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  • In April 2023, PLU religion professor Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen , Ph.D., attended the Natural History Museum Late Night with PLU students at the University of Oxford. At Late Night events, the Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum host tours and various evening activities offered…

    it all in, but it’s also brilliant.”   Nothing Without Us was sponsored by the Curating for Change project, which creates career pathways for Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse museum curators in more than 20 local, regional, and national museums in England. Curators help reinterpret museum collection items and produce virtual and physical exhibit spaces to explore disabled people’s histories.   The project aims to highlight the contributions of disabled individuals in the community and history

  • Brice Johnson ’99 finds vocation in Red Cross leadership. Two neighborhoods in St. Paul, Minnesota share streets and a zip code. Interstate 94 runs down the middle, and since the freeway’s construction in the 1950s, the life expectancy between Summit Hill and the historically Black…

    Red Cross were challenging, as the organization made the switch to remote work while also serving at the forefront of an international public health emergency. Johnson drew on his years of experience serving in environments where he often had to adapt, environments where he might start his day in a suit and tie to appear on the morning news and then change to basketball shorts and a tee-shirt for an afternoon event in the community. During the pandemic, flexibility and a deep sense of camaraderie

  • Originally Published in 1992 I thought I was used to medicine’s ever-expanding horizons, but I wasn’t prepared for this one. “We’ve got a dilemma we want some philosophers to help with,” said a pediatric endocrinologist on the other end of the line. As I quickly…

    Adults (NASA), “Down in Front,” hits home. Convinced that we are no longer armed with any potent notion of disease, where do we turn? Suppose we can further clarify the factual picture along these lines. We know ahead of time that certain conditions indicate potential for responding to GH treatment: not dwarfism, but a limited range of both GH-deficient and non-GH-deficient children. We can refine the pool of potentially benefitted children further, in turn, by dropping those who show no change in

  • Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…

    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

  • TACOMA, Wash. (March 4, 2015)—Since its founding in 1990, Pacific Lutheran University’s Women’s Center has empowered women and their allies to become advocates for gender equity and social justice. Along the way, through education, counseling, mentoring and even celebration, its staff, volunteers and community have…

    . And, maybe most of all, an impact that will last well beyond 25 years. Here are the stories: “The Women’s Center has made me a leader of my own life! It also has given me the courage to create my dreams and live them. It’s given me a voice and the passion to speak for those who cannot. It made me see the world differently, always asking myself, ‘How can I do more? How can I inspire more change?’ It’s made me that woman I am today … a business owner, empowering women to take ownership and control

  • TACOMA, WASH. (June 13, 2016)- Kiana Norman ’17 wears a lot of hats. She’s a singer, an actress and a writer. She’s a student, a sister and a daughter. A future world traveler, online journalist and theater critic, if all goes according to plan. But…

    concerns for the first time during an already difficult period of transition. Amid those staggering statistics, Riano said she wishes the Counseling Center was used more broadly by students at PLU. She urges all students, with struggles of varying degrees, to use the valuable resource. Counselors are available to listen and address chronic mental illness, while a campus psychiatrist provides medication management. “There’s no way that somebody is going to get through four years of college without being

  • PLU alumnus Brian Lander ‘89 grew up in Washington State’s Tri-Cities. But in early 2020, Lander was far from his childhood home, as he helped meet urgent needs in Northwest Syria. Turkish troops, Syrian and Russian armies, and opposition forces negotiated and battled over resources…

    in 1989, Lander moved to Hong Kong with his future wife, whom he met in China—she was on a similar one-year study abroad program through her UK-based university. After a brief period at the US refugee resettlement program, Lander was hired by the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) where he worked for 20 years, responding to refugee crises around the globe. Along the way, he earned two master’s degrees—one in development management, and another in international humanitarian law and human

  • Jeff Clapp ’89, PLU artistic director of theater, PLU theater program undergraduate, son of a theater professor, likes to tell a story of his tenure interview. There, he was asked: What is the strength of the PLU theater program? “We sort of teach the MacGyver…

    not designed for theater. To know for what the building was intended – in precise order ¬– it is instructive to know the building’s original name: The Chapel-Music-Speech Building. “If you were in the balcony, you could hear a pin drop, but you couldn’t see anything,” Clapp said. “And if you were on the main floor, you could see wonderfully, but you couldn’t hear anything. “That place was designed for music, not the spoken word.” On October 12, 2013, all that will change. On the Saturday evening

  • International Honors at PLU Kyle Schroeder lives in the International Honors wing of Hong International Hall. He says that IHON challenges him to think in a different manner. Four first-year students discuss PLU’s honors program By Steve Hansen Ask four first-year students from different backgrounds…

    you can show up and not have the work done and expect to fly by,” he said. “It is hard work.” Read Previous A look at climate change and energy storage Read Next Champion of all microbes everywhere COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and

  • JBLM’s Lt. Col. Celia FlorCruz Speaks Feb. 17 as Part of PLU’s “…and Justice for All?” Spring Spotlight Series By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)—Lt. Col. Celia FlorCruz has blazed such a major trail in the military that…

    married to JBLM I Corps Deputy Commander Maj. Gen. Kenneth Dahl and has two daughters, said the assaults did not change her career path (though she tried to keep one of her daughters home from college until she was 18)—but they changed the way she went about it. “When we started SHARP, I think that there was more assault in the Army than when I first came in,” she said. “Our culture is a vulgar culture. We don’t really even know what the rate (of sexual assaults) is—but it is not tolerable, and it is