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Cece Chan ’24 elevates the experience of Hmong Farmers and their rich history with Seattle’s Pike Place Market Posted by: Zach Powers / April 26, 2024 Image: Cece Chan ’24 is a double major in communication and gender, sexuality, and race studies from Seattle. (photo by Sy Bean/PLU) April 26, 2024 By Nikki McCoyPLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer For Cece Chan ’24, what began as a love of student advocacy and social justice in high school, has blossomed into activism through art at

September 1, 2009 Digging into history When Bradford Andrews looks at an obsidian core in his hand, he doesn’t see its indigo beauty, as it sparks back against the spotlight. The palm-sized flake gives PLU’s assistant visiting professor of anthropology a window into the everyday life of a complex society that called the mountains just east of Mexico City home in the 16th century. Obsidian flakes and tools, how they were found, how they were made, where they were made and in what quantity opens

conferences and international choral events. Conductor Richard Nance has served on the PLU faculty since 1992. Choir of the West will present a tour preview concert on Thursday, May 23 at 8 pm in Lagerquist Concert Hall at PLU. Tickets are available through Eventbrite. Read Previous Jazz Under the Stars concert lineup announced Read Next The Lagerquist Organ, recently featured on “Pipedreams,” showcasing David Deacon-Joyner’s work, “Un poco Bud” LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna

June 8, 2014 Free Summer Jazz Series Brings Stars—and the Community—to PLU A crowd enjoys the music at a 2013 Jazz Under the Stars concert at PLU. (Photo: PLU student John Struzenberg ’15) 16th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Kicks Off July 10 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communication As a gift to the community—and really, to everyone who attends—the Pacific Lutheran University Department of Music kicks off its free summer concert series, Jazz Under the Stars, on July 10. The 2014

, a sublime conclusion to a sometimes meditative, oftentimes unsteady, and always worthwhile leave of absence. Profile Areas of expertise Classical music composition Classical music history and theory World music traditions (Chinese, Irish, and Trinidadian in particular) Chinese history and culture Educational study tours in China Education D.M.A, University of Michigan M.M., University of Michigan B.A. and B.M., University of Washington Returning to the states with the beginning of Youtz’ exotic

Jordan Levy: Anthropology and a Just Society Posted by: Zach Powers / November 15, 2019 Image: Professor Jordan Levy in front of the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Tacoma. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) November 15, 2019 By Lora ShinnGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsWhen Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system.He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer

September 22, 2008 Prof appears on Discovery Channel this week Classics professor Eric Nelson will once again be featured in prime time, this time talking about torture, animals and the environment, all in the time of the Caesars. Nelson will be featured this week on a Discovery Channel program, “Machines of Malice,” which will first air Tuesday, Sept. 23. He will also be travelling to Vancouver today (Monday) to work on an Animal Planet program, Animal Gladiators. Both programs will look at

Studies program. The 20-credit minor is designed as a companion program to strengthen each major on campus and make it outward facing. Innovation Studies is currently among the fastest-growing programs at PLU, with students enrolling with core interests in Business, Art & Design, Computer Science, History, Economics, Communication, and more. Mariken Lund (right) and her friends model ELSK the Studio products at a photo shoot Innovation Studies seems to fit a new generation of students that is eager to

Concert Hall at 6 p.m.Pfeifle died Aug. 29, just before he planned to return to PLU for his sophomore year. Following the news, President Thomas W. Krise asked the entire Lute community to join him in remembering Pfeifle’s vigor, spontaneity, leadership and hopes for the future. The celebration of life next week will provide an outlet for all Lutes to remember those qualities and more. The ceremony is one of many ways the campus community is honoring Pfeifle, who was an active member of Outdoor

the United States 1896-2016” paired PLU students and teaching assistants with a self-selected group of students from Lincoln grades 9-12. The workshop-like course challenged them all to critically think about daily experiences with institutionalized racism and how to effectively confront those experiences. The class touched on civil rights history, as well as racially charged issues today. The students’ work culminated in an end-of-term “creative extravaganza,” in which groups presented visual