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research, the students traveled across the United States and Canada in search of people with unique stories to tell. In New Orleans, they met a sexual trauma nurse, multiple survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and a nationally renowned expert who wrote the first book about compassion fatigue. All together, they traveled 12,000 miles by car, train and plane to visit California, Illinois, Washington D.C., New York City, and Ontario, Canada, where they attended the first Compassion Fatigue conference. “It’s

which the intellectual historian Leonard Krieger, in his recent book Time’s Reasons: Philosophies of History Old and New (1989), speaks of a contemporary “crisis” of faith in the notion of historical truth. He writes: The most potent contemporary influence on the discipline of history . . . is the challenge to the very substance of the historical approach to life that has been mounted by antithetical agents of the general culture. What is new and especially lethal in the current rejection of history

On Exhibit: Books in Honor of Women’s History Month Posted by: Holly Senn / March 8, 2023 March 8, 2023 This exhibit includes a selection of the library’s print books about women published within the past five years. The books cover a wide variety of issues affecting women’s lives, cultural contexts, political work, artistic achievements, and other issues. The library has an additional 383 e-books and open access online books with subjects about women that were published from 2018 to 2023. We

January 24, 2014 PLU concert celebrates Black History Month Pacific Lutheran University pays tribute to the artistic entrepreneurship of African Americans with a Black History Month Concert that celebrates a lasting legacy of music, literature and art. Covering a rich tapestry of gospel, blues, jazz and concert works, along with recitations from classic African-American literature, the concert will feature PLU student ensembles—including the University Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Jazz

. In his last year or two at PLU, he often read through my notes on a geometry book I was writing, making many great suggestions for improvements.” A funeral mass in Bryan’s honor will be held on Friday, June 14, 11 a.m. at Our Lady Queen of Heaven (14601 A St. S., Tacoma, WA 98444). PLU community members are welcome, and encouraged to RSVP by emailing jeanette.dorner@gmail.com. In lieu of flowers, community members may make a gift in memory of Bryan to the Bryan and Celine Dorner Mathematics

August 20, 2013 Professor Joanna Gregson did research into writers of romance novels and found herself intrigued and surprised. (John Froschauer, Photographer) Romancing the readers isn’t that easy, prof discovers in research project By Steve Hansen It all started when a box of pink and lavender romance novels arrived at Professor of Sociology Joanna Gregson’s office. The box came from a friend and fellow sociology professor with whom Gregson attended graduate school. It was in response to a

September 3, 2009 New Chemistry department instrument will help students and profs probe world of the atom It looks like a rather fat, squat water heater. But to the students and professors gathered around it – or, more accurately, the computer that transmits readouts from it, the machine is pure magic. It is called a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, or NMR. Today, the students from Professor Neal Yakelis’ organic chemistry lab are trying to figure out the structure of an unknown

to be a part of.” As their research continues, they may not come up with all the answers they seek, but that’s OK, she said. “I’m hoping by the time they graduate, if we don’t have answers to the questions we have, we know the questions that matter,” Laurie-Berry said. “The answers really don’t tell you anything if you’re asking the wrong questions.” This experience isn’t about following a recipe to get to a definitive answer. “Science is not the list of facts in the book,” Laurie-Berry said