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  • It would take hours to describe all the ways to get involved at PLU. In fact, we make it easy to participate.

    involved. They lead. You can change the world with Advocates for Social Justice or work side-by-side with faculty to implement earth-friendly practices on campus. Some clubs are tailor-made to apply lessons from the classroom like the Investment Club, where you meet each week with students and business professors to invest real money in the Stock Market. Of course, there are clubs that allow you to recharge your spirit with others who share similar interests, belief systems or cultures, such as the

  • PLU students are eligible for the following scholarships and awards: The Judge Bertil E. Johnson Scholarship provides an award to a premedical undergraduate student who has attained junior status.

    Scholarships and AwardsPLU students are eligible for the following scholarships and awards: The Judge Bertil E. Johnson Scholarship provides an award to a premedical undergraduate student who has attained junior status.  This scholarship was established by the Allenmore Medical Foundation to honor Judge Bertil E. Johnson. Judge Johnson was born in 1901 and retired from the Pierce County Superior Court in 1974. He was active in service to the community and received many community awards. He

  • PLU students are eligible for the following scholarships and awards: The Judge Bertil E. Johnson Scholarship provides an award to a premedical undergraduate student who has attained junior status.

    Scholarships and AwardsPLU students are eligible for the following scholarships and awards: The Judge Bertil E. Johnson Scholarship provides an award to a premedical undergraduate student who has attained junior status.  This scholarship was established by the Allenmore Medical Foundation to honor Judge Bertil E. Johnson. Judge Johnson was born in 1901 and retired from the Pierce County Superior Court in 1974. He was active in service to the community and received many community awards. He

  • Originally published in 2005 For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took…

    Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities Posted by: alex.reed / May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 By Charles BergmanOriginally published in 2005For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took us nearly two weeks of hard work and unflagging persistence to locate, track, and finally tree this jaguar in the

  • PLU Women win D-III Ultimate National Championship By Steve Hansen Before Angelica “Geli” Boyden ’11 and Marissa Lyons ’10 came to PLU, they had never thrown a disc before, let alone played the sport of ultimate. “Actually, I threw the disc a few times,” Boyden”…

    July 31, 2010 PLU Women win D-III Ultimate National Championship By Steve Hansen Before Angelica “Geli” Boyden ’11 and Marissa Lyons ’10 came to PLU, they had never thrown a disc before, let alone played the sport of ultimate. “Actually, I threw the disc a few times,” Boyden” admits. “I sucked.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiSNTx5U924 Angelica Boyden ’11 is one of 17 women on the PLU women’s ultimate national championship team Since then, a few things have changed. For starters, they can

  • Jen Soriano (she~they) is a Filipinx writer and movement builder who has long worked at the intersection of grassroots organizing, narrative strategy, and art-driven social change.

    Jen Soriano Jen SorianoJen Soriano (she~they) is a Filipinx writer and movement builder who has long worked at the intersection of grassroots organizing, narrative strategy, and art-driven social change. Jen has won the International Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, the Fugue Prose Prize, and fellowships from Hugo House, Vermont Studio Center, Artist Trust, and the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat. Jen is also an independent scholar and performer, author of the chapbook “Making the

  • The Wang Center Research Grant Program is designed to support students, faculty, and faculty-student teams that seek to conduct original research in an international setting.

    and Material Memory: Holocaust Museums in the Southern Cone” Dr. Jan Weiss with Hannah McCann, “Creating Culturally Relevant School Routines to Support San Learners in Namibia” 2020-2022Students: Kerry Dolan, “Violence Against Indigenous Women of Oaxaca: Raising Awareness” Keisha Laguer Vandessppooll, “Representation and the Wellbeing of the Disability Community in Oaxaca” Faculty:  Dr. Corey Cook, “Cross-Cultural Extensions of the Affordance Management Approach to Understanding Stereotyping and

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March. 13, 2016)- TEDxTacoma 2016: Healthy Future will welcome a diverse bill of local business, arts, education and nonprofit leaders to share their ideas on a wide spectrum of topics including health care, leadership, human nature and violence against women. The annual event…

    PLU to host TEDxTacoma 2016: Speakers include YWCA CEO, best-selling novelist and Army lieutenant general Posted by: Zach Powers / March 13, 2016 Image: PLU Associate Professor of Politics and Government Maria Chavez-Pringle gave a talk titled “(de)Americanization of Latino Youth” at TEDxTacoma 2015. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) March 13, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 13, 2016)- TEDxTacoma 2016: Healthy Future will welcome a diverse bill of local

  • The comic book final gets some respect as literature Harvard professor Hillary Chute took students and faculty alike into the world of graphic novels, from a woman’s point of view, last week. In a talk titled “Comics as Literature: Women’s Contemporary Graphic Narratives,” Chute spoke…

    received her masters and Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University. Her book projects and publications include “Out of the Gutter: Women’s Contemporary Graphic Narrative,” and “Comics as Literature? Reading Graphic Narrative.” In her talk last week, Chute noted that the graphic novel, especially women in the graphic novel genre, have recently come into the mainstream. To wit, she noted Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis,” and that “Fun Home,” by Alison Bechdel was chosen by Time Magazine as the number one

  • The Department of Global and Cultural Studies is a dynamic curricular hub for global education made up of the following programs: Chinese and Chinese Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Global

    Context (4) FREN 204/404: Postcolonial Francophone Fictions and Criticism (4) FREN 206/406: French/Francophone Feminisms (4) (when the topic is African Woman Writers) HISP 301: Hispanic Voices for Social Change (4) (when taught by PLU faculty on campus) HISP 351: Hispanic Voices for Social Change for Heritage Speakers (4) HISP 322: Latin American Cultural Studies (4) HIST 218: Women and Gender in World History (4) HIST 305: Slavery in the Americas (4) HIST 333: Colonization and Genocide in Native