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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
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While many of their classmates braved a chilly winter back in Parkland, three Lutes sat on a beach in Hawaii watching whales. No, it wasn’t vacation. It was research.
opportunities to showcase student-faculty research. “It’s nice to put forth my research, voice my concerns, and show people topics they might not have thought about.” While many of their classmates braved a chilly winter back in Parkland, three Lutes sat on a beach in Hawaii and witnessed the incredible moment when a humpback whale taught her calf how to breach near the shore. No, it wasn’t vacation. It was research. The group of Pacific Lutheran University students — Mikaela Haglund ’19, Lexi Higgins ’19
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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
patient files have been lost or destroyed, while German privacy laws have 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
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 15, 2016)- Kate Deines ’16 is a natural on the soccer field and has a long résumé to prove it. She played at the local, college, national and international level, garnering recognition until her retirement from the sport in 2015. When Deines…
,” Deines said. She said she felt she had already achieved everything she wanted to achieve in soccer, and she was drawn to finance because it focuses on long-term goals. She said soccer, on the other hand, focused on what needed to happen each day. “I’m a competitive person, and I was ready for something else,” she said. “As I near graduation and get ready to work for a firm, the idea that I am hopefully working my way up to the top motivates me. I enjoy thinking about what climbing that next rung
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Lt. Brian Bradshaw was an understated leader who put everyone else first. Ask anyone who knew him.
stranger in the lobby of a residence hall at Pacific Lutheran University, he insisted the young woman accompany him skiing to cheer her up. Likewise, without a craving for recognition, he took ROTC cadets under his wing, propping them up and helping them excel alongside him until he graduated from PLU in 2007. So, it was unsurprising to those closest to him that Bradshaw died while running to help injured soldiers in his convoy near the border of Pakistan in June 2009, just three months after deploying
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Established in 2022 through a gift from David and Lorilie Steen, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for
, Sky, and Scholarship.” 2015 – Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky, Carolyn Finney delivered her lecture “This Patch of Soil: Race, Nature, and Stories of Future Belonging.” 2014 – Former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire spoke on her record of environmental stewardship. 2013 – Dr. Michael E. Smith, Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University “When Small Was Beautiful: The Ancient History of Resilient Practices” 2012 – Dr. Michael Pavel, Professor of Native
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Study Abroad Religion students at PLU have the opportunity to explore the history and diversity of religion abroad. Greece RELI 213: Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, GreeceExplore the rich history of ancient Mediterranean religious life in Greece. Dr. Antonios Finitsis will be directing this course in Summer 2021 and J-term 2023. Honolulu, Hawaii RELI 132: Religions of East Asia in Honolulu, HawaiiExplore the religious diversity of Asia in one city. This course is on indefinite hiatus
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TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 1, 2016)- Lt. Brian Bradshaw was an understated leader who put everyone else first. Ask anyone who knew him. Instead of walking with his head down past the crying stranger in the lobby of a residence hall at Pacific Lutheran University, he…
in his convoy near the border of Pakistan in June 2009, just three months after deploying to Afghanistan. “Of course that’s how Brian died,” his friend, Dom Calata, recalled thinking as the details of Bradshaw’s death began to surface. “Being a hero.” Still, despite the consistency of character that inevitably put him in harm’s way, Bradshaw’s loved ones never doubted he would come home. His death was the only thing that surprised them. “Brian is immortal,” Calata said to himself through tears as
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Locals embrace Lutes as they meet living legends, learn about vibrant events such as Carnival and Panorama, and develop valuable racial consciousness within a multicultural society that celebrates
’18, who participated in the program spring 2016. “You will come back a different person, whether you realize it or not.” Hughes is still experiencing growth, through the eyes of current Lutes. She’s the on-site program coordinator, based near the University of the West Indies, located just outside Port of Spain. “Candice is a living example of a PLU education living out in the world,” said Greg Youtz, Trinidad program director and professor of music. “It’s a dream team we have working with us in
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Three distinct stories of multiculturalism in Norway share one common desire: belonging despite difference.
prejudices are and what the consequences are,” he said. *** Unlike most middle schoolers, Asta Kvitne’s eighth-graders stick around as long as the teachers will allow them. “They stay here far too long,” Kvitne ’94 quipped. “We have to chase them out.” The assistant principal at Haugerud School, located a short train ride from Oslo’s city center, serves students who represent 68 nationalities and at least as many languages. She says the school has near-perfect attendance for extracurricular events
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