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  • Fr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., of the history department at Boston College will speak about his explorations of a heretofore unknown set of intelligence relationships involving Nazi, British, and

    ensured that the bulk of these records remained inaccessible to researchers. Utilizing patient files from the Bezirkskrankenhaus Kaufbeuren, formerly a notorious “euthanasia” facility near Augsburg, this presentation will offer a much-needed perspective to a field in which the analysis of process and perpetrator often precludes important questions about the victims themselves.Dr. Patricia Heberer-RiceDr. Heberer Rice is one of the leading scholars on the Nazi Euthanasia murders. She has been based at

  • By Sarah Cornell-Maier ‘19.  This Fall, Pacific Lutheran University is introducing a new class that serves as a gateway to the Innovation Studies Program . Hist/Phil 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society is a team-taught course that combines many different fields of study into one. It…

    this week (Sept 5th), Hist 248/Phil 248 is near capacity with 56 students registered between the courses. The new class is drawing participants from a variety of majors on campus and also includes a healthy number of undecided majors and first-year students. It is especially helpful to start the college experience with a team-based curriculum like this. Halvorson described a few of the activities that the students will be doing. “The Innovation Studies program is sponsoring a new creative

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2018)- For Gracie Anderson ’21, activism is a family affair. The Pacific Lutheran University student addressed a crowd of roughly 100 community members for the “Will Washington Be Next” rally protesting gun violence on March 14. Her mother passed out posters…

    office in the near future, hopefully in her home 22nd Legislative District in Thurston County. “I’m just waiting for it to open up. I just love our state legislature so much,” Anderson said. “And I ran a campaign this summer for (Olympia) City Council so I have kind of an idea of how campaigning works and it would just be fun to try.” Anderson’s credentials certainly are impressive. She is a member of the state Legislative Youth Advisory Council, she led a march for education funding, and she is

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 23, 2018) — After living in the U.S. for seven years, Sunny Huang ’18 took the oath of allegiance Jan. 29 against a backdrop of American flags. She completed the yearlong naturalization process to become a U.S. citizen. The ceremony came months…

    medical school applications, formidable biochemistry courses and an upcoming commencement ceremony, she continues to find time for her passion to help others. Huang volunteers at the Browns Point/Dash Point Fire Department, located near the Port of Tacoma. She pulls 12-hour shifts as an emergency medical technician. Her volunteer work has enabled her to hone her skills through practical experience. She also has found a community – a family – that she says supports and encourages her to do better. She

  • Nancy Nelson’s path to a career in education was a nontraditional one. So it’s no surprise that her journey led her to a special kind of school. Since fall 2020, Nelson has served as director of career and technical education (CTE) at Chief Leschi Schools,…

    . Nelson says that 70 -80% of Leschi students take some CTE classes. CTE also helps high school students toward graduation. A two-year CTE pathway can substitute for state test scores in meeting graduation requirements, Nelson says. “This is something kids can get excited about,” Nelson says. “It’s hard to get them excited about standardized test scores.” Five years ago, the high school’s four-year graduation rate hovered near 60 percent. Last year, 90 percent of Leschi’s high school students graduated

  • Jasneet Sandhu had planned to minor in global studies. But soon into her PLU experience, she decided to double major in it, along with computer science. She added anthropology and religion as double minors—as part of a strategy to enjoy her college experience at a…

    international interests while staying near her family and community.Pursuing the personal and politicalSandhu’s passions for global studies, anthropology and religion are rooted in her family’s history and background as Punjabi Sikhs. Her father was born and raised in the United States, while her mother immigrated from Punjab, India. Sandhu is the oldest of four children—three sisters and one brother—ranging from 20 to 9, all deeply involved in their community. The Sikh population faced genocide in India’s

  • Once you’ve registered for classes, the next step is securing course materials.  We encourage students to have a plan for accessing all the course materials you need at least a month in advance to

    .   This service is available through the Lute Locker online bookstore site. Most rental textbooks will need to be returned by a certain date.  If the retailer provided you with a shipping label from USPS, UPS, or Fed Ex, you may take any textbooks to the Customer Service Center, located on lower campus, near Morken. Consider donating any textbooks you cannot return.  There are donation boxes located in the library towards the end of each semester.  The SurPLUs store will take items as well, like

  • By Sarah Cornell-Maier ‘19.  This Fall, Pacific Lutheran University is introducing a new history class that serves as a gateway to the Innovation Studies Program . Hist/Phil 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society is a team-taught course that combines many different fields of study into one.…

    /Phil 248 is near capacity with 56 students registered between the courses. The new class is drawing participants from a variety of majors on campus and also includes a healthy number of undecided majors and first-year students. It is especially helpful to start the college experience with a team-based curriculum like this. Halvorson described a few of the activities that the students will be doing. “The Innovation Studies program is sponsoring a new creative makerspace in Hinderlie Hall, and our

  • Occasionally, we are fortunate enough to find things that are more exciting than what we are searching for. This is certainly true for Dr. Jen Jenkins, Associate Professor of German in the Languages and Literature Department at Pacific Lutheran University. Dr. Jenkins spent the 2016-2017…

    month of March 2017 for further archival research. She has a series of forthcoming articles on these three rediscovered works by Hermann Broch. Because of these fascinating discoveries, her original project of investigating the visual tropes in Broch’s work has been put on hold. She plans to return to this project in the near future. Dr. Jenkins had two texts (an edition and a scholarly article) about Broch published in September 2017 in Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und

  • Major in Philosophy Minimum of 32 semester hours, including: PHIL 499 Two courses from: PHIL 311, 312, 313, 314 Five additional PHIL lower- or upper-division courses (20 semester hours) GLST 325 may

    essential to understand the emergency and dominant discourse of human rights post 1948. (4) PHIL 231 : Ancient Philosophy - VW The development of philosophical thought and methods from the Pre-Socratic period to the end of the fourth century CE. Emphasis on Plato and Aristotle. (4) PHIL 238 : Existentialism and the Meaning of Life - VW An introduction to the philosophical movement known as Existentialism. The course will explore themes central to human experience (such as alienation, guilt, suffering