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the idea that Romans or the ancient Greeks would torture someone by strapping them to a wheel and pushing them off a cliff. “Probably didn’t’ happen,” he said, “The Greeks were famous for strapping someone to a wheel and torturing them, but not for rolling them off a hill.” Interestingly, the Greeks and Romans essentially didn’t have prisons. If you were convicted of a crime, the way you would die – by crucifixion, in the Coliseum or the mines – or by beheading (for Roman citizens)– came about

professor Jerrold Lerum. What started as a medical mission morphed into a Ugandan East African Neurosurgery Training Program in August 2009, with Haglund (left) and Dr. Michael Muhumuza of Mulago Hospital serving as co-directors. Haglund said Lerum told him his 3.0 GPA as a biology major after his freshman fall semester  wouldn’t be good enough to get into medical school, and that motivated Haglund to switch to a chemistry major to prove him wrong – which he did. Haglund understood the motivating factor

The Future of Classics at PLU Posted by: Matthew / May 7, 2018 Image: Eric Nelson enjoying a Roman dish at then-student Doug Hinners’ presentation of Roman food and dining for Hinners’ capstone, where he researched ancient food and how it is prepared. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) May 7, 2018 By By Kevin J. O’BrienDean of HumanitiesAs you know, PLU went through a difficult process of prioritization this year, responding to lower enrollments and seeking to proactively budget for a sustainable

”. This photo was taken while we were on a day tour around the entire island of Rhodes on January 26. Taken at the Acropolis of Lindos, a small city on the southeastern edge of Rhodes, our tour guide was showing us the east Mediterranean where ancient trade routes once made their stops due to Lindos being a port city. The students featured, from left to right, are John Meija, Charlie LeWarne, and Logan Grabill. Rhodes, Greece January 26, 20223rd Place Casandra Hebert “Lutes at the Parthenon” This

July 8, 2008 Accepted to med school For those passing through northwest­ern Idaho, here’s hoping you don’t meet Guy Jensen. Jensen is a volunteer emergency medical technician, who, during the summer, is likely to be one of the first people on the scene in the event of a car wreck, wildfire or other emergency on the rural roads near his hometown of Genesee, Idaho, population 900.Jensen, who otherwise works on the family farm when he’s not at PLU, saw this as an opportunity to serve his

After a pandemic hiatus, study away trips returned during J-Term Posted by: Silong Chhun / February 28, 2022 Image: Lutes from the Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean course in Greece (Photo by professor Antonios Finitsis) February 28, 2022 By Isabella Daltoso ’23Marketing and CommunicationsAfter a hiatus last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 65 undergraduate and 22 graduate students from Pacific Lutheran University were able to participate in January term study away trips this year. The

etymologies, such as the Greek roots of “scholar.” Ciardi also wrote memorable poetry, mining the ancient power of words to show that some things human never change. For instance, these lines from his “Credibility,” Who could believe an ant in theory? a giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what’s possible could reason half the jungle out of being. I speak of love, and something more, to say we are the thing that proves itself not against reason, but impossibly true, and therefore to teach reason

March 19, 2009 Teaching by Practicing By the time the class of about 20 students in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at PLU graduate, they will have provided 10,000 hours of community service.“Everyone that we see here is from this community,” said Renee Johnson, a second-year MFT student. By community, she means the greater Parkland, Tacoma and East Pierce County area. It’s a welcomed and much-needed service provided by PLU and its master’s level students. And it also provides real life

Conference in Vancouver, B.C., on March 17. (Photo: TED) Outstanding in Her Very Own Field In remission and back at PLU, Hunt did her Classical Studies Capstone on ancient perceptions of cancer in literary texts. “Nobody’s ever written about it, but it’s definitely there,” she said. “Hippocrates talks about cancer; a lot of ancient Greek, Romans and Egyptians talk about cancer. It’s flabbergasting no one had looked into it further.” After graduation, Hunt moved on to graduate school at Durham University

Student Involvement and Leadership and another staff member guiding students on the trip. “It is looking to our past to understand social change.” Recent movements in the Middle East and North Africa make history about social change relevant and applicable. PLU is taking an active effort in educating students about social change and history’s impact on current society. Each year, the university offers the option for students to use spring break as an opportunity to learn and grow, and this year the