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  • Caring for God’s gift of biodiversity Conservation of the Earth, its animals, plants and resources isn’t only the right thing to do, but it’s how God intends for men and women to tend to His creation. That will be the gist of a lecture –…

    attended Union Theological Seminary in New York for his masters. He received his bachelors of arts degree from Earlham Collage in Indiana. He will publish the article “Thinking Globally and Thinking Locally: Ecology, Subsidiary and Multiscalar Environmentalism” in the Journal for the Study of Religion in 2008. He has spoken extensively on environmentalism and spirituality, including a lecture in May titled “Can Sacramentalism Save Biodiversity?” that was presented at the American Academy of Religion

  • Cacioppo, John T., & Patrick, William. (2008). Loneliness: Human nature and the need for social connection (1st. ed). Norton. (PLU Library link) Hargittai, Eszter. (2022).

    ). Lawrence Hill Books. (PLU Library link) Jenkins, Willis, Tucker, Mary Evelyn, & Grim, John (Eds.). (2018). Routledge handbook of religion and ecology. Routledge, Taylor & Francis group. (PLU Library link) Ray, Sarah J., Sibara, Jay, & Alaimo, Stacy. (Eds.). (2017). Disability studies and the environmental humanities: Toward an eco-crip theory. University of Nebraska Press. (Link to purchase book) Watts Belser, Julia. (2020). Disability, climate change, and environmental violence: The politics of

  • PLU professor wins Fulbright award By Katie Scaff ’13 PLU Professor Greg Williams will spend the 2012-2013 academic year continuing his work in Mexico as part of a prestigious Fulbright Scholar Award.  A central theme of his work will be efforts to accommodate children and…

    program development. This award will give Williams the chance to further his work there. “I’m going to be able to be there an entire year and that will give me the time to follow through on projects that I haven’t really had the time to follow through with before,” Williams said . This includes staff development, behavioral programming, and general program development. He will also be working at a local public school in the area of school-wide discipline. He is already involved in the school as part

  • If you are currently employed or have strong relationships with a school, we will work creatively with you to explore the possibility of an appropriate internship where you are.

    ) – 900 Level (Continuing Education coursework) EDUC 544: Sociocultural Foundations of Education (2) EDUC 520: Issues of Child Abuse & Neglect (1) SPED 580: Foundations and Instructional Strategies for Students with Disabilities (4) SPED 912: Team Building & Collaboration (2) SPED 910: Foundations, Assessment, Evaluation (3) SPED 914: Procedures for Students with Mild Disabilities (3) SPED 917: Severe & Profound Disabilities (2) SPED 915: Behavioral Disabilities (3) SPED 911: Developmental

  • Healthy watersheds have lots of different plants in riparian zones, which provides shade and prevents flooding and erosion.

    up water canal. For more information on watershed health and how you can get involved with your local watershed, check out this online Streamkeeper’s Handbook and the Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed Council website. Below, we will show you how your everyday actions can affect your local watershed and community, and how you can help improve the health of your watershed! Other Resources to Learn More: Pierce County Watersheds Clover Creek Watershed Council Washington Department of Ecology Getting

  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Wendy Call (she/her) is the co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007) and the new annual Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024).

    , anthropology, sociology, and ecology. I open the box, pass around the tools, and we build things (good, not-so-good, and most of all, instructive) together.

  • Anthony Markuson ’14, Bill Pursell (Kelsie Leu’s uncle), Anna McCracken ’13, and Leu ’13 summited Mt. Kilimanjaro to celebrate the end of their study away experiences. One step at a time By Chris Albert The guides up the mountain keep a cadence of “pole, pole”…

    will call me back.” Last spring, the three friends realized they were all going to be studying in Africa for the fall semester. McCracken had plans to travel to South Africa to study social and political transformation. Leu would be in Zanzibar, where she would study coastal ecology and work on a waste-management program. Markuson, who intends to go to medical school after graduation, would be in Botswana where he would work on community health issues. Africa is a big place. But they knew they had

  • 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…

    : Reclaiming the African American environmental heritage (1st ed). Lawrence Hill Books. (PLU Library link) Jenkins, Willis, Tucker, Mary Evelyn, & Grim, John (Eds.). (2018). Routledge handbook of religion and ecology. Routledge, Taylor & Francis group. (PLU Library link) Ray, Sarah J., Sibara, Jay, & Alaimo, Stacy. (Eds.). (2017). Disability studies and the environmental humanities: Toward an eco-crip theory. University of Nebraska Press. Watts Belser, Julia. (2020). Disability, climate change, and

  • 9:15 – 10:20 a.m. | March 9 Who: Eamonn Baker, Training Co-ordinator, Towards Understanding and Healing

    (rowman.com) Religion and Healing in Native America by Suzanne J. Crawford O’Brien, ed. – Praeger – ABC-CLIO Coming Full Circle : Nebraska Press (unl.edu) Topic: From Emotions to Ecology: Healing from the Perspective of Tibetan Medicine Who: Denise Glover, Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Bio: Denise M. Glover is a cultural and environmental anthropologist, and an ethnobiologist. Her research is centered in Southwest China with doctors and knowledge holders of traditional Tibetan medicine

  • State association recognizes student When she started her undergraduate degree at Western Washington University, Amanda Montgomery decided to major in physics. However, she quickly realized that while she liked studying electrons, fission and atomic numbers, it wasn’t what she wanted to do for the rest…

    the workshop was powerful, and she is actively working to bring it to campus. “There is this philosophy that we all have racial tendencies,” she explained. “The best way to defeat that is to start with ourselves. “The college generation is sensitive and open to learning,” she continued. “But it must be taught.” Currently, Montgomery is completing her internship at the behavioral healthcare program of Puyallup’s Good Samaritan Hospital. Along with learning the ins-and-outs of a medical agency