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  • Clarissa Gines ’12 combines her passions for art and community working for Tacoma Creates https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2022/07/05/clarissa-gines-2/

    juggled parenthood with schoolwork and an internship at a Seattle-based art gallery. She then worked as a gallery assistant, Museum of Glass associate, and gallery exhibitions manager for the next seven years.All of which helped prepare Gines for her new role beginning in 2019 as the Tacoma Creates program coordinator within the city’s Office of Arts and Culture Vitality. Tacoma Creates was the first voter-approved Cultural Access Program in Washington State. The initiative intends to increase access

  • Greetings from the Dean 2018 https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/greetings-from-the-dean-2018/

    Greetings from the Dean 2018 Posted by: Matthew / May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 By Kevin J. O'BrienDean of HumanitiesEach year, the PLU Division of Humanities puts together a collection of stories into Prism, offering a few reflections of the great work our faculty do in classrooms and beyond. This year’s stories will introduce you to a new Philosophy professor, a Nordic Studies professor who returned to teach at his alma mater, and our new Director of the Scandinavian Cultural Center. You will get

  • Greetings from the Dean 2016 https://www.plu.edu/prism/greetings-from-the-dean-2016/

    “the word,” while Pauline Kaurin, Carmiña Palerm, and Scott Rogers consider the ways that Humanities instructors engage students in issues that matter: whether in our PLU classrooms, in a cross-cultural setting like PLU’s Oaxaca program, or in the various communities—traditional and on-line—where our faculty pursue opportunities for teaching and learning. In our Departmental pages you can read a tribute to Professor Mark Jensen, who is retiring from our French Program after 27 years of stellar

  • Title”Killer Drones: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2012/10/29/titlekiller-drones-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

    October 29, 2012 “Killer Drones: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” A screening of “Killer Drones: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly” will take place at 7 p.m., Nov. 8 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. The film will be followed by a short response by Pauline M. Kaurin, associate professor and chair of the PLU department of philosophy, with a discussion to follow. The film addresses the ethics of lethal drone warfare, presented by Bradley J. Strawser, assistant professor of philosophy at the

  • Alumna finds good fit at PLU https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2010/06/28/alumna-finds-good-fit-at-plu/

    Cultural Center. Most recently,she made a gift to Project Access. I think they are doing good work in helping students find their way and training young people to go out into the world and make a difference,” Birkestol said. “I think the more young people that are exposed to an education that you get at PLU the better this world will be.” Read Previous Campus Safety keeps watch over “city” of 4,500 Read Next Student learns disaster’s impact first-hand COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the

  • Schedule https://www.plu.edu/holocaustconference/schedule/

    Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education“Africa and the Holocaust”ScheduleFree and Open to the Public - Registration RequiredAll Times Posted are Pacific Standard (PST)Wednesday, October 25thThursday, October 26thFriday, October 27thWednesday, October 25th7:00 p.m. – Opening Keynote Address: “Sub-Saharan Africans and the Holocaust”, AUC Regency RoomDr. Edward Kissi, Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South

  • PLU wins Simon Award https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2009/06/15/plu-wins-simon-award/

    globally focused university.” Sobania noted the focus on global scholarship began more than 30 years ago, when PLU became one of the first universities to establish a Global Studies Program in 1977. Now, more than 40 percent of the students participate in at least one study-abroad program before they graduate. This compares to the national average of 3 percent, and puts PLU among the top comprehensive masters-level universities in the country with the percentage of students studying abroad. When

  • 2021 ACPSS Conference https://www.plu.edu/confucius-institute/2021-acpss-conference/

    Wang, USC Aiken Exploring Chinese International Undergraduate Students’ Cross-cultural Adjustment to US Colleges and Universities during the Covid-19 Pandemic Ningsheng Huang, Dunwoody College of Technology Exploring the Outcomes of Adopting OER Materials in Sociology online classes Ting Jiang, MSU Denver (Virtual Presentation)Abstract - Panel 1A: Chinese Americans amid Covid 19 (Administration Building 101)Yan Xia, Ph.D., Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cixin Wang, Ph.D. Associate

  • Graduate Education Week https://www.plu.edu/admission-graduate/events/graduate-education-week/

    panels are held in the Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC. Refreshments provided. Tuesday April 2, 6 p.m. | Business Alumni Panel and NetworkingRoom: Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUC Join us for a Q&A panel from PLU alumni industry professionals to gain first hand insight into the business field. Additionally, hear how their graduate education played a role in their career development. There will also be a time at the end to network with the panelists and other attendees.Wednesday April 3, 6 p.m

  • Community Learning Through Endowed Lectures https://www.plu.edu/prism/community-learning-through-endowed-lectures/

    Community Learning Through Endowed LecturesEach year, the Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture is arranged by the Scandinavian Area Studies program.  This endowed lecture series, made possible by generous donations by descendants of PLU’s first president and friends of the Harstad family, offers the campus and local community a diverse range of topics intended to further our understanding of Scandinavian culture and society.  Topics in recent years have included migrant literature of Norway, the