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While at PLU, Angela Pierce-Ngo ’12 was worried by a troubling pattern. After the first year of college, many peers and friends — especially classmates of color — left school or took an extremely long break. Even as she worked as a diversity advocate and…
normalize a “nontraditional timeline” and education at any age. “As we continue to explore, we figure out our goals, but even those change. If students don’t graduate from a traditional school setting, what alternatives and approaches can we offer?” Read Previous International Complexities: Mycal Ford ’12 discusses how he thinks about global policy Read Next Asking Historic Questions: Beth Griech-Polelle, PLU Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments
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TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 15, 2015)—Resilience is characterized by the “power or ability to return to original form” after being “bent, compressed or stretched.” You see examples of resilience in the news all the time—in the exhausted yet determined faces of Syrian refugees, in the grace of forgiveness following…
politics, examining the racialized/gendered roles of soldier and spouse offered in the name of “equality” and “human rights.” Beth Griech-Polelle, ‘The First Victims: The Nazi Euthanasia Campaign’ Tuesday, Nov. 10 | 7 p.m. | Scandinavian Cultural Center In a gross misuse of the actual meaning of the term euthanasia, Hitler, his top physicians, and a vast array of doctors, nurses, and technicians, would put into motion a secret, systematic program called “Aktion T-4” or the “Euthanasia Project” to
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The Tacoma Refugee Choir, an important support and resource for Kaelin Lor, History major and '23 alum, recently released the video, Everyone Can Love Someone and Kaelin has shared it with us.
used the language of profit to understand the peoples and places they encountered, while his Mayer research explored the ideas of race and nation for the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg. Gostisha credits these research experiences, and the mentorship of professors Beth Kraig, Rebekah Mergenthal, and Beth Griech-Polelle, with inspiring him to be a lifelong historian. He continues on this path in graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he studies the British Atlantic world. Greyson Hoye
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Lindsay, Psychology In this study, children, ages four to seven years old, viewed pictures from storybooks and illustrated faces, then were asked to tell a story about the image. We are examining how the children categorize the characters' gender to better understand what might make a character gender-neutral. Kassidy ShortHistory, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesNazi Racial Ideology and Jewish Stereotypes in Propaganda Films Faculty Mentor: Beth Griech-Polelle, History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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the Holocaust 2016 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education The ninth annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education , “Women and the Holocaust,” will take place Oct. 17-19 at Pacific Lutheran University. In preparation for this event, Beth A. Griech- Polelle and Samuel Torvend — the Kurt Mayer chair of Holocaust studies and chair of Lutheran studies, respectively — discussed PLU’s approach to Holocaust and genocide studies and how the university talks about Martin Luther’s anti
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, University of Washington-Seattle and Sephardic Studies Program Chair Convener: Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History, PLU 8:15 p.m. – AUC Gray AreaPlease join us for a dessert reception following the keynote.Thursday, November 7th9:30 a.m. – AUC Gray AreaRegistration & Coffee 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. – ``Learning about Sephardic Jews and the Holocaust,`` AUC Regency RoomLauren Granite, US Education Director, Centropa, “PreWar Sephardic Jewry” Lori
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. Please put “Mayer Summer Research Scholars” in the email subject line. The deadline for this proposal is 4:00 pm, Monday, April 18, 2022. For more information, email Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle at griechba@plu.edu
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. Please put “Mayer Summer Research Scholars” in the email subject line. The deadline for this proposal is 4:00 pm, Monday, April 24, 2023. For more information, email Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle at griechba@plu.edu
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. Please put “Mayer Summer Research Scholars” in the email subject line. The deadline for this proposal is 4:00 pm, Friday, May 14, 2021. For more information, email Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle at griechba@plu.edu
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” in the email subject line. The deadline for this proposal is Midnight, Monday, April 22, 2024. For more information, email Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle at griechba@plu.edu
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