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employment. His efforts also served as a catalyst for many future medical school students. Additionally, in 2014, Laurence and his wife, Bonny, established the Laurence and Bonny Huestis Endowment for Chemistry Undergraduate Summer Research . Professor Emeritus Rodney Swenson, Ph.D. It’s with deep sadness that I announce the death of Professor Emeritus Rodney Swenson, Ph.D., who served Pacific Lutheran University for 32 years. Rodney taught German in the Department of Languages and Literatures, both as

Natalie DeFord ’16 Started August 23, 2016 Natalie DeFord is a recent graduate who double-majored in Communication and German, with a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She worked with Mast Media, Lute Air Student Radio, and was the General Manager of MediaLab, where she edited and...

 Lutherrenaissance: Past and Present (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015) along with several other journals and books. PLU Faculty ProfileDr. Heather MathewsWho: Dr. Heather Mathews, Chair and Associate Professor of Art & Design at PLU Bio:  Heather Mathews joined the Department of Art and Design in 2007. She earned her B.A. in Art History and German from Hood College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. Her specialization is the German art of the Cold War period, and she is

the author of Nazi Germany and the Arab World (2015), Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany (2008, 2010) with the German edition Zionismus und Antisemitismus im Dritten Reich appearing in 2012, and The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (1986 and 2000). He is also co-author (with Donald Niewyk) of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2001). He has edited or co-edited ten books, among them most recently, Dokumente zur Geschichte des Deutschen Zionismus 1933-1941, in the Leo Baeck

in Holocaust Studies was created to honor Mayer and to ensure that teaching of the Holocaust would remain an important part of the PLU curriculum. Mayer published his memoir, My Personal Brush with History , in 2009; it was translated into German and published in October 2012. Mayer appeared at PLU’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education in 2010 and 2011, was the featured author at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 and has held various other signings, with all proceeds

Jews. Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland (Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 2013) which won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for 2014. Professor Grabowski has recently completed a project dealing with the Polish “Blue” involvement and criminal police in the Holocaust. His forthcoming research focuses on the open ghettos in the Generalgouvernement. A recipient of the 2014 Faculty of Arts Professor of the Year Award, he teaches survey courses and graduate and

J-Term Travel for Organists In January 2004, as part of an ever growing study abroad program at PLU, organ students had the opportunity to visit historic organs in the Netherlands and Germany under the leadership of the University Organist, Paul Tegels, under the course “Organs in the Netherlands and Germany”. Most organs that were visited were built by the 17th century north German builder Arp Schnitger. Organs and churches visited in 2004 include the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, Laurentzkerk in