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  • First, we are glad that you chose PLU. Our mission is to prepare students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care – and we definitely care about you and your growth as a learner, a person, and a historian. Whether you are starting…

    have included the Geopoliticization of Sex with my advisor, Dagmar Herzog, and The Era of the Witness: 20th Century Poland in Firsthand Accounts with Professor Malgorzata Mazurek at Columbia. I also took the American Literature Survey, a year-long intensive introductory course to complete my minor in U.S. history. The professor describes it as half 18th century salon, half bootcamp. Carli outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage, sporting her ID badge as an intern. I could not believe how little I

  • Carson J. Bergstrom, Senior Capstone Seminar A molecular library consisting of triazoles and benzotriazoles, functionalized with amides and nitriles in various substitutions was synthesized.

    weight gain. Links between cancer and aspartame consumption require additional research. Aspartame was found to have a preventative effect on dental cavity formation. Negative neurological effects were also reported in literature. Sucralose use was found to cause weight gain, and type 2 diabetes risk was found to increase with its use. Cancer risk as a result of sucralose consumption requires additional research. Sucralose is an emerging environmental contaminant that could have largely negative

  • if only electronically. We hope that this page will allow alumni to reconnect and current students to meet some of their predecessors. Please email us with pictures and stories to share.

    Institute and State University. After finishing my contract for this job, I moved to China as a volunteer teacher with Pearl S. Buck International. I then extended my stay in China via an internship with the cultural division at UNESCO, Beijing. In late December of 2005, I returned to the US for a brief visit, and this returned to China as a visiting researcher at Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University–working on social impact assessment and ethnic minorities development initiatives with the University’s

  • Henri Coronado-Volta grew up in Seattle, Washington, and chose PLU because the smaller school offered the opportunity to build community, a chance to continue swimming, and living close to home—but not too close. He double majored in global studies and Hispanic studies and minored in…

    through classes and study away programs. Networking opens up many opportunities. While at Seattle Children’s, I was responsible for reaching out to find traumatic brain injury resources in Alaska for a study at Children’s. In the fall of 2022, I did preliminary literature review research and interview-question Spanish translation for a University of Washington palliative care and dementia issues project. As part of that project, I’m helping translate resources for brain injury recovery. I also

  • Sophia Barro ’22 is a senior education major and religion minor at PLU. She recently completed full-time student teaching at Lakeview Hope Academy. We spoke with Barro about her experiences at PLU and as a student teacher, and about the values she hopes to inspire…

    grade, and I have had the privilege and the blessing to be able to observe teaching in the local Catholic schools. I have always said that I want my students to be critical thinkers and social justice leaders. I think it is really important to have diversity responsive literature in classrooms and I always tie in social justice components including identity, justice, diversity, and action in my teaching. I always said that no matter which school I end up working at, I would uphold that same

  • Jeffrey Ebel, Senior Capstone Seminar Solutions of sulfate-stabilized gold nanoparticles (GNP's) were synthesized based on variations to the methods of Davis et al.

    Capstone Seminar A selection of the Ribes genus gooseberry/currant plants native to the Northwest were targeted to extract, isolate, and identify antimicrobial compounds based on ethnobotanical literature. Air-dried roots and stems of R. divaricatum, R. aureum, R. bracteosum, and R. Sanguineum were washed with refluxing petroleum ether and then extracted with methanol. Upon concentration in vacuo, the crude extracts were tested against a variety of Gram-positive and Gram-negative strains of bacteria

  • Dr. Bradley W. Hart, Ph.D. – California State University, Fresno

    Advanced Holocaust Studies (former U.S. Holocaust Research Institute) since 1993. Heberer Rice completed her undergraduate degree in Historical Studies and German Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University as the graduating class’ valedictorian. She conducted her doctoral studies at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Maryland (UMD)-College Park, where Heberer Rice earned a PhD based on her dissertation on the Hadamar killing facility and its role in the Euthanasia program

  • Screening of Three Minutes: A Lengthening, a film based on Glenn Kurtz’s acclaimed book Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film Three minutes of footage are the only

    with Glenn Kurtz, Ph.D. from Stanford University in German Studies and Comparative Literature Dessert Reception – AUC, Regency LobbyThursday, October 27th9:00 a.m. Registration & Coffee – Anderson University Center, Regency Lobby 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. – AUC, Regency RoomJewish Life in Poland: The Best of Times and the Worst of TimesSheryl Ochayon, Project Director, Echoes and Reflections, International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem Mania Cieśla will present On the fields of Grochow. The

  • The Parkland Literacy Center (PLC) is an organization at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) that establishes, implements, and conducts various programs that serve the academic needs of our local

    literacy@plu.edu email address or speak directly with one of the Directors or Assistant Directors. StaffAssistant Director Lydia Downs lydia.downs@plu.edu Lydia is a fourth-year student at PLU. She graduated with double majors in Global Studies and Literature and is currently completing her Masters in Education. She is very passionate about education and has spent many summers as a camp counselor, swim instructor, and swim team coach. This is Lydia’s third year working with the PLC where she has worked

  • Jodie Rottle ’10 Finds Fame Even Without a Direct Roadmap By Shunying Wang ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications As far as Jodie Rottle ’10 can recall, she started to play the flute because her sister randomly suggested it. Good call, Jodie Rottle’s sister. Rottle,…

    career and take it to the next level.” While in Manhattan, Rottle and a couple of friends from the master’s program— Meaghan Burke (cello/voice) and Tristan McKay (piano/harpsichord/toy piano)—founded the new-music ensemble Dead Language, a trio that “seeks out music that has something to say, and says it.” And if that sounds a little wide-ranging, so is Dead Language: The ensemble improvises and performs interdisciplinary works that include everything from literature and white noise to toys and wolf