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  • On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it…

    ), which means it is specifically designed to explore a topic through multiple academic departments and subjects. PLU’s IHON web page explains that the courses “use multiple lenses in order to overcome the blindness that comes from insisting upon just one.” While Heath’s class is advertised as a starship design class, the course is actually a multi-disciplinary exploration of the current state of planet Earth and the issues facing humanity. “This is a course about asking big questions and pursuing

  • Following Katherine Voyles’ insightful essay about why nobody can seem to agree on what the 2022 adaptation of Persuasion is supposed to do , this essay explores another question: why do we all keep watching Austen film adaptations, even when we don’t like them? The…

    “You assume just because I hate something I don’t want to do it?” Posted by: ramosam / September 12, 2022 September 12, 2022 By Madeline Scully Following Katherine Voyles’ insightful essay about why nobody can seem to agree on what the 2022 adaptation of Persuasion is supposed to do, this essay explores another question: why do we all keep watching Austen film adaptations, even when we don’t like them? The first filmed Austen adaptation was released in 1938, with a television movie of Pride and

  • Human Rights “I don’t care where you live or what your government is or what your religious beliefs are. You’re a human being, and that means, at a minimum, you need food, water, shelter, health care, freedom.”The end of the world is a place Ingrid…

    December 1, 2009 Human Rights “I don’t care where you live or what your government is or what your religious beliefs are. You’re a human being, and that means, at a minimum, you need food, water, shelter, health care, freedom.”The end of the world is a place Ingrid Ford ’97 knows well. A graduate of PLU’s School of Nursing, she went on to work for Doctors Without Borders for six years, providing medicine to remote villages in Sudan, HIV/AIDS awareness to children in Kenya, even sanitation and

  • Dr. Laura Shneidman, Assistant Professor of Psychology (PLU), Dr. Rebekah Richert (PI, UC Riverside) and Dr. Elizabeth Davis (UC Riverside) have been awarded a five-year grant from the Templeton Foundation to join the Developing Belief Network. The network is a research initiative designed to bring…

    Dr. Laura Shneidman awarded research grant from Templeton Foundation Posted by: tpotts / November 24, 2020 November 24, 2020 Dr. Laura Shneidman, Assistant Professor of Psychology (PLU), Dr. Rebekah Richert (PI, UC Riverside) and Dr. Elizabeth Davis (UC Riverside) have been awarded a five-year grant from the Templeton Foundation to join the Developing Belief Network. The network is a research initiative designed to bring together a network of scholars interested in cross-cultural study of the

  • MediaLab, PLU’s award-winning film production program, is no stranger to documentaries. For the past many years a team of students have gotten together, and decided on a topic they thought they could shed some light on through stories and film. This year, the team chose…

    it’s something we are directly involved in and know a lot about, at least from a student perspective,” said Evan Heringer ’16, chief videographer of the film. “We were all pretty interested in what we found and came to the conclusion that pursuing this topic might help those who are attending or thinking about pursuing some form of higher education, have a positive experience.”The resulting documentary, These Four Years, will premiere on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 at 3 p.m. in Seattle, Washington

  • A retrospective exhibit featuring printmaker and artist Craig Cornwall premieres at PLU on February 8. (Monday, January 23, 2017 – TACOMA, WA) It all starts with a mark: drawings with graphite, charcoal, ink and color, lithographs with marks of crayon, washes, rich color with multiple…

    “Impressions” exhibition hits its mark Posted by: Mollie Smith / January 25, 2017 January 25, 2017 A retrospective exhibit featuring printmaker and artist Craig Cornwall premieres at PLU on February 8. (Monday, January 23, 2017 – TACOMA, WA) It all starts with a mark: drawings with graphite, charcoal, ink and color, lithographs with marks of crayon, washes, rich color with multiple layers and wood cuts with marks that are created by the gouge of a knife. In the upcoming Pacific Lutheran Gallery

  • China: Tour like a rock star By Chris Albert While touring China this June, Luke Peterson ’10 felt something a jazz drummer doesn’t normally get to experience. Jazz students touring china this summer found they generated excitement no matter where they performed. He was treated…

    would carry over to the tour bus – Peterson once had to exit the bus to sign more autographs and to pose with his new fans. “It was very unexpected,” he said. “We definitely don’t get that in the states. It made the whole jazz band feel like rocks stars.” Even with obvious language barriers, music was one clear connection. While touring the PLU students had a chance to perform with Chinese musicians. “We couldn’t speak to each other, but we could play music together,” Peterson said. It’s that value

  • Convocation – A generation of globalists The incoming and returning students at PLU are part of the first global generation, said President Loren J. Anderson during Convocation on Sept. 8.“Quite simply you are globalists,” Anderson said to more than 1,000 students, faculty, staff and guests…

    institution in the West to receive the honor, he said. “It’s a big deal,” Anderson told the assembled students. But in many ways the programs and opportunities behind the award are only truly of value if students engage in what is available. In this world, a person with a college education is privileged, he said. If 100 people represented all the people in the world, only one would have that level of education. It is with that in mind, Anderson charged the gathered students with three challenges. Be the

  • Hebrew Idol showcases a different view of the Bible, theology By Chris Albert According to Assistant Professor of Religion Antonios Finitsis, there’s one real advantage to teaching a religion course: Nobody really knows all it entails. “They think religion is confined,” he said. “People do…

    , Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible. In this class, Finitsis asked his students to tell Hebrew Bible stories in whatever way they could. What he saw was “too good for no one else to see.” With that, “Hebrew Idol” was born. As part of the class, the student videos are subject to a vote, with top selections advancing to an awards show. The show includes viewings of the top selections, guest judges portraying Hebrew Bible characters, awards, hall-of-fame inductions and musical performances. It is

  • KPLU’s annual Christmas Jam concert and live broadcast with special guests Pearl Django. will take place from noon to 1 p.m. at PLU. KPLU Christmas Jam concert and live broadcast with special guests Pearl Django The 16th Annual KPLU Christmas Jam, 88.5 KPLU’s much-anticipated FREE…

    November 27, 2012 KPLU’s annual Christmas Jam concert and live broadcast with special guests Pearl Django. will take place from noon to 1 p.m. at PLU. KPLU Christmas Jam concert and live broadcast with special guests Pearl Django The 16th Annual KPLU Christmas Jam, 88.5 KPLU’s much-anticipated FREE holiday concert, features guest artists, Gypsy jazz masters Pearl Django – from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 6 in Lagerquist Concert Hall in the MBR at PLU. Pearl Django will perform Christmas