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News for Pacific Lutheran University.
Professor Justin Eckstein wins Rohrer Research Award Congratulations to Justin Eckstein, Assistant Professor of Communication and Director of Debate, who was recently awarded the 2017 Daniel Rohrer Award for Outstanding Research by the American Forensics Association. His research is titled, “Sound Arguments, Argumentation and Advocacy”. Among the most important activities of the… December 14, 2018
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Dear Campus Community: It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you of the sudden passing of Professor of Biology Dr. William Teska, who was found in his home on Saturday, June 25, deceased of natural causes. Bill leaves a lasting legacy…
sustainable development and conservation is an understatement. Bill was a foreign study pioneer developing programs in Central America and the Galapagos Islands in the 1980s at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. While at Furman, he chaired the Latin American Studies concentration, implemented an interdisciplinary program among five departments, and supervised dozens of undergraduate research projects. After several years in the 1990s teaching undergraduate biology, he heard about the
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A Student-Curated Exhibit This semester Dr. Elisabeth Ward has had the privilege of teaching a course for the History Department entitled “Public Museums”.
more about May Day in Scandinavia. One holiday that is celebrated all over the Nordic region, and much of Europe, is May 1st, International Workers Day. Unlike American Labor Day, this has not turned into a casual day to relax; it remains a day when there are marches and protests against inequality. When I was living in Iceland, this holiday surprised me, as did things like how strict laws were about equal representation of women in the workplace. The strong support for workers rights and
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Jacob Taylor-Mosquera ’09 was 18 when he returned to Colombia. Although he considered it a homecoming, it took several more visits for him to truly feel at home.
him to truly feel at home. “I grew frustrated because I couldn’t communicate with people,” Taylor-Mosquera recalled. “There was so much I wanted to ask and learn, but I could barely count to 100 in Spanish.” Taylor-Mosquera was born in Cali, the most populous city in southwest Colombia, but was raised in Gig Harbor, Washington, after being adopted by an American family when he was just a few months old. Now, after several eye-opening trips back — including one in 2004 when he reconnected with his
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Professor of Kinesiology | Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies | hackercm@plu.edu | 253-535-7363 | Dr.
(AASP) National Association of Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) Honor Award Tacoma Pierce County Hall of Fame, The Tacoma Athletic Commission National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers William Bevan Lecture Award, Psychology and Public Policy, The American Psychological Foundation National Award of Excellence, NSCAA Biography Dr. Colleen M. Hacker, Ph.D. Internationally recognized Speaker and Consultant in Performance Psychology Five Time Olympic
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Bestselling author and Ojibwe Indian David Treuer delivered the 2023 Natalie Mayer and Raphael Lemkin lecture.
war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. The violence resulted in more than 100,000 deaths, some 2.5 million displaced, 800,000 destroyed homes, and widespread human rights abuse. Denial of the crimes took place during the genocide and continued immediately after. Memišević is an assistant professor at the Department of Legal History and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo.Dr. Ehlimana Memišević Raphael Lemkin Lecture - Spring 2021Hitler's American Friends - Political
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Bestselling author and Ojibwe Indian David Treuer delivered the 2023 Natalie Mayer and Raphael Lemkin lecture.
war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. The violence resulted in more than 100,000 deaths, some 2.5 million displaced, 800,000 destroyed homes, and widespread human rights abuse. Denial of the crimes took place during the genocide and continued immediately after. Memišević is an assistant professor at the Department of Legal History and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo.Dr. Ehlimana Memišević Raphael Lemkin Lecture - Spring 2021Hitler's American Friends - Political
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The Anderson research group addresses three domains in the physical sciences: chemical reactivity viewed from the microscopic perspective of electron structure, molecular orbitals and reactivities
Ronald and colleagues received the Tech Award for innovative use of technology to benefit humanity. In 2014 she was named one of the world’s most influential scientific minds by Thomson Reuters, in 2015 was selected by Scientific American as one of the world’s 100 most influential people in biotechnology and in 2016 was named one of the 50 innovators and visionaries who will lead us toward a more sustainable future by Grist magazine. Ronald is co-author of Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics
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52% of this year's first-year class identify as a student of color. 42% of all PLU students are students of color.
- 15.1%Asian - 10.9%Two or more races - 10.9%Black/African American - 3.5%Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander - 1.5%Native American/Native Alaskan - 0.4%
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Professor of Geosciences | Earth Science | whitmaj@plu.edu | 253-535-8720
Miami, 1981 B.A., Geology, Middlebury College, 1978 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Marine Geology Geophysics Watershed Analysis Environmental Studies Geoscience Education Selected Articles Pratt-Sitaula, B., Butler, R., Whitman, J., Granshaw, F., Groom, R., Hedeen, C., Magura, B., Thompson, D., and Johnson, J.. "Communicating Regional Geoscience and Geohazards to K-12 Teachers." 2011 Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union 2011: Butler, R. F., Granshaw, F.D., Groom, R., Hedeen, C., Johnson, J
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