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April 11, 2008 Holocaust survivor shares his story Holocaust survivor Henry Friedman recounted his experience under the unspeakable horror of Nazism and stressed the importance of sharing survival stories at the 12th annual Raphael Lemkin Essay Awards Banquet. The banquet also featured the work of student essayists, who submitted papers on topics related to genocide. The winners, senior Ethan Jennings and junior Kristen McCabe, were recognized during the banquet program. “I’m not a scholar or a
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October 24, 2012 Robert N. Bellah, the Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, was the lecturer for the annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture, Oct. 24. (Photo by John Struzenberg ’15) Adapting to the advancements of modernity By Katie Scaff ’13 How do we as a species adapt to a rate of change that no biological species before has ever faced? This was the question Robert N. Bellah, one of the foremost sociologists of religion in the world, posed to
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January 28, 2013 Grad lands dream job By Emilie Thoreson ’15 After travelling to Macedonia on a Fulbright Student Fellowship and working for the National Albanian American Council, Kelly Ryan ’10 has landed his dream job — working for the State Department. Ryan made the trip to Skopje, Macedonia shortly after graduation to carry out his Fulbright. There, he analyzed the dialogue process of the Nansen Dialogue Center and its efforts to promote linguistic and ethnic integration in schools. “Right
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Novelist Leslye Walton ’04 Nominated for Prestigious Morris Award Posted by: Zach Powers / January 5, 2015 Image: [Photo Courtesy of www.LeslyeWalton.com] January 5, 2015 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 5, 2014) —Pacific Lutheran University alumna Leslye Walton has been nominated for the prestigious William C. Morris YA Debut Award for her novel The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. First awarded in 2009, the accolade “honors a debut book published by
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of the Kings in Egypt has yet to be fully explored. In February, Pacific Lutheran University Faculty Fellow in the Humanities Donald Ryan, traveled to Egypt to resume excavation of the renowned archaeological site.The trip marked Ryan’s first time back to the valley after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 forced his team to evacuate due to the increasing instability of the area. “The conflict came to us and we were caught in the middle of it,” said Ryan. “We decided to go back and give it another
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Posted on November 20, 2017October 31, 2018 How Mexico slowly, but surely, began to change my life Scroll down to see more content Christina Easley at the Ángel de la Independencia, Mexico City. Photo Credit: Ashley Stiles. Oaxaca has opened an amazing amount of doors for me and I cannot be more grateful. What this program entails and the time I have spent here have made me reconsider my vocational and educational goals. I am confused as to where I stand and to who I now am, but in the best way
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Veterans Day at PLU Posted by: Thomas Krise / November 11, 2014 November 11, 2014 Today we are here to celebrate and honor, to commemorate the dead and the living, the men and women who, in every war since this country began, have demonstrated loyalty to their country and great courage. In a world tormented by tension and the possibilities of conflict, we meet in quiet commemoration of an historic day of peace. We join together to honor those who made – and make, to this day – our freedom
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Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford For the graduating class of 2024, freshman year was online and confined. So by the time fall came around for sophomore year, they embraced in-person classes, study groups, lunches, dinners, and more. That’s true at least for political science major Kaden Bolton ’24, who graduated… June 12, 2024 Research & Academics
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Circling the Heartbeat Circling the Heartbeat https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2018/09/billie-swift-mfa-cover-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2018/05/kari-plog.jpg September 12, 2018 October 3, 2018 Open Books is a hub for the poetry community, locally and nationwide. But to Billie Swift ’16, it’s so much more. It’s where she would end her regular scenic drive from South
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Assessment ReportingThe development of consistent and sustainable cycles for the assessment of student learning are foundational to program assessment in the academic division. Currently, we assess our programs at several distinct levels of the curriculum: the general education core (including FYEP and IHON), majors and minors, and course feedback delivered via student evaluations. The following resources provide information on annual assessment reporting for departments and programs, as well
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