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The Importance of Dead Languages Posted by: hoskinsk / May 6, 2020 Image: Beowulf manuscript May 6, 2020 By Reece Schatz '22English MajorAs a professor in the Department of Languages and Literature, Dr. Collin Brown teaches Norwegian language and Nordic studies at Pacific Lutheran University. However, his love for his work runs so deep, he also started and manages a club called “The Dead Languages Society.”As a member of this club myself, allow me to explain what we do. The Dead Languages
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two-year grant through the Murdoch College Research Program for Life Sciences that covers work by the students and professor from June 2011 through May 2013. As part of the grant agreement, PLU supported sending the group this past summer to a meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Austin, Texas. At the ASPB meeting the students were able to present their research to Washington State University scientist Bryan Thines, who has done groundbreaking research in jasmonic acid signaling
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celebration of the secular was every bit as important as the sacred. The two came into dialog, one whose fiery confrontation has not yet gone cold. Certainly, the roots of the modern Western university are buried deep in this tradition, and out of those roots stem such intellectual achievements as Kant’s magnificent critiques and the poetry of Goethe.Ours, however, is a time when word usage supplants etymology and neologisms abound in word-play—for good and for ill. May they be for the Good! So, the
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aware of how much energy you’re using,” and, “ask yourself, ‘do I need this right now?’” In addition to turning off the lights, Pfohl stresses the importance of unplugging devices when they’re not in use. So-called phantom loads continue to draw energy even though the device is turned off. In an effort to increase awareness, results for each hall will be displayed in a chalk mural outside the Anderson University Center. The mural features each hall’s average energy use based on past years and will
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strained relationships among those of different races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, and social classes. (Exhibit closed March 17, 2020.) This exhibit supports the 9th Wang Center Symposium: Disarming Polarization: Navigating Conflict and Difference. The symposium takes place March 5-6, 2020 in PLU’s Anderson University Center. Read Previous On Exhibit: Books from the Collection about Food Read Next On Exhibit – Black History Month: Black@PLU LATEST POSTS On Exhibit: Veterans
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Nicole Jordan ’15 discusses her new role at PLU’s Center for Gender Equity Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 10, 2020 Image: Nicole Jordan is the coordinator of PLU’s Center for Gender Equity. (Photo/John Froschauer) March 10, 2020 By Lisa Patterson '98Marketing & Communications Guest WriterTACOMA, WASH. (March. 10, 2020) — Nicole Jordan ’15 is back on campus, this time using the degree she earned in social work to help educate and lead others in her new position as coordinator for PLU’s
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collaborate across departments to bring forth rich and intersectional programming, and more work has prepared me to do that. Tell us more about your role at PLU as the coordinator of the Center for Gender Equity. I also support Queer programming for students across campus by partnering with various student leaders. Advocacy services are centered around encouraging the empowerment of victim-survivors during their healing process, supporting friends and family, and providing education about the issues
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Harstad Hall, and Clover Creek flowed freely through the center of campus. She has continued to bring groups of young conservationists to campus in the last several years to teach them about the flora and fauna that remain PLU. “I am so pleased that colleges like PLU are doing so much to make a sustainable world,” she said. “It’s wonderful to see happening because it’s just so necessary.” Read Previous Recognized for top study away programs Read Next Polar adventure COMMENTS*Note: All comments are
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What’s in our room? Take a tour of Tingelstad. Posted by: vcraker / April 21, 2023 April 21, 2023 Jordan Vanni ’25 gives us a tour of her room in Tingelstad Hall. This is the largest residence hall on campus, both in size and number of students, with space for up to about 360 residents. Tingelstad is close to the University Center and Names Fitness Center. It is home to the Wellness House and the STEM House. Tingelstad is also home to one of two Gender Inclusive wings on campus, providing safe
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conversation the two had a few days earlier: Have you ever read a romance novel? Gregson hadn’t. And she would fully admit that she was like many other people: She assumed romance novels were easy reads, brainless formulaic pop. Then, the box of novels arrived. She read one. And a research topic was born. Gregson and her friend, professor Jennifer Lois of Western Washington University, decided they wanted to study the writers of the romance genre, of which about 95 percent are women. Sure, the novels had
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