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strained relationships among those of different races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, and social classes. (Exhibit closed March 17, 2020.) This exhibit supports the 9th Wang Center Symposium: Disarming Polarization: Navigating Conflict and Difference. The symposium takes place March 5-6, 2020 in PLU’s Anderson University Center. Read Previous On Exhibit: Books from the Collection about Food Read Next On Exhibit – Black History Month: Black@PLU LATEST POSTS On Exhibit: Veterans
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consequences of innovation? Damian Alessandro (Class of 2019) My name is Damian Alessandro, and I am majoring in History at Pacific Lutheran University. I am in my Junior year and I have been enjoying my experiences here on-campus, which include being a Resident Assistant in Pflueger Hall. The subject of History has been a great passion of mine since I was young, so it has been fun to study it at PLU in greater depth. This path has led me to a greater appreciation for inventors and innovators throughout
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, an estimated 25 to 35 percent of American Indian children had been separated from their families. Blending history and heartbreaking family stories, award-winning historian Margaret D. Jacobs, the Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, examines this phenomenon—and its global dimensions—in her latest book, A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World. On Wednesday, Feb. 25, Jacobs will discuss her book, and her
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a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington and he now serves as the Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History at PLU.Halvorson co-founded the innovation studies program and minor in 2016 and currently serves as the program director. Innovation is his passion, but Halvorson’s extensive knowledge of history fortifies his perspective. “In our program we look at the long history of innovation, how people have created new things, and what the positive and negative consequences of
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& Date: Utah, March 2019. Read Previous On Exhibit – Pandemics: History & Responses Read Next Archives & Special Collections Launches New Collection Management System LATEST POSTS On Exhibit: Veterans Day: A Salute to Service November 1, 2022 Black History Month: Seeking (a Supreme Court) Justice February 2, 2022 Mortvedt Library materials for HEALING: PATHWAYS FOR RESTORATION AND RENEWAL symposium February 16, 2022 On Exhibit: Women’s History Month March 9, 2022
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Mergenthal, Pacific Lutheran University Associate Professor of History, also will speak at the event. “I will be giving a short talk to provide some context and historical background about the Buffalo Soldiers, who they were and what they did,” Mergenthal said. “I want people to understand both the challenges the Buffalo Soldiers faced and the lasting impact of their service.” “Buffalo Soldiers” is the historic nickname given to the African-American soldiers who originally served as members of the U.S
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Appreciation and Alumni Awards Dinner. Descending to the lower level of the Anderson University Center after 7 p.m. on a typical Saturday, you might find a sprinkling of dedicated students hanging out in the Diversity Center, ASPLU or one of the other student organization offices. Music may even drift out of the student radio station from a LASR DJ. But Homecoming didn’t offer a typical Saturday night in the lower AUC. This weekend, PLU on Tap took over. The buzz of conversation and soft jazz music
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March 1, 2011 From Microsoft to Martin Luther, and back again In 1994, Mike Halvorson was the first one to write a book about something nobody else cared about. The book? How to use a little-known software program called Microsoft Office. We can guess how that turned out. Halvorson graduated PLU in 1985 with a degree in computer science and a minor in history. That unique combination seemed to help when, soon after graduation, Halvorson found himself working for Microsoft, back in the days when
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it will be housed in the Mortvedt Library until Sept. 24.I Am Psyched! is a multimedia initiative launched by the American Psychological Association Women’s Programs Office to explore the history and contemporary contributions of women of color in psychology as they engage in psychological science, practice and social justice. The I am Psyched! National Tour got started in early 2017 with an installation at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The exhibit traveled across America to 12
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Community. Articles (online) What are land acknowledgments, and how do they help Indigenous peoples? (2021, April 2). Christian Science Monitor, NA. https://ezproxy.plu.edu/login?url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A657269447/ITOF?u=taco36403&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=980204f9 “The land acknowledgment is intended for use by non-Indigenous members of society as a corrective measure, to recognize history. The atrocities committed against Indigenous populations — from genocide to forced assimilation — are only
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