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New Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna PLU’s music faculty welcomes their newest hire, Cassio Vianna. The native of Brazil brings with him an extensive resume of teaching, composing, and performing jazz music. This year, he’ll begin a new journey channeling his passion into educating and inspiring PLU students as director of… March 14, 2019
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the year. Professor Samuel Torvend, Speaking at the Lutheran Studies Conference in 2014 “It’s very clear in the Rule that every community should be self-sustaining,” said Dr. Torvend. “There were no grocery stores or wholesale food suppliers in the early medieval world. You ate and drank what you grew.” The stability of rural monastic life was an appealing alternative to the urban decay and ongoing military conflict of medieval Italy. “They had no one to rely on but themselves.” St. Benedict of
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Sociology Club president, student government senator, Residence Hall Council president, juvenile rehabilitation intern, strategic planning intern and AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) tutor. She now studies at Gonzaga School of Law and wants to be an advocate for those who cannot advocate for themselves.
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use my title once I graduated because it was so important to her.” The next step in Ceynar’s research will include partnering with female professors in the natural sciences to study how student expectations of professors vary by discipline and gender. This is a growing research field, with more studies on the extra burdens students place on faculty of color, as well. One way Ceynar hopes to help change the way students treat their female professors is by sharing these findings with them
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from school working in another field. “If you’ve been out of college for a few years, jumping back into the grind isn’t easy,” Jones said. To help his peers navigate the challenges of their unconventional college experience, Jones also draws from his military background — especially his short stint at the prison. It spurred a deeper understanding of larger narratives of history, one half of his double major. Passion crosses his face when he talks about his studies. His face lights up and he leans
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, “what does it mean to be human?” Because such a broad question invites innumerable responses, we will focus in particular on two phenomena that shape humanity: religion and violence. Like all IHON 257 course offerings, this course will introduce you to several academic disciplines in the humanities. In particular, we will use the insights and methodologies of theology, cultural studies, religious studies, and history to examine the intersection of religion and violence. The course has two broad
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Scholarship Award, Rachid was a highly accomplished mathematician interested in the fields of delay differential equations, mathematical biology, dynamical systems, and bifurcation theory. Citing his textbook about differential equations (in French) and his vast number of published papers in well-respected journals, his colleagues in mathematics describe him as one of the most active scholars in the department. He earned a doctoral degree, diploma of in-depth studies, and a master’s degree in mathematics
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degrees: one in Anthropology and one in Classical Studies. Katie was a pleasure to have as a student and more than a little inspirational. Hands down, she remains the best artifact illustrator I have mentored since arriving at PLU. Professor Bradford Andrews was Hunt’s anthropology advisor; she credits him—and Ryan—with significantly influencing her career. She still admires them both, and admiration runs two ways, you know. “Katie was a pleasure to have as a student and more than a little
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marginalized groups on campus, my experience as a black individual is not celebrated or appreciated by the university on an institutional level. This is evident by the lack of black faculty members, programs and courses on African-American studies and the overall student demographic makeup. Why was/is the group needed? Bruce Driver ’78: BANTU was a chance for the black students to get together and to get to know each other. There weren’t that many black students on campus, more if you counted those who
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Structure of the University The Components of the Academic Structure of the University College of Health Professions College of Liberal Studies College of Natural Sciences College of Professional Studies (When the terms departments, divisions, schools, colleges, interdisciplinary programs, institutes, and research centers are used, these terms are interchangeable with the faculty members assigned to, or in the case of interdisciplinary programs, affiliated with, these entities meeting in assembly
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