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interested in our particular topic as an English professor is in theirs,” Swenson said. “We spend our lives researching and looking, watching the food channels, reading magazines, reading books.” While students are off working, interning and enjoying the summer sun, the Dining staffers are in the kitchen testing out new recipes – it’s a year-round practice, but summer offers a special time for them to really play with food. “I think one of our favorite things to do is look at street food around the world
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did in high school, and those took adjusting. But it was good to get that adjustment and Montevideo – where we stayed – is a small enough city that you can feel safe and have fun. It was a very good “dipping your foot in the water” type experience. It’s also really nice for the Hispanic studies program because it’s language intensive, and the class sped me up through the program in general. A semester in Granada: I loved Granada. Probably my favorite place was Mirador de san Nicolas, which is
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national security interests of the United States. The region includes China, which is rapidly assuming prominence on the global stage. Rare are the days that go by without at least one news story on China. Given PLU’s Chinese language studies, its China summer Service Learning program, as well as other international programs sponsored by the Wang center, I thought I would devote a few minutes to this most fascinating country. For the past 20 years, China’s GDP has grown by an average of 9.0% per year
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Wang Center Photo & Video Contest Winners 2022 Posted by: Holly Senn / March 30, 2022 March 30, 2022 During the 2021-2022 academic year, 149 PLU students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their academic and career trajectory. Due to the worldwide pandemic, 46 students returned home early in spring of 2020 and
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raised in the Inland Northwest of Washington State. After crossing the Cascades, she began working toward a double major in studio art and English literature at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, with the intent of becoming a secondary educator in the field of art or English. While not attending to her own education, she spent her summers away from college teaching preschool and elementary school aged children ne arts at the Corbin Art Center in Spokane, WA. Like the children she taught, art
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professor of religion, published “An Ethics of Biodiversity: Christianity, Ecology and the Variety of Life.” Joanna Gregson, associate professor of sociology, had her book, “The Culture of Teenage Mothers,” published by State University of New York Press. Charles Bergman, professor of English, published a Smithsonian Magazine cover story and essay on “Wildlife Trafficking.” Rick Barot, assistant professor of English, received an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. Dean Waldow
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kits or imaging technologies any time soon. Part of the problem here is the language of health care. American health care is euphemistically vague (physicians “treat” you and “practice” medicine) and it is also focused on sort of a “techno-fix” approach to problems. Got something? Take a pill. Many of the problems in global health can, in fact, be solved by new, innovative technologies. An effective malaria vaccine would be an incredible achievement. But such technological solutions need to be
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Translation LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022
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Carrie Cracknell’s Anne Elliot is a Girl with a Rabbit Posted by: ramosam / September 5, 2022 September 5, 2022 By Adela Ramos As Katherine Voyles’ insightful essay on the discourse around Persuasion (2022) demonstrates, historical inaccuracy has been pegged as one of Carrie Cracknell’s unforgivable misdeeds, especially related to the use of contemporary language and even the protagonist’s bangs. Yet when I finally watched the film, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Cracknell draws on the
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Regent’s Park College, and in Montevideo, Uruguay, where I pursued language training in Spanish.” Matt: “As Marc said, the availability of professors at PLU is awesome, and you can really get to know them. Right off the bat they’re willing to engage you when you find a topic or question that interests you. For me these interactions led to conversations about travel and research, and I have now completed two research fellowships at PLU. I have also visited Italy two times. For a kid from a small town in
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