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over the last 10,000 years due to long-term global factors, such as changes in the earth’s orbit. Providing a record of this long-term retreat will help us place more recent, decade-scale climate change into context. PLU geosciences student Vermeulen ’12, along with Todd and four other researchers, traveled by C-130 cargo plane to a location in the Pensacola Mountains 1,000 miles away from McMurdo Station, the home of the U.S. Antarctic Program. Ice sheets leave behind clues about its past, by
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they even contradict.” Navkiran “Navi” Randhawa Chemistry and Biology Tacoma, Wash. Randhawa loves this – she sees it as a way to engage in ideas she might not otherwise encounter if she spent all her time in the science building. This is by design. Whereas many universities, have programs that focus on global issues, what makes PLU’s truly unique, is that such issues are looked at from multiple perspectives and multiple disciplines – course material is drawn from at least two countries with
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Contributors Genny Boots Genny is a communication/mass media and journalism major with a minor in global development at PLU. Since leaving her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, Genny has been exploring new places. From backpacking in south and central America and central Europe to a semi-settled life in the Puget Sound, Genny has enjoyed writing and telling stories. You can find her work around campus, through PLU’s Division of Marketing and Communications as well as Mast Media, and in The News Tribune of
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of leaders. We are committed personally, as well as professionally, to encouraging our students to engage in lifelong learning and work that will create a fair and just world for all. We encourage our students to consider the greater good of society and to challenge impediments to progress. We are committed to nurture students as leaders with both local and global perspectives who care for and serve the greater good of all beings that inhabit their communities, as well as the physical environs in
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addition, even as the economy collapsed around us, we were able to secure $1 million in matching gifts to qualify for a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation challenge grant and endow our new Global Scholars Grant Program that will increase access to study abroad for all of our students. When our remarkable chemists secured the NSF grant to acquire our ground breaking NMR Spectrometer, we turned to our science graduates who provided the $400 thousand necessary to support the creation of this important new
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reputation for success in a certain aspect of life, non-clan members may wish to sacrifice to the mask through the head of the clan. Every May, there is an annual sacrifice for blessing and good fortune in the coming year called suku or sigim-dam; it is celebrated with the brewing and drinking of millet beer (ram). – Adrian Mayoral ’15, History, and Molly Shade ’12, Anthropology and Hispanic Studies Sources: Christopher D. Roy. “The Art of Burkina Faso.” The University of Iowa. Art and Life in Africa
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until he has completed the third step of initiation by demonstrating mastery of the secret language, generally between the ages of 25 and 30. Male initiation is particularly important for the transmission of important religious knowledge from one generation to the next and for maintaining the purity of Bobo traditions. – Megan Wonderly ’16, Anthropology & History Sources: Bravmann, René A. The Poetry of form: the Hans and Thelma Lehmann Collection of African Art. Seattle: Henry Art Gallery
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cultures of study include the Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, and the Toltecs. Emphasis is placed on how these Mesoamerican societies were structured and how they changed over time. (4) ANTH 343 : East Asian Cultures - ES, GE A survey of the cultures and peoples of Eastern Asia, concentrating on China but with comparative reference to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Cultural similarities as well as differences between these nations are stressed. Topics include religion, art, politics, history, kinship, and economics
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another university, and display information about buildings and events on campus. The user may use the app to learn the history and purpose of different locations on campus, and keep track of upcoming events and their details. It pulls information from the connected Firebase database and uses the phone’s location and orientation sensors to overlay images and information onto the user’s camera feed in the application. It was created for Android devices, version 4.0+, and requires an internet connection
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Past Powell-Heller Holocaust Conferences 2022 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust EducationTo be Jewish in Poland, a predominantly Roman Catholic country, meant experiencing both the highs of cultural life and the absolute low of persecution and discrimination, culminating in the world’s most notorious genocide, the Holocaust. If one looks at the long view of Polish history, one would find that Jews were first invited to come to live under the king’s protection in the 13th century.Learn more
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