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TACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — The Mayer family has a long, storied history of philanthropic endeavors with Pacific Lutheran University. Natalie Mayer wanted to build on that good work by endowing a lecture series that addressed what she saw as a growing need —…
narrative. “My (hope) is to have scholars and artists come to PLU, spend time with students in their classrooms and to have some sort of community event,” Mayer said. “I would like the community to know what we’re doing at Pacific Lutheran University. This is a way to connect the past genocides to the bigotry and hatred of today’s world, to bridge the past with the present.” First, a little backstory. The late Kurt Mayer, Natalie’s father, escaped Nazi Germany as a child in 1940 on one of the last ships
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News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.
PLU Psychology professor awarded $2.5M to lead implementation of evidence-based trauma treatment Pacific Lutheran University Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Tiffany Artime, Ph.D. has been approved for a $2.5M funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to disseminate and implement research findings on Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation with Narrative Therapy (STAIR-NT)… November 28, 2023 Psychology
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Lutheran education is indelibly marked by a love of liberal and collegial learning. It was, in fact, a group of Wittenberg scholars – working together – who launched the reform of education,
. Indeed, were it not for academic colleagues, friends, and unexpected benefactors, Luther’s reform may well have died quickly. One of Luther’s earliest claims was that every Christian should have access to his or her central religious text, the Bible. Yet he had grown up in a society where most people were illiterate, the Bible was in Latin, and only the educated few were able to read and interpret the ancient book. Thus, in his “Address to the German Nobility” (1520), Luther argued that access to
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The roots of the liberal arts (artes liberales) extend back into classical antiquity. Roman education, for example, progressed from basic literacy (the province of the litterator), to secondary
(410 C.E.). During the Middle Ages, monastic scribes preserved a significant body of ancient learning in Latin. However, more complete Greek learning was preserved only in the Byzantine Empire while Arab culture retained and developed ancient knowledge of numbers. The founding of universities in Europe (Bologna, Paris) established the medieval curriculum of the trivium and quadrivium. These studies provided the foundation for professional studies in Theology, Law, and Medicine. The medieval
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Associate Professor of Music; Director of Jazz Studies | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | cassio.vianna@plu.edu | 253-535-7760 | Cassio Vianna is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where he directs the University Jazz Ensemble and teaches jazz music courses.
received during his years of training. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, a Master of Music degree from Western Oregon University, and a Doctor of Arts degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Northern Colorado, where he studied jazz composition with David Caffey. Dr. Vianna has been featured as a performer/clinician at festivals and conferences in Latin America and across the U.S. He has presented at the Midwest Clinic, Jazz Education
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Associate Professor of Music; Director of Jazz Studies | Music | cassio.vianna@plu.edu | 253-535-7760 | Cassio Vianna is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where he directs the University Jazz Ensemble and teaches jazz music courses.
received during his years of training. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, a Master of Music degree from Western Oregon University, and a Doctor of Arts degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Northern Colorado, where he studied jazz composition with David Caffey. Dr. Vianna has been featured as a performer/clinician at festivals and conferences in Latin America and across the U.S. He has presented at the Midwest Clinic, Jazz Education
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TACOMA, WASH. (July 10, 2019) — Angie Hambrick, PLU’s Assistant Vice President of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability, sits down with anthropology professor and PLU Peace Corps Prep Program Coordinator Katherine Wiley, Hispanic studies professor Giovanna Urdangarain, and anthropology and global studies professor Dr. Ami Shah…
strangerhood” or the feeling of being from a place, but not necessarily of that place. She shares how her experiences interacted with her navigation of her own identity both personally and globally. Giovanna Urdangarain’s research looks at the ways in which countries in the Southern Cone of Latin America experience dictatorships, and the narratives of women that arise out of those circumstances. She speaks to her experience of returning to her home country of Uruguay first to teach through the Peace
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
Seth Dowland Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Phone: 253-535-8125 Email: dowland@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-I Status:On Sabbatical Blog: http://usreligion.blogspot.com/ Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Director, International Honors (IHON) Education Ph.D., American Religions, Duke University, 2007 M.A., American Religions, Duke University, 2004 B.A. with distinction, Religious Studies & History, University of
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Director of IHON | International Honors | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
Seth Dowland Director of IHON Phone: 253-535-8125 Email: dowland@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-I Status:On Sabbatical Blog: http://usreligion.blogspot.com/ Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Education Ph.D., American Religions, Duke University, 2007 M.A., American Religions, Duke University, 2004 B.A. with distinction, Religious Studies & History, University of Virginia, 2001 Areas of
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Director, IHON | Interdisciplinary Programs | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
Seth Dowland Director, IHON Phone: 253-535-8125 Email: dowland@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-I Status:On Sabbatical Blog: http://usreligion.blogspot.com/ Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Education Ph.D., American Religions, Duke University, 2007 M.A., American Religions, Duke University, 2004 B.A. with distinction, Religious Studies & History, University of Virginia, 2001 Areas of
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