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  • If you have any questions or would like to consult regarding the process or opportunities, please reach out to AVP for Campus Life Tom Huelsbeck (tom.huelsbeck@plu.edu) directly.

    Chicano History Month event $8,481.75 for food trucks and inflatable activities for Lute Fest all campus spring event $1,787.10 to support student participation at the National DECA conference $671.72 to support the Clay Crows student improv group in a regional Improv Festival $11,220 to support renovations of the Cave Commuter Community to provide a dedicated kitchenette and updated furniture $1,700 to support a commencement celebration for Black PLU grads and students $1,300 to the Collective and

  • Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters.

    Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters. Posted by: marshrl / January 8, 2018 January 8, 2018 Travel with our music students in the footsteps of the Masters. Read Previous Concert web streaming of PLU’s annual Christmas Concert, Gloria Read Next Backstage with Violinist Svend Rønning LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 15, 2018) — Hannah Park ’20, an English major at Pacific Lutheran University, is used to translating. The youngest of her siblings, Park says she naturally fell into the role once she was the only one home with her Korean mother, who…

    STARTALK program prepares Lutes and other educators across the state to teach Korean, Chinese Posted by: Kari Plog / August 15, 2018 Image: A STARTALK teacher runs through a Chinese-language lesson plan. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) August 15, 2018 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 15, 2018) — Hannah Park ’20, an English major at Pacific Lutheran University, is used to translating. The youngest of her siblings, Park says she naturally fell into the role once

  • Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are invited to join JTerm Book Group to dialogue about intersections of diversity, justice, and sustainability through a common text.

    essays by Tresie McMillan 2019 Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Antonio Vargas 2018: Radical Hope : Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times by Carolina De Robertis 2017: Black Girl Dangerous : On Race, Queerness, Class and Gender by Mia McKenzie 2016: Citizen : An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine 2015:The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander What Harm I'm Taught, Exploring my whitenessA workshop on whiteness for white people

  • 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…

    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

  • Diving in to “Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis” For the past year and a half, MediaLab students Haley Huntington, Kortney Scroger, Valery Jorgensen and Katie Baumann have traveled throughout North America documenting the importance of water and perils facing our world’s most important…

    wide, on both national and international scales. We kicked off our trip in St. Louis, MO, examining how the drought that has been plaguing the Midwest this year has impacted industry that operates on the Mississippi River. After four days in the heartland of America, our plan was to head south to New Orleans, covering Mississippi related stories on our way and conclude with four days spent around our nation’s most influential port. With a full schedule of interviews and b-roll collecting, this was

  • October is LGBTQIA+ History Month. While we encourage engaging with these topics year-round, October is a special time to reflect on the history of LGBTQIA+ movements, moments, and iconic figures. In this exhibit, the Center for DJS, in collaboration with the PLU Library, is choosing…

    media, on runways, and on screen to promote and delve into these themes. – adapted from adapted from https://www.alokvmenon.com/about “A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,” Audre Lorde [1934-1992] dedicated both her life and her creative talent to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia. Concerned with modern society’s tendency to categorize groups of people, Lorde fought the marginalization of such categories as “lesbian” andblack

  • Auberry Fortuner ’13 and Assistant Professor Bret Underwood did research into understanding what gave rise to the expansion of the universe. (Photo by John Froschauer) Modeling the Early Universe By Katie Scaff ’13 None of us was around for the Big Bang , but one…

    variables in the equations Fortuner has been exploring. His findings show the amount of expansion and energy in the universe over time, and give insight into what parameters affect the physics of the very early universe. Entering numerical codes into a computer program and running simulations for hours day after day wasn’t glamorous, but it’s been an invaluable experience for Fortuner – a physics major who almost failed his first physics class. “When I took Intro to Physics class, the first college

  • In September of 2019, the SCC opened a new exhibit “Living History and Nordic Identity: Bringing the Past to Life in the Present” based on KD Williams’ capstone project for her BA in

    Bringing the Past to Life in the PresentIn September of 2019, the SCC opened a new exhibit “Living History and Nordic Identity: Bringing the Past to Life in the Present” based on KD Williams’ capstone project for her BA in Scandinavian Area Studies, which Dr. Schroeder supervised. The exhibit encouraged visitors to interact with conceptions of the past and Nordic identities by presenting KD Williams’ fieldwork with Viking Age and medievalist re-enactors. Groups that were featured in particular

  • Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation By Barbara Clements The 2010 Wang Center Symposium: Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation, will feature many speakers and topics on the global impact of sports and recreation. Wang Center Symposium: Understanding the World Through Sports and…

    March 1, 2010 Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation By Barbara Clements The 2010 Wang Center Symposium: Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation, will feature many speakers and topics on the global impact of sports and recreation. Wang Center Symposium: Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation, March 4-5. The event, March 4-5, will include a keynote address by Olympic speed skating gold medalist Joey Cheek, who has used the international stage to turn