralsonResoLute Guest WriterElizabeth Larios ’21 decided she was going to be a neurosurgeon in the fourth grade. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain.Returning home that day, she
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Chair’s report on scholarships and activities By Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Bob Ericksen received several notable invitations this year, including an opportunity to give the annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture at the University of Vermont. Hilberg spent his entire career…
scholarship. These talks, intended to be published as a collection of essays, allowed each speaker to review his or her own place in the field. Bob spoke on “Pastors and Professors: Assessing Complicity and Unfolding Complexity,” drawing upon his recent book, Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany (Cambridge, 2012). Ericksen’s connections with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC continued in 2012. He is Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the
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Professor Robert Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies. (John Froschauer, Photo) A Report on Scholarship and Activities in 2013-2014 Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies During the past two years, Bob Ericksen has given ten lectures in five nations on three…
Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. As Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust, he participated in three meetings in the past year designed to include Muslims in the Museum’s goal of spreading Holocaust education. As Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, Bob received travel support to attend a meeting of the Editorial Board of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte in Germany, and he spent time in the British Library in London, the Bodleian Library at Oxford, and the Cambridge University
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The T.O.H. Karl Forensics Forum took home first place this weekend at the 2016 annual Mark O. Hatfield Memorial Debate tournament on Feb. 27 and 28. After competing against 52 teams comprised of students from all over the nation, as well as against international teams…
Speech and Debate wins big at Willamette Posted by: Todd / March 1, 2016 March 1, 2016 The T.O.H. Karl Forensics Forum took home first place this weekend at the 2016 annual Mark O. Hatfield Memorial Debate tournament on Feb. 27 and 28.After competing against 52 teams comprised of students from all over the nation, as well as against international teams from Vancouver, B.C., Austin Ballard ’16 and Angie Tinker ‘16 were named the 2016 Mark O. Hatfield Memorial Debate tournament champions. “I
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