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July 14, 2008 Fellowship encourages senior to find calling Since childhood, Timothy Siburg’s sought to determine his life’s purpose. At PLU, the quest to find his vocation has only intensified. The senior religion and economics double major knows he wants to serve others, but he isn’t sure in what capacity. His friends tell him to stop stressing, that everything will work out. Still, he frets about choosing the right path. “For better or for worse, I feel there are certain gifts I have to serve

PLU Earns 2023-2024 Military Friendly School Designation Posted by: Zach Powers / March 15, 2023 Image: ROTC cadets attend “Lute Forge,” a field training exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Cadets were transported in a Chinook helicopter to their confidence training course. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) March 15, 2023 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University announced today that it has earned the 2023-2024 Military Friendly School designation. PLU

to know faculty scholarship as it happens on twitter and in the archives of Yale, and read about a student-faculty collaboration focused on ultrarunning and religion. You will read about the political work of some of our English faculty and their families, and you will learn from a conversation about teaching between two of our Language instructors.  Finally, you can read my update on our Classics program. A new aspect of Prism this year is that our students have taken a larger role in producing

Introduction Posted by: alex.reed / May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 By Kevin J. O’Brien, Dean of HumanitiesSpring, 2022This issue marks an important transition for the Division of Humanities. As of this summer, the Humanities programs —English, Languages & Literatures, the Language Resource Center, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, the Parkland Literacy Center, Philosophy, and Religion— will merge with others to form a new College of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Social

to high achieving students, of which there are a lot of expectations. And in that way, PLU’s program is no different than others. There is, however, one key difference. What makes PLU’s program so unique is its interdisciplinary and international focus. “This is really where PLU is on the cutting edge,” said Andrew Finstuen, assistant professor of religion and director of the International Honors Program. “A lot of honors programs are built on the older, traditional ‘Great Books’ model. But

December 1, 2008 Americans Abroad By Steve Hansen When Jennifer Henrichsen came to PLU, she had every intention of majoring in biology and psychology, and then moving on to medical school. Ambitious – and admirable – plans. But halfway into her sophomore year, she had something of an epiphany: Med school was more of her mom’s dream than her own. Jenn Henrichsen ’07 found a passion for world politics and journalism. So she decided to switch directions. Radical directions. “One of PLU’s strengths

recreation, training and competition in every sport. “The projects will be phased in over time,” Turner said. The first major component is the creation of two outdoor all-weather lighted synthetic fields for practice, competition and recreation. One of the fields will be designed to accommodate the addition of spectator seating, giving the campus a multipurpose stadium sometime in the future. The construction of new indoor space for practice, instruction and recreation is also planned for phase one. It

December 1, 2008 PLU receives a 300 year-old Torah During November, Cindy Boyce generously gave PLU a Torah with a pedigree that dates back to the 1700s.“You want to be careful what you do with them,” Boyce said about the scroll’s delicacy and how sacred it is in the Jewish faith. The 300 year-old scroll has been decommissioned for a number of years and was transcribed in Morocco. “It can’t be used in a synagogue,” said Samuel Torvend, associate professor of religion and chair of the religion

on the south… is extremely difficult.”By the time of the war slavery was a part of every aspect of life. All the discrepancies in data and factors that can’t be isolated “has rendered the debate of the economics of slavery a contact sport,” Coclanis said, sparking a few chuckles from his crowd. Coclanis said he doesn’t think slavery would have completely vanished without the Civil War. Instead, Coclanis said, it was more likely that “a closely controlled labor system, not that distinct from the

obscurity. Because of this, the program not only showcases the music of African Americans but of European composers from the early 20th Century that were inspired by African-American music, including French composer Darius Milhaud’s La Creation du Monde and the second movement of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s From the New World Symphony. The PLU jazz ensemble will present the music of Duke Ellington, accompanied by the PLU Swing Dance Club. Ellington and his jazz orchestra became the house band at the