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  • Ellie Dieringer explores impact of the Holocaust in South America Posted by: Zach Powers / September 5, 2023 September 5, 2023 By Anneli HaralsonResolute Guest WriterClose to 50,000 Jewish refugees fled to Argentina during the rise of Nazism and World War II. In fact, between 1933 and 1945, Argentina received more Jewish refugees per capita than any other nation in the world, except Palestine. But to most – outside of historical scholars or researchers — those facts are likely surprising. It’s

  • The value of a college education increases when graduates have a better understanding of religion’s diversity and influence in regional, national, and global life.

    diversity and influence in regional, national, and global life. The study of religion will help you speak to why religion gives meaning and purpose to billions of people on the planet. At PLU, students can take classes in environmental ethics, the religions of Asia, feminist theology, Luther, Native American traditions of the Pacific Northwest – to name just a few.  PLU students study religion in Tacoma and Seattle as well as far off destinations such as Hawaii, Rome, or Trinidad-Tobago. Our graduates

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  • PLU Receives $11,000 Grant for Tacoma/South Puget Sound MESA Program Posted by: Silong Chhun / August 18, 2021 August 18, 2021 By Veronica CrakerMarketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University has been awarded another grant from School’s Out Washington and the Washington State Department of Commerce to be used toward the Tacoma/South Puget Sound MESA program.The $11,000 grant comes from the Washington Youth Development Nonprofit Relief Fund. The MESA program prioritizes early exposure

  • TACOMA, WASH. (July 28, 2015)-  It’s safe to say Forrest Griek ‘00, ’02 loves being at school. Currently the principal of Tacoma’s Browns Point Elementary, Griek has spent his career serving in a variety of positions at schools throughout the South Sound, including Todd Beamer…

    his career serving in a variety of positions at schools throughout the South Sound, including Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way, where he served as Activities Director; Foster High School in Tukwila, where he served as an assistant principal; and Thomas Jefferson High School in Federal Way, where he was Dean of Students and later assistant principal. When Griek is not working at a school, he is often attending school. After graduating from PLU with a Bachelor of Arts in Education, he has gone

  • Many of the emails I’ve received about this subject reveal listeners’ confusion and misinformation, and I can tell that many people’s passions are very strong and may overwhelm their reason.  For example: people complain about: losing a South Sound resource (KPLU has been based in…

    Public Radio Sustainability Fundamental to KPLU Sale Posted by: Thomas Krise / December 1, 2015 December 1, 2015 Many of the emails I’ve received about this subject reveal listeners’ confusion and misinformation, and I can tell that many people’s passions are very strong and may overwhelm their reason.  For example: people complain about: losing a South Sound resource (KPLU has been based in Seattle for years); losing jazz and blues (KUOW plans to run 24/7 jazz and blues on 88.5); losing local

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2016)- With a Catholic mother and Buddhist father, first-year April Nguyen never had to worry about understanding religious diversity in her household — it was just how she was raised. Religion studies and religious diversity weren’t on her radar until she…

    First-year student pulls from roots, helps introduce religious diversity to PLU through lecture series Posted by: Kari Plog / March 21, 2016 Image: PLU Students visit Gurudwara Singh Sabah (Sikh Temple) and school in Renton as part of a J-Term class on the religions of Southeast Asia on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. (Photo/John Froschauer) March 21, 2016 By Samantha Lund '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2016)- With a Catholic mother and Buddhist father, first-year April Nguyen

  • It’s been 25 years since David Akuien ’10 was separated from his mother at age 5, 16 years since he came to the United States as an orphan.

    two million people died as a result of war, famine and disease caused by the Second Sudanese Civil War — including five of David’s siblings and his father. At one time, four million people were displaced. David, now 29, remains one of them. That will change Dec. 30, at least temporarily, when he travels to South Sudan for a four-week reunion with his mother, sister and other loved ones. The trip follows what David describes as a lifetime of isolation. “Most of what has happened to me is not good

  • David Akuien ’10 prepares to return to South Sudan, reunite with his mother Posted by: Zach Powers / December 22, 2016 Image: PLU alumnus David Akuien ’10 will soon return to South Sudan. (photo by Zach Powers/PLU) December 22, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 22, 2016)- It’s been 25 years since David Akuien ’10 was separated from his mother at age 5, 16 years since he came to the United States as an orphan.An estimated two million people died as a result

  • The PPA Program at Pacific Lutheran University is one of the longest running and most comprehensive undergraduate programs in publishing studies in North America.

    The Elliot Press in the News! PPA alumna Kristen Kendle has written a wonderful article for the South Sound Talk. Read More Type from the Thorniley type and printing press collection Welcome to Publishing and Printing Arts (PPA)Please click the links on the side for more information about the PPA Program at Pacific Lutheran University, one of the longest running and most comprehensive undergraduate programs in publishing studies in North America. We offer courses in the history of the book, the

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