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understand that driving does impact the world’s health, she wrote. The eight groups featured in the blog are: Journeying from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Antarctica to study natural history and conservation issues with English professor Charles Bergman. Investigating the impact of globalization on two major world cities, Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, with assistant philosophy professor Brendan Hogan Studying the concepts of peace journalism in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with

volunteering at a local senior home for Holocaust survivors, she met Giovanna Urdangarain, professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies, and Rona Kaufman, professor of English, who were interviewing survivors and recording their stories. “I realized I wanted to be involved in that,” Dieringer recalls. Following that trip, during her sophomore year, she worked with two other PLU students to transcribe and translate the survivor interviews conducted by the professors. As a junior, she headed to Oxford University

, the volunteers worked with the Bantu children one-on-one or in small groups. Since the Bantu were oppressed in Somalia, most of the children have had little or no education, but they did pick up some English while living in refugee camps, Greenaway explained. “We mostly help them with literacy skills, math and language,” Greenaway said. “They trick you in English. They can speak fluently, but they can’t read you ‘Harry Potter.’” When the children entered the American public school system, they

Irene Rzadzinksa Testimonial Posted by: kaufmard / January 29, 2023 January 29, 2023 By PLU Uruguay Project Team Irene Rzadzinksa, 96, testifies about her premonition to flee Warsaw for Russia after the Nazi invasion. She did forced labor in Siberia for four years and then traveled to Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, and India before finding an uncle in Uruguay. Open English TranslationOpen Spanish Transcript Read Previous Eva Nathan Testimonial Read Next Giza Alterwajn de Goldfarb Testimonial LATEST

Timely Research PLU faculty members engage in research critical to today and tomorrow Posted by: nicolacs / November 1, 2021 November 1, 2021 By Veronica CrakerResoLute Assistant DirectorTranslating the EnlightenmentThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin a $133,333 grant under the Scholarly Editions and Translations interest area. Wilkin and her collaborator Angela Hunter, an English professor from the University of Arkansas at Little

November 5, 2010 Visiting Writer Series By Kari Plog ’11 Rick Barot, assistant professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, was a political science major as an undergraduate before accidentally discovering his passion for poetry. Matthew Dickman came to PLU as part of the Visiting Writer’s Series. He hopes students will gain a similar experience from the annual Visiting Writer Series. “You never know what you will learn from an event,” Barot said. Barot discovered his passion for

February 29, 2012 PLU announces new president A highly regarded university administrator, professor of English and retired Air Force officer has been named president of Pacific Lutheran University. The Board of Regents met Feb. 29 to receive the unanimous recommendation of the presidential search committee and elected Thomas W. Krise the 13th president of PLU. “His experience, his proven leadership ability and his understanding of the values and aspirations of the university make Thomas Krise a

April 16, 2012 Visiting Writer Series: Melinda Moustakis PLU’s Visiting Writer Series continues with Melinda Moustakis with a reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 18 in the UC Regency Room. Moustakis was born in Fairbanks, Alaska and received her M.A. from UC Davis and her Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Bear Down Bear North (University of Georgia Press 2011), her first book, won the 2010 Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction and the UC Davis Maurice

October 15, 2012 Deirdre N. McCloskey – distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago – spoke about the value of the middle-class during the annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. (Photo by John Struzenberg ’15) The value of the bourgeoisie By Katie Scaff ’13 Don’t be ashamed of being bourgeois, said Deirdre N. McCloskey, distinguished professor of economics, history, English, and communication at the