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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 11, 2018) — Pacific Lutheran University welcomes the I Am Psyched! National Tour to campus, where it will be housed in the Mortvedt Library until Sept. 24. I Am Psyched! is a multimedia initiative launched by the American Psychological Association Women’s Programs…
Museum Day Live! in 2016. By communicating the topical diversity of the field and the racial, ethnic and cultural diversity of psychologists themselves, we are encouraging young women and girls of color, and all visitors, to consider careers in psychology, use psychology to improve their daily lives and create positive social change in their communities, and to be excited by the museum experience.” To learn more about the history of the exhibit, visit APA’s website. Read Previous STARTALK program
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The Common Reading Selection Committee is delighted to announce that for the 2018-2019 FYEP Common Reading, we will revisit Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates . The text, drawing from an autobiographical account of the author’s youth, is written in the form of…
lecture for first-year students and a symposium through the Wang Center. Published in 2015, the awards won by the author for Between the World and Me include the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. It was also a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The committee would like to continue to highlight the following themes in Between the World and Me: 1. Constructions of race: the social, political, economic and cultural
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TIES Program Update from Joel Zylstra (Director, Center for Community Engagement and Service) The Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester (TIES) program has been discontinued indefinitely. TIES served as one expression of PLU’s long-term commitments to linking global education with our local community. In the early 2000’s,…
characteristics of our community including our ethnic and cultural diversity, the challenges and opportunities associated with being a west coast port city, the presence of Joint Base Lewis McCord, and continual growth and development in our region, CCES and the Wang Center will continue to support student and faculty engagement in Tacoma. Rachel Haxtema (TIES Program Coordinator) will continue to lead these efforts as the program transitions away from a semester-long study away model toward a sustainable
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INMED – Reimagine IndianS into MedicinE (RISE) Summer Academy 2021 The RISE Summer Academy, a 6-week program, will be open to 28 American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) Focus of the RISE Summer Academy: MCAT Prep: The program will provide a full MCAT course through Kaplan to…
Refresher: This coursework will focus on helping RISE Summer Academy students be better prepared to enter medical school. The coursework will be taught by College of Medicine faculty. Cultural Engagement and Community Building: This will include meetings with the WSU Health Sciences Spokane Native American Health Office, AIAN clinical faculty, and visit(s) to an area tribal clinic. Medical Student Mentors: RISE Summer Academy students will have medical student mentors to help guide them through the
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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…
if we could do a real exchange.” And thus, a “real” exchange was implemented. The Trinidadian students would live with the PLU students, take courses alongside them, be immersed in the cultural life of the islands and complete a service-learning project. At the semester’s conclusion, the most promising student would receive a four-year scholarship to PLU, funded jointly by PLU and Trinidad’s Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs. Hughes jumped at the chance. “I learned
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 15, 2016)- Art makes people feel. Art offers a window into the hearts and minds of those who create it, and invokes emotion for those who view and admire it. For Edvard Munch, those feelings were complicated and, often times, dark. “…
Students create Munch-inspired art in conjunction with PLU-sponsored exhibit at Tacoma Art Museum Posted by: Kari Plog / April 15, 2016 Image: Emily White ’17, paints one of two pieces she plans to submit to a student exhibition opening April 23 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University. The work was inspired by Edvard Munch, a Norwegian artist who will be featured at Tacoma Art Museum through July 17. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 15, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU
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Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., succeeds Steven P. Starkovich, Ph.D., as PLU’s chief academic officer TACOMA, WASH. (May 9, 2016) – Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., will join Pacific Lutheran University as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs on Aug. 1, 2016. Brown comes to…
, she led the implementation of a three-year university retention strategic plan. “We are delighted to welcome Rae Linda to PLU, and we look forward to applying her vision and experience to advancing the distinctive mission of PLU,” said PLU President Thomas W. Krise, Ph.D. Brown earned a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Connecticut in 1976; an M.A. in African American Studies and Music from Yale University in 1980; and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Yale in 1987. She was also an American
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Close to 50,000 Jewish refugees fled to Argentina during the rise of Nazism and World War II. In fact, between 1933 and 1945, Argentina received more Jewish refugees per capita than any other nation in the world, except Palestine. But to most – outside of…
the reason that Ellie Dieringer ’23, a global studies and Hispanic and Latino studies double major, decided to pursue research in this area. Throughout her time at PLU, she focused her global lens on Latin America — specifically Argentina and Uruguay. “Part of what drew me to the research I’m doing is the relationships between institutions and the stories they decide to tell,” she explains. During her freshman year at PLU, Dieringer headed to Uruguay for a month-long study abroad trip. While
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We are excited to announce the course will be taught by Professor Shelly Cano Kurtz, a PLU alumna with extensive experience in the field. Shelly is a 5x founder, author, CXO, and advisor with a focus on the $3T social impact sector. She has worked…
course will teach students how to manage innovation to create and deliver new programs, solutions, incubators and even purpose-built companies. There will be a special focus on changemaking and tech for good. Students will learn through a mix of case studies, research, presentations, group projects and creative whiteboarding sessions. The management focus of the course will be an exploration of the innovation process – how to generate ideas, evaluate them, and manage them through to implementation
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Associate Professor of Biology Jacob Egge works with students during a summer semester research project. (Photo by PLU Photographer John Froschauer) Faculty-Student Research Provides a Cornerstone of the PLU Mission By Pacific Lutheran University Marketing & Communications and the Office of the Provost This year’s…
: Assessing the Development of Community in Mixed-Income Housing Severtson Fellowship Salishan is a public housing development on the eastside of Tacoma that historically had high rates of poverty and reputation of crime. Despite these challenges, the community came together across language and cultural barriers. Tacoma Housing Authority received a grant to redevelop Salishan to replace outdated, poorly constructed housing and create a mixed-income community. The community continues to undergo changes in
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