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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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The conventional wisdom around the most recent cinematic take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion (2022) hardened almost immediately. Too Fleabag- y, too Bridgerton -y, and not Austen-y or Persuasion -y enough to tempt me was the consensus. I focus here mainly on U.S. based publications and…
, but talk directly to the camera, throwing it pithy glances and rolling her eyes in response to her obnoxious relatives. She’s a Regency-era ‘Fleabag,’ even though that characterization is at total odds with the original character.” I’m not entirely sure, however, that Austen’s golden prose is as fully at odds with the movie’s debt to Fleabag as some reviewers suggest. It’s at least worth entertaining the notion that Anne narrates Cracknell’s version because in important respects Anne narrates
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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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9:15 – 10:20 a.m. | March 9 Who: Eamonn Baker, Training Co-ordinator, Towards Understanding and Healing
Center at the University of California, Davis. An expert in Mexican and Mexican American cultural studies and gender/sexuality and migration studies, since 2016 he has coordinated the Humanizing Deportation digital storytelling project. The Humanizing Deportation Project: Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge, a collaborative project by members of the its research team, is forthcoming in 2022 from University of Texas Press. Publications: Humanizing Deportation Website: https
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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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Twenty-five years ago, the Makah Nation successfully hunted a gray whale. This action drew the ire of animal rights activists who often rooted their criticism in racism and stereotypes of Indigenous
, this talk will focus on Makah statements and actions from the eighteenth century onward that illustrate how they have made and continue to maintain the surrounding marine waters as their own.Joshua L. ReidSpeaker: Joshua L Reid was born and raised in Washington and is a registered member of the Snohomish Indian Nation. Reid is currently an associate professor of American Indian Studies and the John Calhoun Smith Memorial Endowed Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. Reid’s
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Emma Lazarus called America the “mother of exiles” in her poem, “The New Colossus,” which graces the Statue of Liberty.
Mother of Exiles The 45th Annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial LectureMother of Exiles - Refugees in American Myth and HistoryEmma Lazarus called America the “mother of exiles” in her poem, “The New Colossus,” which graces the Statue of Liberty. This lecture examines the enduring idea of America as a land of hope and refuge for the persecuted and oppressed. It goes beyond the familiar narrative of the Puritan settlers to think about how the idea of asylum has historically justified and
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