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Writing program challenges its students to consider difficult questions relating to artistry, self-awareness and commission. “What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation about the urgent matters of our time? What is the work you want to do, the work that is specific to your experience, talent and imagination?” In the latest PLU podcast, we pose these questions and others to a pair of RWW faculty members and acclaimed creative writers, Rick
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contribution relies on decades of experience in intersections of religion, disability, health, and healing. An associate professor of early and medieval Christian history at PLU, Llewellyn Ihssen is the program director of IHON-Oxford. Llewellyn Ihssen uses critical disability theory in her work on ancient, late antique, and medieval religious texts. After earning an undergraduate degree in English literature and secondary education, Llewellyn Ihssen worked in special-education classrooms. Yearning to
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308/489) or the literature and history of the Caribbean with Krise in an English Literature course (ENGL 216). Their paths will cross each time they visit a new location—a total of 18 stops, Krise said. Students from the Business class will brief traveling Lutes about the markets they are about to enter, and English-minded students will explain history and culture. While Krise has visited Lutes abroad throughout his tenure at PLU, this will be the first course he teaches abroad. Krise went to high
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Experiences for Kids`` and will be followed by a Q&A session with Medina. A Newbery Medal and Pura Belpré winner, Medina is a children’s, middle grade, and young adult author of Cuban descent whose books celebrate Latinx culture and the lives of young people. She serves on the National Board of Advisors for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and is a faculty member of Hamline University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Children’s Literature. Her works have been called “heartbreaking
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, and enthusiastic. She has been teaching for 28 years, at PLU since 2008, and regards herself as lucky to be part of a faculty, and a community, that was supported, because she had training in online teaching, and had participated in Inclusive Teaching seminars before and during the pandemic. Born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, Dr. Urdangarain obtained her BA in Comparative Literature and Secondary Education in 1991. She taught at a high school level for seven years until relocating to the
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project? My capstone project was very much inspired by my passion for plant science, food security and agriculture. I completed my capstone project last spring, where I wrote a literature review focusing on genetic engineering mechanisms to combat environmental stressors — such as flooding and drought — in important agricultural crops … food security is being threatened by the severe weather patterns as a result of climate change. One potential solution to the severe crop losses, loss of food security
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(intensive care unit), postpartum wing, and medical-surgical unit through the COPE Health Scholars program. Maqui practices patient care for the COPE Health Scholars program. “Each floor [of the hospital] had unique aspects, and I learned a lot from every area. Completing the program was meaningful, because I spent so much time and effort on it and enjoyed every second,” says Maqui. The COPE program gives high school and college students the opportunity to work closely with health professionals in a real
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Administration has tweaked the definition of what it considers torture. Now, sleep deprivation and water boarding, where water is poured over the head covered in a sack or cloth to simulate drowning, is not considered torture, she noted. Kaurin holds a PhD in philosophy from Temple University in Philadelphia and is a specialist in military ethics, war theory, philosophy of law and applied ethics. “I guess David and I just want a chance to argue with each other,” Kaurin laughed. “We don’t come from the same
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, early American, and 17th- and 18th-century British literature. He has served as General Editor of the McNair Papers monograph series and Managing Editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. He has published numerous articles and other works, including Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 (University of Chicago Press). Krise will arrive at PLU in June to assume the presidency. He succeeds Loren J. Anderson who will leave
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three vertebrae, but the real damage wasn’t yet known — an undiagnosed concussion. Two days later, during a PE Ultimate Frisbee game, she caught an errant elbow on the exact same spot on her right temple and blacked out. The damage from two such consecutive blows to the head, doctors said then, may never be reversible.“My head hurt every day for the first three or four years,” she explained. Incapacitating migraines that felt like explosions inside her skull. Memory loss. Sensitivity to light and
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