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Dr. Bridgette O’Brien McGoldrick grew up in Colorado, but has lived in several different states and countries including Nepal, Japan, South Africa and Hungary.  Her formal education includes an undergraduate degree in religious studies from the University of Puget Sound and a master’s degree in comparative world religions from Columbia University. She graduated from the University of Florida with her Ph.D. in 2013 and her dissertation research explored institutional efforts to integrate

Exhibit opens Fri. 10 Nov. 2017; Exhibit closes Wed. 7 Feb. 2018.Trolls are associated with trouble and magic, with those parts of the world we cannot explain. What does the word “troll” mean? Scholars have many guesses as about the origin of the word but nothing definite. The word appears in Old Norse and suggested many things – giants as well troublesome people and animals. Additionally, Old Norse also had the verb form trylla which John Lindow translates variously as “turn (someone or

Dear Reader, PLU’s first Saxifrage flowers burst through stone in 1975, when student editor Megan Beckman Benton and her editorial team launched the journal. Since then, Saxifrage has endured as a nourishing space for students to publish original poetry, prose, and art. During Saxifrage’s 50-year lifespan, the journal has published over 2,000 creative works from 902 artists, writers, and composers. On this golden anniversary of creativity and community, we express our sincere gratitude to

Calendar Calendar Highlights Full Transcripts Full Podcast Transcript This is the story of two photographs, five friends and half a century of memories, life, and loss. In one photo, taken in 1967, five college seniors look into the camera, ready to take on the world. In the other photo, taken 17 years later, the five are settled into their adult lives, but still together. For the last 32 years, these two photos have been taken over and over again in various forms, at various times, in various places

Facilities/Instrumentation/Lab Safety Facilities The Rieke Science Center supports students and programs with efficient teaching and research laboratories. Instrumentation 500 MHz Bruker solution and solid-state NMR with sample changer and five probes Asylum MFP-3D AFM Perkin Elmer NexION ICP-MS with autosampler and microwave digester Agilent GC/MS with autosampler Schimadzu Prep HPLC Schimadzu Analytical HPLC GPC with Wyatt detector Two Perkin Elmer FTIR Spectrometers Gamry 1010E potentiostat

ProgramsThe Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies program brings together expertise from over a dozen academic departments to offer a cutting-edge and relevant major, along with two innovative minors, for PLU students. We recognize that the critical study of identity and power does not “belong” to any one academic discipline. Our major and minors allow student to select courses from a variety of programs–including Sociology, English, Psychology, Communication, Kinesiology, Religion, and many