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studies (Spanish), and psychology. Citing local and national data, including a recent report outlining the current nationwide shortage of police officers, faculty members say PLU’s new criminal justice program will prepare students to enter a field eager to welcome a new generation of practitioners.Department of Sociology and Criminal JusticeWhether we are studying families, policing, gender, or deviance, the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at PLU teaches students to understand the social
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to $80 million of last week. Project Access reached its $1 million goal. – New endowed chairs in Holocaust Studies and Elementary Education, as well as an endowed professorship in Lutheran studies were established last year. – The campus has grown with new facilities, like the Martin J. Neeb Center – the new home of KPLU. The building is LEED Gold certified, which is the third building at PLU to receive such certification. Buildings that make up the university’s heritage, like Eastvold, have
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. They are not simply reading about the great thinkers and the great ideas that have made the world what it is – they are systematically dissecting and testing these ideas and looking at them from every perspective. “The conversations I’m having in my IHON classes? I’ve never had conversations like these in my other classes,” said Catherine, an anthropology and global studies major from Bellevue, Wash. Lots of schools have honors programs. They are tough. They require a lot of work. They are limited
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footage you can.” For communication and women’s and gender studies double major Kortney Scroger ’14, it’s a whirlwind of activity and excitement. “It was kind of crazy. All I remember is just a bunch of cameras and flashing, and people running around when it came close to crunch time,” said Scroger of last year’s election night party for I-1183 at the Clarion Hotel in Seattle. Election night is entirely new kind of experience, even for students like Heather Perry ‘13, who is majoring in communication
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further with what they’ve learned and discussed. He wants them to continue the conversations begun in the class, and to remain curious. Above all, he wants students to know that they have agency and can find their own meaning in texts and in the world. Talking to Professor Luke Parker was a refreshing and eye-opening opportunity, and I was happy to hear first-hand about his passion for his studies and his teaching. On my way out the door, he reminded me to remember my own passion and to follow it
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the foreign vowels sucked more, than those listening to their native tongue, regardless of how much postnatal experience they had. This indicated to researchers that they were learning the vowel sounds in utero. “These little ones had been listening to their mother’s voice in the womb, and particularly her vowels for 10 weeks. The mother has first dibs on influencing the child’s brain,” Kuhl said. “At birth, they are apparently ready for something novel.” While other studies have focused on
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Brian Sung ’24 talks business, econ majors, Oxford adventure, and his unique PLU journey as a first-gen Chinese immigrant Posted by: mhines / March 21, 2024 March 21, 2024 By By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23 PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Meet Brian Sung, a business major from the class of ’24 at PLU. When he’s not taking international honors courses or diving deep into his double majors in business and economics, he’s all about data science and statistics through his double minors
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A Retrospective Exhibit: 100 Years of the Art of Keyes and Cox opens in the University Gallery Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / January 20, 2012 January 20, 2012 Join us for the opening of A Retrospective Exhibit: 100 Years of the Art of Keyes and Cox on Wednesday, February 6 from 5-7pm. Emeriti Professors Dave Keyes and Dennis Cox will be exhibiting a lifetime worth of works in PLU’s University Gallery. Entering the University in 1969 and 1972 and starting phased retirement in 2006, Keyes and Cox
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Some people build fences to keep people out… and other people build fences to keep people in. Posted by: Kate Williams / October 16, 2017 October 16, 2017 By Kate Williams '16Outreach Manager “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything” – Malcolm X. Inequality. A word that carries the weight of a million lost souls. A word that has invoked the true nature of thousands of Americans. A word that has haunted the spirit of mankind for hundreds of years. How, as individuals do we defy a
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March 12, 2014 Poster courtesy of Pierre Sauvage. Hiding in Plain Sight: Filmmaker researches his roots and into the rescue of Jews at Le Chambon-sur-Lignon By Barbara Clements Content Development Director Pierre Sauvage, just 18, remembered being shocked by the news: He was Jewish? And his parents survived WWII and the Nazi regime largely by finding a safe haven, with up to 5,000 others, in a little-known part of south-central France? The news, belatedly told by the Sauvages to their son, led
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