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  • John Evanishyn ‘21 grew up in Tacoma, exploring Point Defiance Park, Ruston Way waterfront and other urban green spaces. By high school, he had learned enough from his dad to become a skilled forager, someone who knew his capstones from his shaggy ink caps. (Those…

    creativity, writing a column for The Mast that was based on his experiences studying abroad. Evanishyn’s overseas experiences included a year in Aix-en-Provence, France, a Tacoma-sized city located about 20 miles from Marseilles. There he studied subjects ranging from European literature to the ecology of the Mediterranean Sea, all the while soaking up the majestic ambiance of France’s wine country. “It’s a really beautiful area,” he said. “There’s a very dry, beautiful mountain (Mont Sainte-Victoire

  • Philosophy professor Adam Arnold is a new addition to PLU’s faculty. Originally from the Tacoma area, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, Tacoma in 2009. From there, he earned the opportunity to study away at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University…

    undergraduate.  “I didn’t really know what I wanted to study. Philosophy was something I had always interacted with but didn’t really have a name for. Then I took this philosophy class and it was like oh, this is what I have been interested in.” Dr. Arnold says, “Broadly speaking, all areas of the academy and education have elements of philosophy to them. You could do the philosophy of just about anything: physics, religion, literature etc. I don’t think philosophy is done only in its department. The way it

  • Nancy Simpson-Younger sits at her desk, poised to explain how communicating remotely is completely different from speaking face-to-face, when a loud bang sounds from behind her. She laughs. “That was my cat knocking the little whiteboard off the back of the bookshelf.” She considers the…

    the idea for the book while they were doing research together at the Folger Shakespeare Library a few years ago. “We were doing some research into handwriting and paleography, but we realized that we both had an interest in consciousness and what it meant to be awake and what it meant to be asleep, and the philosophical implications of that, as they manifested in literature.” Professor Nancy Simpson-Younger Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance CoEdited by Nancy

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 23, 2016)- Imagine using bananas and a circuit board to create a piano. Absurd? Thanks to the maker movement and some creative minds, it isn’t. Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Education & Kinesiology is bringing that creative spirit to campus April 12…

    the fire.” Conn McQuinn is the director of educational technology for Puget Sound Educational Service District, which partnered with PLU’s School of Education to host the Benson Lecture workshop. McQuinn said school-based makerspaces, prompted by teachers who are exposed to the movement, will encourage kids at a young age to work toward careers in STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics. “Much of the modern economy is being driven by people who are inventing and creating their own

  • The trials, tribulations, and big questions that confounded 16th century Europeans as they faced the bubonic plague are eerily similar to what we are facing right now with COVID-19 and other social issues. German professor and priest, Martin Luther, had a lot of ideas of…

    words on the responsibilities of those who govern, provide healthcare, and care for family and friends. Tuesday, December 15 at 6 p.m.Why Study Religion? Luther talked about those who were flippant about the plague and “too rash and reckless” during it. Can you briefly explain this part of his argument, and how it parallels current events? So, we have the advantage of modern science. And what is so striking to me and horrific to me would be political leaders not paying any attention to medical

  • Global studies major Cora Beeson ’24 spent four months in Indonesia last spring for a study abroad semester. Little did she know the research she conducted there would lead to a presentation at the esteemed 2024 Human Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame’s…

    . Mikhiela Sherrod, the director of US domestic programs for hunger relief organization Oxfam America, was both the conference’s keynote speaker and the moderator for Beeson’s panel. The panel on female empowerment in organizations brought Beeson together with students who compared modern women’s cooperatives and researched girls’ education in Kenya. “It was rewarding to be part of this conference,” Beeson says. “I had the opportunity for my research to be acknowledged on this scale.” Beeson’s research

  • Exchange program enriches campus living and learning Six years ago, Candice Hughes ’08 realized that, despite her ambition, college just wasn’t in the cards. As consolation, the Trinidad and Tobago native dreamed of figuring out a way to go back to school part-time in a…

    learned a great deal about her culture. Culture is a key theme of the program. Due largely to its colonial past, Trinidad and Tobago are home to a rich mix of religions and ethnicities, from African and East Indian to Chinese, Syrian and Portuguese. Trinidadians express great pride in their diversity through a variety of festivals. The PLU program is designed to explain the deeper historical roots that anchor these festivals, Temple-Thurston said. According to Hughes, the knowledge she gained in the

  • What if, by donating just an hour of your time, you could change someone’s life. Twenty years ago, while still attending her Central California high school, Kristina Garabedian heard about a pastor’s intriguing invitation. The pastor asked church members to reach under the pews and…

    in business, global studies and Chinese studies. But she later decided to go to law school for a J.D. from San Joaquin College of Law in 2014. To pay the bills and raise more cash for her philanthropic goals, she works as an attorney at CSAA Insurance Group. “I like helping people,” she says of her work as a defense attorney. “I want to get rich not to have a lot of things, but to give away money and help others,” she says. “That’s my priority.” Somehow, Garabedian has balanced work with more

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0eHyaJ26Ks Patience and a good ear essential in studying elusive crossbills, which live, breed and sing in the canopy By Barbara Clements Having a conversation with Julie Smith is a stop and go affair. In mid-conversation, she’ll stop, and listen. And then pick up the…

    ., 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

  • Immigrant described as ‘crawling’ causes professor to take a closer look By Chris Albert, University Communications Adela Ramos will never forget the day when, as a graduate student at Columbia University in New York City, she was reading a “New York Times” article about a…

    and how it is used in literature since her time as an undergraduate student at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. It began with a teacher who brought to life 18th century British novels – and in particular, the role women played in the development of such novels. Her interest in understanding how women are portrayed, led Ramos to become interested in how language is used to describe other things. “When I was in grad school, I started to focus my work on animals and how they are portrayed in