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Timely Research PLU faculty members engage in research critical to today and tomorrow Posted by: Logan Seelye / November 1, 2021 November 1, 2021 By Veronica CrakerResoLute Assistant DirectorTranslating the EnlightenmentThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Professor of French Rebecca Wilkin a $133,333 grant under the Scholarly Editions and Translations interest area. Wilkin and her collaborator Angela Hunter, an English professor from the University of Arkansas at

PLU launches pre-law minor for fall 2022 Posted by: Silong Chhun / May 31, 2022 Image: Michael Artime lecturing in a political science class at PLU (PLU photo/Silong Chhun) May 31, 2022 By Veronica CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University has announced it will offer a pre-law minor in Fall 2022. The university has long offered a pre-law advising program, but continued interest in the program prompted the College of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Social Sciences to

the students and faculty of PLU’s division of Humanities are also grateful to you, our community. When you keep in touch about the ways you are using your PLU education in the world, it reminds us about the importance of what we are doing. When we heard how you have been managing the pandemic, and when you offered words of support, it made a huge difference and helped us through this last year. Thank you.  We are also grateful to see positive signs of infections declining where vaccines are being

Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester discontinued Posted by: hassonja / December 13, 2017 Image: Downtown Tacoma for TIES study away program on Monday, June 6, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) December 13, 2017 TIES Program Update from Joel Zylstra (Director, Center for Community Engagement and Service) The Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester (TIES) program has been discontinued indefinitely. TIES served as one expression of PLU’s long-term commitments to linking global education with our

especially strong attention given to the arts, humanities, social sciences, health sciences and education.  To register, visit plu.edu/holocaustconference. The Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education is made possible by the Powell Family Foundation, with special thanks to Nancy Powell and Carol Heller. We greatly appreciate the Mayer family for their support of the Powell-Heller Conference and the Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars Fellowship.  Read Previous PLU receives a major gift to fund

prejudices, violence, and other forms of dehumanization.  Each conference offers opportunities to learn from major scholars whose research focuses on the Holocaust. Conference sessions also highlight interdisciplinary approaches to Holocaust and Genocide Studies, with especially strong attention given to the arts, humanities, social sciences, health sciences and education.  This year’s conference will be the first official collaboration with the Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, since

On Exhibit: Resources for ‘The Matter of Loneliness’ Wang Center Symposium Posted by: Roberto Arteaga / February 27, 2024 February 27, 2024 In collaboration with the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, the Mortvedt Library has organized an exhibit in honor of the 11th Biennial Wang Center symposium: “The Matter of Loneliness: Building Connections for Collective Well-Being.” This two-day conference will bring together academics, activists and practitioners whose life’s work

. We in Humanities will be doing all we can to support these programs and the ways they advance PLU’s liberal arts tradition and the vital importance of the Classics to all the work we do. PLU is not alone in facing enrollment challenges —that trend is common throughout the landscape of private higher education.  But by retaining our commitment to the Classics as a minor, we set ourselves apart as a university that cares deeply about questions and traditions that have endured and evolved for many

also served as president of the faculty senate there. O’Brien noted that when Krise made the argument for a humanities institute to the Air Force brass, the officials asked Krise why such an institute was needed. “Tom pointed to the now iconic pictures of Abu Ghraib and said ‘That’s why,'” O’Brien recalled. “He said that with the right type of education, a liberal arts education, you learn to treat each other more carefully, and produce better thinkers and better citizens.” O’Brien concluded by

March 6, 2008 Ham radio station improves preparedness While preparing for a home renovation project in 2001, Doug Oakman, dean of the humanities division, came across the shortwave radio he built in high school. The radio and its wooden case were damaged, and it had been 30 years since Oakman operated the device. Regardless, he opted to repair the radio and get his amateur radio operator license. “One of the great  joys I find in amateur radio is you have the privilege of talking to anyone in