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  • understand it more.” While Erika is not a city person and was worried about living in a city as large as Athens, the city is divided into many separate neighborhoods with their own bakeries and grocery stores that locals depend on, giving each neighborhood the feeling of a small town. The people who lived in her neighborhood were “wonderfully friendly and hospitable” and, even though she lived in the center of a sprawling metropolis, she was still able to see the stars at night. CYA was the best program

  • Getting Creative: PLU’s Gateway Class in Innovation Studies By Sarah Cornell-Maier ‘19.  This Fall, Pacific Lutheran University is introducing a new class that serves as a gateway to the Innovation Studies Program . Hist/Phil 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society is a team-taught course that combines many different fields of study into one. It… September 3, 2018 Hist/Phil 248historyinnovation studiesMichael HalvorsonMichael SchleeterPhilosophySarah Cornell-Maier

  • act of resistance to oppression, and the balance between celebrating the heroic struggles of the past with the challenges of emerging as a post-colonial society that can compete with and indeed offer solutions to an increasingly connected, tumultuous and fragile world. Dr. Greg Youtz has been taking students to Trinidad and Tobago since 1999 and directed the PLU Gateway Program in T&T from 2015 to 2022. On campus his courses focused on music composition, music history, ethnomusicology and the

  • Major Purchases - $100,000 and OverFormal competitive bidding is required for purchases $100,000 and over. Some of the most common types of competitive solicitation methods, which will be referred to as “RFx”, include Request for Proposals and Request for Quotes. The Department Sponsor must consult the Procurement Office to initiate the competitive bidding process. The Procurement Manager will help the Department Sponsor determine the best method of procurement and prepare the necessary

  • skills they will need to later fulfill their obligations as officers in the Army.  Cadets will train on topics such as reflexive fire, weapons training, obstacle course, fire support, leadership development, land navigation, advanced land navigation, mounted maneuver training, engineer training, physical training, and close quarters combat. Cadet Troop Leader Training (CTLT)The Cadet Troop Leader Training (CTLT) provides Cadets the opportunity to experience leadership in Army Table of Organization

  • Our Middle Name: University Chair in Lutheran StudiesIn 2010, a generous donor made possible the establishment of a professorship in Lutheran Studies located within the Department of Religion.  Dr. Samuel Torvend (PLU ’73), professor of Religion was nominated and confirmed by the Board of Regents to serve as the University Professor in Lutheran Studies. In that same year, an additional gift allowed the University Regents to change the professorship to an Endowed Chair in Lutheran Studies. The

  • , research-based paper on some aspect of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 2. Papers must be at least 20 pages in length, excluding notes, bibliographies, and appendices, and completed by September 30 of the year in which the fellowship is awarded. 3. Mayer Fellows will present their research as appropriate, possibly during a class session of HIST 360 and/or at the annual Powell and Heller Family Holocaust Conference. 4. Mayer Fellows may not submit their papers to the Raphael Lemkin Student Essay Contest

  • , research-based paper on some aspect of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 2. Papers must be at least 20 pages in length, excluding notes, bibliographies, and appendices, and completed by September 30 of the year in which the fellowship is awarded. 3. Mayer Fellows will present their research as appropriate, possibly during a class session of HIST 360 and/or at the annual Powell and Heller Family Holocaust Conference. 4. Mayer Fellows may not submit their papers to the Raphael Lemkin Student Essay Contest

  • publicAbout the speakers Renate Wind is a Lutheran pastor who served as professor of biblical theology and church history at the evangelical university in Nurenberg. She is a well-known Bonhoeffer scholar and was awarded the prestigious German “Evangelical Book Award” in 1993 for her landmark biography, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel. Dr. Wind has lectured extensively in Europe and North America; and has recently published her newest book, Being Christian in the Empire: Following Jesus as

  • any writing workshop, my goal is to help participants figure out how to engage in a practice, and how to live like writers in a daily and sustaining way. The bracing thrill of sensing a real, live temperament / disposition / sensibility on the page is what I long for (and fall for!) as a reader, and so, as a mentor, I look forward to finding those moments in my students’ work, studying them, marveling at them—and then, working to refine or reposition the whole, in whatever way the poem or essay