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diverse children of different ages. A date has not yet been set for her presentation. And the last speaker in the 2014-15 series will be PLU Psychology Professor Christine Moon, whose groundbreaking research into infants’ language learning has received national and international recognition. Her talk will be held at 2 p.m. April 24 in Xavier 201. In the past, PLU’s Department of Psychology has hosted premier scholars for the Colloquium. One of the most notable was Warner Schaie, acknowledged as one of

Link light-rail trains.We made such a big impression, in fact, we’re doing it again. PLU’s first outdoor campaign launched in September with a paid, eight-week campaign along the I-5 corridor from Olympia to Seattle featuring Six Word Stories submitted by students, alumni, faculty and staff, and pro bono public-service billboards featuring the Diversity Center’s My Language, My Choice posters. “The pro bono campaign included 112 additional billboards at no cost to PLU that have been in the market

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 — the spike in racist and anti-Semitic acts across the United States.The inaugural Natalie Mayer Holocaust and Genocide Studies Lecture, taking place on May 2, hosts language scholar and international expert Dr. Lid King, who will discuss how hate speech has flourished on the internet and detail how we must work to build a counter

Dancing to new levels: PLU’s Dance minor program celebrates 40 years Posted by: Kate Williams / November 14, 2017 November 14, 2017 By Zoey Mohammady, guest writer PLU Mast MediaSome say dance is a universal language. At Pacific Lutheran University, that concept is growing further through the opportunities that its Dance minor program offers. This fall 2017 semester marks the 40th anniversary of the program. The Dance minor program and Dance Ensemble were created by Professor Katherine Beckman

Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022

little icky thinking about becoming innovative here because that’s just not how we understand D&I work. Angie: I’m thinking about it a little bit in that way too, Tyler. It’s like “D&I” is just the language we’re using in the framework of the academy. But if I think about my work personally — as Angie trying to humanize my black son — that work and how I choose to do that with him is innovative because we have been told for so long that we are not human. And I don’t refer to that work as “D&I.” Tyler

career—and take him further than ever.Holland planned to major in English but became fascinated by the varied projects offered by PLU’s computer science major. With family in the tech, interest in computer science runs in the family, he says. Through the PLU IHON-Oxford Program, he took a distributed systems course. “It had very interesting, hard problems that interested me.” Overall, this is what he enjoys most—finding efficient ways to solve problems. “Computers give you immediate feedback on

March 2, 2009 Illegal animal trade Charles Bergman approached a man known to provide parrots on demand in the Texas border town of Brownsville. He asked if the man knew where he could get 25 of the colorful, highly intelligent birds. At first the man didn’t buy the story that Bergman, actually a PLU English professor, was a U.S. pet store owner looking for cheap parrots.“Federali?” he shot back. Bergman said no. Then pulled a fist-sized wad of cash out of pocket. The man needed no further

was going to Mongolia,” she remembered. “So when she said ‘Mongolia,’ everyone started Googling it.” During her last two years there, Nelson has found a renewed passion for service as she teaches English at a technical college, help residents of Baruun-Urt, which is located on the eastern steppe in Mongolia, set up Facebook and email accounts or do whatever is necessary. She’s also been working with local service organizations on the “Good Father” project. In Mongolia’s rapid push to become a

. Nelson’s roommate, Katrina Graven ’15, agrees that no matter what your year, you should seek out as many internships as possible at college. Graven came by her internship at Rainier National Park, looking for culturally significant sites, through her connections with Bradford Andrews, her Anthropology professor.  “He emailed it to me and told me I’d be great for it, and to think about it,” she says. Graven didn’t think too long and immediately applied. An Anthropology and English major, Graven plans to