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  • 2023 Environmental Studies Capstone Presentations Tuesday May 23, 2023 2:00-6:00pm in Morken 105 2:00-2:20pm, The Illegal Wildlife Trade of Tigers and Pangolins in Myanmar Makaela WhalenThe illegal wildlife trade is an issue that threatens the environment, animals, and people across the world. My project focuses on how to combat the trade of tigers and pangolins in Myanmar, specifically with the additional problems presented with the conflict and political instability in the region. Political

  • 2024 Environmental Studies Capstone Presentations Monday May 20, 2024 2:00-6:00pm in Rieke 103B 2:00-2:20pm, 6PPD-q Toxicity in Coho Salmon and a Utilitarian View Ryan AspelundSalmon are culturally, economically, and ecologically significant species in the Pacific Northwest. Since the 1900s salmon numbers have been in decline as a result of human activities. Urban runoff mortality syndrome is the phenomenon of salmon experiencing acute mortality resulting from polluted stormwater runoff in

  • speaker Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D., of Michigan State University. Thompson, who holds the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food and Community Ethics at Michigan State University and published several works on the environmental and social significance of agriculture, will discuss three key problems in food ethics: the ethics of global hunger; the ethics of food consumption as it relates to personal and public health; and the ethical underpinnings of “the food movement” and its attraction to local and

  • - ES NAIS 244 Environmental Justice and Indigenous People - ES, GE NAIS 250 Introduction to Native American & Indigenous Studies - ES, GE NAIS 363 Race and Indigeneity - ES, GE PHIL 248 Innovation, Ethics, & Society - ES POLS 151 American Government - ES POLS 231 Current International Issues - ES, GE POLS 265 Latino Politics - ES, GE POLS 345 Government and Public Policy - ES POLS 346 Environmental Politics and Policy - ES, GE POLS 354 State and Local Government - ES POLS 361 Political Parties and

  • Save the Date: 12th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education October 23-25, 2019 “First, Do No Harm: Medical Science, Ethics and the Holocaust”October 24- 26, 2018 The 2018 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, in its 11th year at Pacific Lutheran University, will be dedicated to exploring the role of medical science and the Holocaust. In the last decades, historical research on Nazi Germany has focused on sites of terror- especially concentration camps and

    Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference
    12180 Park Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • , exploitation, and fraud as they related to specific industries. Pass/fail options do not apply to business majors either declared or intending to declare. (4) PHIL 226 : Environmental Ethics - VW Apply ethical theories to determine what we should do in the face of environmental issues and dilemmas such as whether and why animals have rights, what kind of value nature possesses, the proper focus of an environmental ethic, and what ecology has to do with economics and justice. (4) PHIL 227 : Philosophy and

  • Alumni Message for Environmental Studies Students

  • ; it’s a part of our special holidays and our daily meals, but is the product worth the cost? On Thursday, October 9, 2014, at 7 p.m. this year’s Ruth Anderson Public Debate asks, is it right to eat animals? You’re invited to dig into this issue. To answer this question, PLU will feature four debaters offering their perspective on the ethical, environmental, and health concerns surrounding meat, Dr. Karen S. Emmerman, who is in favor of the proposition (not eating meat), and Dr. Michael Schleeter

  • Kevin J. O’Brien Professor of Christian and Environmental Ethics Full Profile 253-535-7239 obrien@plu.edu

  • Raymond Orr Associate Vice President, Facilities Management Full Profile 253-535-7663 orrrk@plu.edu