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October 11, 2010 Music is very much alive By Chris Albert Several months ago, PLU music professor Edwin Powell began collaborating with Norwegian-born composer Ola Gjeilo. “It’s all been done over Facebook,” Powell said. The PLU Wind Ensemble, director by Ed Powell, will perform the world premiere of Ola Gjeilo’s composition. Powell, the Wind Ensemble director, asked Gjeilo for permission to adapt a chorale piece Gjeilo had done for wind ensemble. He soon found out, Gjeilo was not only

Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies at PLU. McCracken, a global studies and anthropology major, said that after she graduates, she hopes to do volunteer work with the Lutheran Volunteer Corps, and work with countries or communities in conflict “to build a common community and move forward.” McCracken said she found her passion when she spent time in Northern Ireland, last J-term, and last fall in South Africa. “After those experiences, I decided, ‘yes!’ this is what I want to do,” she said

October 17, 2014 3 Free Events at PLU Celebrate the Legacy of Thor Heyerdahl PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 17, 2014)—The Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University honors the 100-year anniversary of Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl’s birth with three events that celebrate the impact he made on PLU, environmental scholarship, anthropological theory and Norwegians around the world. Heyerdahl, who first came to the world’s attention in 1947 for his

PLU Stages Special 125th Anniversary Exhibition at Seattle’s Nordic Heritage Museum Posted by: Sandy Dunham / August 31, 2015 August 31, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (Aug. 31, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University has been closely connected to the Scandinavian world—and to the local Scandinavian community—since its founding by Norwegian Bjug Harstad in 1890. These days, PLU’s Nordic roots are reflected across campus: in building names, artwork, Scandinavian

PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center selected for Registrars to the Rescue service project Posted by: Zach Powers / June 3, 2016 Image: His Majesty King Harald V of Norway (left) is greeted by PLU Norwegian and Scandinavian studies professor Troy Storfjell in the Scandinavian Cultural Center on May 23, 2015. June 3, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (June. 23, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University’s Scandinavian Cultural Center (SCC) is one of two Tacoma-area museums

, senior advisor the Norwegian Space Centre. With stunning space video clips, Brekke’s fascinating sun-aurora presentation attends to all interest levels. His astrophysics-research credentials, international collaborations, peer-reviewed articles, university teaching, prestigious awards, Photograph by Bjorn Anders Nymoen, An aurora over Nesoddtangen, Norway, billows out into the distance on October 9. and popular IMAX theater appearances promise vibrant material for scientists and non-scientists alike

April 5, 2012 Film Festival Series: Most People Live in China The Department of Language & Literatures Film Festival Series 2011-2012 presents: Most People Live in China (Norway, 2002) at 5 p.m. Friday, April 13 in Ingram 100. Folk Flest Bor I Kina (Most People Live in China), directed by Martin Asphaug, is a political satire from Norway, consisting of nine separate episodes, each reflecting a different Norwegian political party. PLU Associate Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies

March 7, 2008 Vote for the first Hebrew Idol In another PLU twist on Fox’s popular singing series “American Idol,” assistant religion professor Tony Finitsis is bringing “Hebrew Idol 2008” to campus. The event stems from the final project in his “Religion and Literature of the Old Testament” course. In groups, students are asked to reflect on the contemporary relevance of the Hebrew Bible and re-tell a biblical story set in modern times. In the past, students wrote papers, created PowerPoint

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

November 12, 2012 “The Other Side of Immigration” examines the impact migration has on the families that stay behind. “The Other Side of Immigration” By Katie Baumann ’14 PLU welcomed Roy Germano to campus this fall as part of the 2012 Department of Language and Literature Film Festival Series, to show his documentary, ‘The Other Side of Immigration.” This film explores why so many Mexicans leave their homes to migrate to the United States and explores another side of the issues surrounding