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you the unapologetic truth about systemic racism, its detrimental impact on our mental and physical health as a community, and ideas for you to mitigate the harm,” said Melannie Denise Cunningham, People’s Gathering founder and PLU director of multicultural outreach and engagement. “Knowledge is the tool we use to eradicate racism.” In addition to the keynote from Moore, the event will include dialogue sessions that will invite attendees to break into small groups to reflect on what they have
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April 11, 2008 World expert addresses masculinity, violence Silence is not golden. That was the message from Sut Jhally, founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation. Jhally’s address last Thursday marked the beginning of PLU’s first Men Against Violence Program conference that examined men’s role in ending violence against women. “The men who commit violence against women are a small percentage of men,” Jhally conceded. “However, the reason the violence goes on is the
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, Manso has noticed that, among the new employees that join his lab, it is the PLU students who seem to be significantly more self-reliant than graduates from other schools. “Lutes always seem to be a few steps ahead of others,” he said. He chalks that up to the preparation he and his colleagues received at PLU. “The professors always prepared us for how things would be in the ‘real world,’” Manso said. “They kept saying, ‘You’ll use [these skills] for the next 50 years of your life.’ “And so far,” he
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relishes the chance to both sing and help with the productions of the relatively new company. “People really appreciate doing business with people they like, and that’s all the more true for the arts world,” Surkatty said. “In opera, a lot of the castings begin with recommendations. That’s eventually how you land the big gigs.” That, and a passion for your craft. Surkatty was born in the United States and then traveled back with her family to Indonesia when she was only a few weeks old. Her family
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scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024
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? The collaboration has been very fulfilling! In the simplest terms, Geoffrey Boers, a PLU alumnus who conducts the University of Washington Chamber Singers, as well as the Tacoma Symphony Chorus, realized that all our performances of three very different Passions were bunched together within a 10-day span, and he approached me about tying the events together into a larger, more regional event. In this way we could pool our resources, hopefully reach and feed off of each other’s audience, and bring
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how these things relate, which means I spend a lot of time thinking about creativity, and that too is an outgrowth of all these crazy pieces of my life,” said Greg Youtz, professor of music. Arriving in Champagne, Youtz signed on as an able-bodied migrant laborer, picking champagne grapes along the French countryside. Following four weeks of fieldwork, Youtz hitchhiked south with burgundy-stained digits, and stumbled into employment at L’Aigle (The Eagle), a ski resort nestled loftily in the Swiss
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Fred Hutch Lab Tech Training Internship Program Posted by: nicolacs / March 13, 2017 March 13, 2017 Lab Tech Training Internship Program Overview: This internship opportunity will provide job training for students interested in pursuing biomedical research after graduation. Labs in the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Division at Fred Hutch (e.g. Lund Lab, HVTN, McElrath Lab, Schiffer Lab) are seeking PLU, SPU, Seattle U and local undergraduate military veterans for this nine week internship
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, and enthusiastic. She has been teaching for 28 years, at PLU since 2008, and regards herself as lucky to be part of a faculty, and a community, that was supported, because she had training in online teaching, and had participated in Inclusive Teaching seminars before and during the pandemic. Born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, Dr. Urdangarain obtained her BA in Comparative Literature and Secondary Education in 1991. She taught at a high school level for seven years until relocating to the
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diversity of this expression of experience from a varied set of mediums enriched how I went about understanding the human experience of centuries past. Though we cannot recreate life as it was, by examining German literature we learned of perspectives toward how people of the time interacted with their world – an inquiry that can inform how we choose to interact with and process our world today. A thought that remains poignant from our German literature readings comes from Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim’s
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