Search

Experiences for Kids`` and will be followed by a Q&A session with Medina. A Newbery Medal and Pura Belpré winner, Medina is a children’s, middle grade, and young adult author of Cuban descent whose books celebrate Latinx culture and the lives of young people. She serves on the National Board of Advisors for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and is a faculty member of Hamline University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Children’s Literature. Her works have been called “heartbreaking

, and enthusiastic. She has been teaching for 28 years, at PLU since 2008, and regards herself as lucky to be part of a faculty, and a community, that was supported, because she had training in online teaching, and had participated in Inclusive Teaching seminars before and during the pandemic. Born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, Dr. Urdangarain obtained her BA in Comparative Literature and Secondary Education  in 1991. She taught at a high school level for seven years until relocating to the

professional publications. An Atlanta-based physician and epidemiologist, Foege and colleagues founded the Task Force for Child Survival in 1984. While at the CDC, he forced drug companies to warn that aspirin might cause the sometimes-deadly Reye Syndrome, reacted quickly to alert women to the dangers of toxic shock syndrome and saw the first cases of a frightening new disease in the early 1980s: AIDS. Over his career, he has been, quite simply, recognized as one of the most important figures in public

help combat these different bacteria and viruses that invade our bodies. I believe that there’s definitely power in knowledge as it tremendously aids us in making sound decisions.How would you use this degree in your future career? There are a few avenues that I can see myself doing after I graduate. My family has always been passionate about helping people through medical mission trips. I am thrilled to see myself being in the frontline, directly interacting and delivering health and medical

Rialto Theater in Tacoma. The event will highlight the need for collaboration between Africa and America, and it will help raise funds for 12 orphans living in Nairobi, Kenya, who lost their parents to HIV/AIDS. It features entertainment by Saul Williams, poet, actor, author and humanitarian; 2021, a positive hip-hop crew; Reality Check, a dance troupe and youth outreach organization; Peacetime Armory, specializing in music and poetry; Naomi Kimani, Kenya’s 2007 Best New Teen Talent; and work by

, early American, and 17th- and 18th-century British literature. He has served as General Editor of the McNair Papers monograph series and Managing Editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. He has published numerous articles and other works, including Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 (University of Chicago Press). Krise will arrive at PLU in June to assume the presidency. He succeeds Loren J. Anderson who will leave

January 24, 2014 PLU concert celebrates Black History Month Pacific Lutheran University pays tribute to the artistic entrepreneurship of African Americans with a Black History Month Concert that celebrates a lasting legacy of music, literature and art. Covering a rich tapestry of gospel, blues, jazz and concert works, along with recitations from classic African-American literature, the concert will feature PLU student ensembles—including the University Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Jazz

Gates Foundation, and serves as the advocate for the foundation’s key issues, which includes education and world health, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention. Tuesday night, Gates spoke on campus about his new book, “Showing up for Life, Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime.” In small vignettes, Gates discusses lessons learned growing up in Bremerton, Wash., serving in WWII, getting his law degree, marrying, raising a family, and now of course, being father to one of the most

History majors chose John Kelly’s The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (2006) as their parting gift from us. Had the state of the world degraded so badly that our students had developed morbid obsessions? Or did they see a connection, as Beth (who specializes in 20th Century US History) did, between global anxieties about AIDS, Ebola, and flu pandemics, and the devastating bubonic plague, which wiped out 25 million people in Asia and

unspeakable violence—and in the community, classrooms and concerns of Pacific Lutheran University. That’s especially true this year, as PLU’s 2015-16 Spotlight Series focuses on Roots of Resilience, based on a quote popularized by Martin Luther King Jr. and inspired by Martin Luther: “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” Dozens of campus events, ranging from a one-man play about a brother’s death from AIDS to February’s Wang Center Symposium, will