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  • Can learning to code be described as a social movement in American history? PLU Professor Michael Halvorson thinks so. His reflections on the subject were recorded as part of PLU’s Homecoming and Family Week, which presented several lectures by the PLU faculty for the Lute…

    lecture presented arguments from Halvorson’s most recent book, Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America (2020). It can be viewed now on PLU’s YouTube Channel, at https://youtu.be/mqsrEYMwR6w. Code Nation is a five-year research project that grew out of Halvorson’s work with the Innovation Studies program and his duties as Benson Family Chair of Business and Economic History at PLU. The book explores the business and technical history of computer programming in

  • One smoky August afternoon Dr Beth Kraig and I decided to beat the heat and take shelter in the cooling confines of the University of Washington, Tacoma library, to have a cheery chat about plagues. We thought this would be a fun topic to discuss,…

    Melbourne University during a particularly challenging moment for Australian historians. In 2002, a historian named Keith Windshuttle published a book called The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, which claimed that historians had grossly exaggerated the extent of frontier violence against Aborigines in colonial AustraliaSo I went to the University of Oxford for doctoral research on Elizabethan diplomacy, while Beth traveled to Bellingham to complete her MA in History, then to Chicago for an MA in

  • Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), describes a society whose members, constantly fearing the loss of personal reputation, ask themselves this question like a reprimand: What will people say? The title’s timeless alliteration also displays how words shape reputation’s near relation–memory. Soniah Kamal’s Unmarriageable (2019),…

    through the aftermath of British rule and the imprint of the English language on the multiple languages spoken in the country. Simultaneously, the novel challenges Britain to redress its colonial history. Kamal is under no allegiance to false unification. She represents the pluralistic perspectives of Pakistan through a diverse cast of characters. Her novel aims to unsettle the British literary canon in order to make a place for itself, more characters of color, and non-English languages not only in

  • PLU’s MediaLab takes on ‘compassion fatigue’ Compassion fatigue is a condition people have never heard of, and MediaLab is striving to make people aware through its next documentary project. “We thought it was an interesting topic that isn’t talked about and everyone should know about…

    interviewing experts around North America. “There are only five known compassion fatigue experts in North America,” junior Anne Walters-Cooke, another MediaLab filmmaker, said. “There are so many different definitions. It’s a really new idea.” During J-Term, Scaff and Walters-Cooke, along with juniors Hailey Rile and Elizabeth Hertzfeldt-Kamprath, travelled to New Orleans to begin filming for the project. They interviewed victims and aid workers who were involved with and affected by Hurricane Katrina. For

  • [Exhibit has closed.] This exhibit is comprised of books by Black authors who discuss and analyze race and racism. The books are recent contributions to scholarship and narrative, most having been published since 2019. Book topics include feminism, fatigue, discourse, vilification, education, real estate, racism…

    animates our way of living and how the racism that causes it shapes social structures and affects the distribution of advantage and disadvantage.” —Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, and Chair, Department of African American Studies, Princeton University (from Amazon.com) Blake, Felice, Paula Ioanide, and Alison Rose Reed. Antiracism Inc. : Why the Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters. Santa Barbara, California: Punctum Books

  • MediaLab wins Emmy award Four student researcher-filmmakers in Pacific Lutheran University’s MediaLab program won a 2009 College Division Emmy Award at the 46th Annual Northwest Regional Emmy Awards Ceremony. Junior Melissa Campbell and seniors Julie Olds, Shannon Schrecengost and Emilie Firn were honored for their…

    America. The documentary won in the News Long Form category, competing against colleges and universities from Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Research on “Illicit Exchanges” began in October 2007, and the team began conducting interviews and filming in January 2008. The team traveled nearly 10,000 miles across North America, devoted the spring and summer months to documenting the transfers and effects of illegal drugs and firearms that cross the U.S. and Canadian border. Their work

  • By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)— The Garfield Book Company at Pacific Lutheran University will host Seattle-based novelist Tracy Weber on Friday, Feb 6, at 6 p.m.   Weber will read from her new novel, A Killer Retreat , the…

    , New York Times bestselling author of the Domestic Diva and Paws and Claws mysteries. “A well-crafted whodunit with an intriguing mystery and a zinger of a twist at the end!”  Weber is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, The Pacific Northwest Writers Association and the Dog Writers Association of America. Weber’s first-time visit to PLU will be the only Pierce County stop on a ten-city tour of Washington state. Read Previous PLU Idol Competition Takes to the Stage During J

  • TACOMA, Wash. (May 23, 2015)— As part of his official visit to Washington and Alaska in May, His Majesty King Harald V of Norway spoke at Pacific Lutheran University’s Commencement ceremony, where he received a Doctor of Laws jure dignitatis. His Majesty King Harald V…

    , you now have your diplomas in your hand. You have reached your first major destination, and for that I would like to congratulate each and every one of you.  *** I have always admired men and women who are dedicated to making a difference, striving for a better life, and seeking to fulfil their dreams. Many Norwegian immigrants to America were such men and women. Pacific Lutheran University is the fulfilment of a dream that Norwegian immigrants brought with them to the Pacific Northwest in the

  • 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…

    the hearts of many PLU students, fellow faculty members, and a wide circle of friends around the world who had the good fortune to study with him throughout Central and South America. Bill began his service as Professor of Biology at PLU in July 2000.  He served as Associate Provost from his arrival at PLU in 2000 to June 2003, and as Chair of PLU’s Environmental Studies Program from August 2007 to February 2014. To say that Bill was tirelessly dedicated to teaching, scientific research, and

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