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professorship. Other new endowments included a gift from Linda (Knutzen ’63) Barbo and her husband, Chuck. It ensures continued funding for the university’s Wild Hope Project, including faculty and staff seminars on vocation and student programs. And a bequest from Norm Forness ’58 created an endowment to be used to enhance connections between the university and alumni who live on the East Coast.   Rieke Science Center Funding for the renovation of the Rieke Science Center was begun during the campaign and

festival, and your vote will determine which movies will go to the final event. Your vote counts!” This year there are four movies in the competition: two comedies, He’s Not All That and Envious Girls; a Mafia movie, Rise to Power; and a drama, Evasion. In Evasion, the value of family, love, and the truth is purposefully crafted and highlighted. The film encourages the audience to accept things that have already happened and to have the courage to handle whatever consequences come after. Through He’s

PLU Chinese studies chair serves as catalyst for cross-cultural arts and poetry project; related symposium comes to campus Posted by: Kari Plog / October 6, 2016 October 6, 2016 By Kari Plog '11PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 6, 2016)- The scholarship of a Pacific Lutheran University faculty member has evolved into a three-part, cross-cultural project that brings together artists and scholars from around the world.Paul Manfredi, chair of Chinese studies, recently published his

Behrens, the grant means he will continue his work into researching prickleback fishes indigenous to the Olympic peninsula. Behrens will study of the digestive physiology of tidepool fishes, and how temperature and diet affect the growth in the species. This will further the research into why some areas support fish that are herbivores, while other parts of the globe support fish that are basically carnivores and omnivores. It’s been recognized since the early 1960s that there are lots of herbivores

partly, have a voice in describing themselves, rather than always being described as the Others by the dominant culture. Subaltern Studies has sometimes been misused by scholars, who have used it to give blanket explanations of power relations within a given society, rather than doing the careful work of examining the complexity of these relations in detail. However, it nevertheless proved useful to me and to my students when, as part of the 2008 PLU Fall Gateway Program in Oaxaca, we partnered with

national theatre honor society, Alpha Psi Omega, the production is entirely student run and led under the direction of Ali Rose Schultz ’14. More than 30 students are involved onstage and off. As director, Schultz is responsible for selecting and assembling designers and actors, running the rehearsal process, and assisting the design process. Schultz chose this production for several reasons: the multifaceted and relatable content, her passion for theatre that inspires social change, and her