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  • On Exhibit: Library Resources about Homelessness “’Homelessness’ refers to much more than the situation of individuals who find themselves without an adequate place of residence. The standard legal definitions of homelessness . . . overlook the conditions of detachment or separation from mainstream society that…

    ). Understanding homelessness. Housing, Theory, and Society, 30(4), 384–415. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2012.756096     Grammatikopoulou, M. G., Gkiouras, K., Pepa, A., Persynaki, A., Taousani, E., Milapidou, M., Smyrnakis, E., & Goulis, D. G. (2021). Health status of women affected by homelessness: A cluster of in concreto human rights violations and a time for action. Maturitas, 154, 31–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2021.09.007     Chapter in e-Book Shinn, M., Mayberry, L. S., Greer, A. L

  • In collaboration with the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education , the Mortvedt Library has organized an exhibit in honor of the 11th Biennial Wang Center symposium : “ The Matter of Loneliness: Building Connections for Collective Well-Being. ” This two-day conference will…

    : Reclaiming the African American environmental heritage (1st ed). Lawrence Hill Books. (PLU Library link) Jenkins, Willis, Tucker, Mary Evelyn, & Grim, John (Eds.). (2018). Routledge handbook of religion and ecology. Routledge, Taylor & Francis group. (PLU Library link) Ray, Sarah J., Sibara, Jay, & Alaimo, Stacy. (Eds.). (2017). Disability studies and the environmental humanities: Toward an eco-crip theory. University of Nebraska Press. Watts Belser, Julia. (2020). Disability, climate change, and

  • Presentation Title: Hush No More: Constructing an African American Lutheran Womanist Ethic Who: Rev. Dr.

    and Andre’ (A.J. Tickle) aged 1 year.Jennifer SmithPresentation Title: “Get Me Bodied”: Beyoncè, Bodies, and Blackness Who: Dr. Jennifer Smith is the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at PLU Bio: Dr. Jennifer Smith is the Dean of Inclusive Excellence and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at Pacific Lutheran University. She co-taught “Beyoncè and Black Feminist Theory” in Fall 2017 alongside Tolu Taiwo. Her research interests include

  • Ambassadors spotlight climate change Growing up in Oregon, recycling was part of junior Kate Wilson’s everyday life.“It was the norm for me,” she said. “I was always passionate about it, but I never knew why recycling was important.” During J-Term, Wilson is among the 16…

    recycle until he came to PLU, but now he’s passionate about protecting the environment and sharing his knowledge with others. The geosciences and chemistry major plans to teach high school science. Under the guidance of Claire Todd, visiting assistant professor of geosciences and environmental studies, those in the program have spent a large portion of J-Term reviewing the evidence for recent climate change. They have been reviewing data collected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC

  • Grant supports environmental research With a $90,000 grant, the Environmental Studies Program intends to provide students and faculty members with more opportunities for research and creative projects. The program received the funding from the Wiancko Charitable Foundation in December 2007. The program’s faculty determined the…

    planned is a summer research retreat. It will bring together Behrens, Todd, McKenna, their student researchers and other PLU faculty to work on projects together, such as the health of Puget Sound, Teska said. “We will demonstrate with evidence that we have the capacity to do these innovative, creative, interdisciplinary explorations,” Teska said. “It’s another piece that we can document that PLU is distinctive.”   Read Previous Two students killed in car accident Read Next Celebrate World Fair Trade

  • Holocaust scholar investigates Nazi campaign to “criminalize” Jews By Barbara Clements Michael Berkowitz first came to Professor Robert Ericksen’s attention about 10 years ago, when he first spotted the aspiring Holocaust scholar at the Ohio State University. Since then, Ericksen – PLU’s Kurt Mayer Chair…

    work investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZPatgrXO8w Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on “Jewish criminality” from the eighteenth century through the Weimar Republic, into the

  • Study Away opportunities at PLU take students around the world. (Photo of Greek coast by Markelle Lance) Study away offers students endless opportunities By Katie Scaff ’13 For PLU students like Global Studies and Anthropology double major Hailey Jung ’13 , studying away is essential…

    foster a variety of skills that will help them be successful when they return to PLU and after they graduate. “Students are actually demonstrating evidence that they are able to move nimbly from one cultural context to another,” Williams explained. Such willingness to participate outside their comfort zone, flexibility, and maturity are the types of qualities that will expand opportunities for students. “The study away experience is an experience that is increasingly being valued by graduate schools

  • Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?”  It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust…

    anyone and published later. The paper is entitled “Bureaucrats, Soldiers and Murderers: Issues of Guilt and Responsibility in Holocaust Literature” and I would like to think that while it does not answer the question of why these patterns occurred it does give some evidence that these patterns are there. I started with an outline, knowing what I needed to read to answer questions about guilt and innocence – that is, I needed volume as well as depth, and historical information on top of literary

  • A group of six students from Taiwan University visited PLU as part of their country’s Young Ambassadors program. (Photo by John Froschauer) Classroom diplomacy By Chris Albert During a history class at PLU, six students from Taiwan University immersed themselves in discussion with PLU students…

    Norway. Their task was to debate the merits of ownership of the Senkaku Islands, which has been an ongoing dispute between Japan, China and Taiwan, with claims of ownership going back centuries. “At the very beginning we asked the students, ‘What makes a good diplomat?'” said Gina Hames, chair of the History Department. Japan and Taiwan made their case, and the Norwegian group was to discuss the merits of each. Ultimately, they learned using evidence to state a point and clarifying meaning are

  • PLU News documents good work Lutes are doing, on and off campus, as they live and pursue lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care.

    Modernizing Mental Health PLU professor and psychology department chair Tiffany Artime and her collaborator from Wellesley College Centers for Women are leading a team of researchers and stakeholders who envision a future where evidence-based trauma treatments are integrated into university counseling services, empowering students to thrive. Artime and… September 6, 2024 Research & AcademicsResoLute