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Powell-Heller Conference explores before, during and after the Holocaust Posted by: Silong Chhun / October 7, 2022 October 7, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing & CommunicationsThe 14th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education will occur on October 26-28, 2022 at Pacific Lutheran University.This year the conference theme is “Jewish Life in Poland: Before, During and After the Holocaust.” The keynote speaker is professor of history Jan Grabowski from the University of Ottawa

In the Eye of the Beholder: Georgiana and her Portrait Posted by: ramosam / July 26, 2022 July 26, 2022 By Elsa Kienberger If season two of Sanditon showed us anything, it is that the eyes are easily deceived. After a season full of emotional manipulation through gaslighting and rakes disguised as men of gentility, the final episode retained a few surprises, including the revelation that Charles Lockhart (Alexander Vlahos) himself was the heinous family relation after Georgiana’s inheritance

February 12, 2013 Editor’s note: PLU students will be live Tweeting the event, join in the conversation by following the hashtag #rockthecasbah from the PLU News Twitter account. If you are not able to attend checkout plu.edu for a live webstream of the event. Ambassador Chris Stevens Memorial Lecture Award-winning journalist Robin Wright will share her views on the Islamic world and talks about her friendship with Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in Libya on the anniversary of 9-11

has led me to a new project at PLU, too. I’m really fortunate to be working with a wonderful group of faculty and staff on developing an interdisciplinary program in Native American and Indigenous Studies here. My PLU colleagues in this project are Professors Suzanne Crawford-O’Brien (Religion), David Huelsbeck (Anthropology) and Carmiña Palerm (Hispanic Studies), as well as Angie Hambrick, Director of the Diversity Center. Working with partners and fellow educators in several Native American

., a small town which clings a point of land on the Olympic Peninsula. Each is carrying a sensitive directional microphone aimed at the canopy of a Sitka Spruce stand. About 100 feet above the trail, a chit-chit-chit sound drifts down. It’s the call of a particular type of North American Crossbill-unglamorously named “call type 10.” Predictably, the types range from one through ten, with type 10, the elusive bird over our head, having been described in scientific literature only 18 months ago

January 1, 2013 Chair’s report on scholarships and activities By Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Bob Ericksen received several notable invitations this year, including an opportunity to give the annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture at the University of Vermont. Hilberg spent his entire career at this university, becoming the father of Holocaust Studies with his groundbreaking book, The Destruction of the European Jews (1961). Erickson arrived in Vermont the weekend

September 1, 2009 Knee deep in love When Linnea Olson came down to her top-two college choices, one was near her hometown of Rochester, Minn. Another was across the country in the Pacific Northwest. So, she decided to surprise herself and do something different. She came out west to PLU. Linnea has always loved the outdoors and considers Minnesota one of the more beautiful places she’s been. But when she came to the Pacific Northwest, it was like nothing she imagined. She loves the trees. She

PLU selected for American Passport Project Posted by: vcraker / June 28, 2022 Image: Photo courtesy: Emily Metzler in Oxford June 28, 2022 Pacific Lutheran University was recently selected to participate in the second cohort of the Institute of International Education (IIE) American Passport Project. Through this initiative, 25 eligible PLU students who have never had a U.S. passport, will get one free of charge. PLU was one of 40 institutions in the United States to be selected. “We’re honored

Scholarships from the American Chemical Society Puget Sound Section – Deadline April 1 Posted by: Craig Fryhle / March 15, 2015 March 15, 2015 The Puget Sound Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS PSS) awards two $1500 scholarships to chemistry majors studying at 4-year colleges and universities in the Puget Sound Section of the ACS.   This scholarship is named after Julia Rutherford, a PLU chemistry major who was very active in the American Chemical Society and who died in 2011.   The

Renzhi Cao innovates in the classroom Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Lisa Patterson ’98ResoLute ContributorIf you search for the CV of Assistant Professor of Computer Science Renzhi Cao, Ph.D., you’ll find a list of published research papers longer than Foss Field. He says it’s a great feeling when a new piece of research is published. But what he finds most rewarding is bringing his students alongside and sharing with them the value of hard work, hands-on learning