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courseIf not yet taken, have you confirmed that the course will be offered? HIST 337History of MexicoJ Term 2020Already taken NAIS 250Intro to Native American and Indigenous StudiesFall 2022Yes ENGL 216Topics in Literature: Native American LitSpring 2023No HGST 201Intro to HGSTNot yet sureNo 5. Context and Background (no more than 350 words) The student is encouraged to provide any additional context for their proposal. This may include discussion of previous academic course work, life experience

The 2016 Pauling Medal Award Press Release Nominations are now closed and a Pauling Medal Award winner has been announced. Nominations are being accepted for the 2016 Linus Pauling Medal Award. This award is sponsored by the Pacific Northwest local American Chemical Society Puget Sound, Oregon, and Portland local sections, and it presented annually in recognition of outstanding achievement in chemistry in the spirit of and honor of Linus Pauling, a native of the Pacific northwest. The medal

human and nonhuman. PLU sits on the traditional lands of the Nisqually, Puyallup, Squaxin Island, and Steilacoom peoples, and while Indigenous tribes are all different from one another, many share similar concepts of balance and reciprocity with the Earth. Because of this, harm to the watershed directly impacts the Indigenous peoples who still live here. They live in community with the Earth, and this is an important balance from which I think we all can learn a beneficial lesson. The Euro-American

. Disruptive behaviors such as incivility, lateral violence, horizontal violence, relational aggression, or bullying are not acceptable in the nursing profession. Civility is the reflection of professional empathy and understanding and demonstrates accountability and respect. Incivility includes: openly challenging faculty and classmates, lack of classroom etiquette, gossiping, texting, talking or misusing electronic devices during class or clinical, and making rude gestures (Holm, 2014). From the American

, she was asked to consider the position of CEO of the YWCA.  she accepted the position on July 5, 2005. In addition to her work at the YWCA, she teaches in the Fundraising Management Certification Program at UWT. Miriam serves on the board of the Department of Commerce Building Communities Fund and the Mary Redman Foundation. She is a member of Tacoma Rotary 8, the Pierce County Human Services Coalition and a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum.  Past board service included 8 years on

briefly reuniting with her mother, Agi was placed with a different family without children, where she was lonely and discouraged from speaking to neighbors. May 8, 1945, the day that the war ended, was a day of happiness for Agi at the thought of being reunited with her mother. Candy, chocolates, and gum were dropped to her and other children from American planes overhead. For many Hungarians, however, including the family that Agi had stayed with, this day was an unhappy one. Liberation by the

ScheduleSteve is also the author of 50 Children: One ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission in the Heart of Nazi Germany (HarperCollins, 2014)Robert P. EricksenModerator: Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies (emeritus)Bio: Robert P. Ericksen is the author of Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany (Cambridge, 2012) and Theologians under Hitler (Yale, 1985), which appeared in German, Dutch, and Japanese translation and was turned into a

out of fear and as a means of attempting to control blackness. Ehrenhaus will be listed as first author on this book project, with A. Susan Owen, professor of communication studies and African-American studies at the University of Puget Sound as second. Their book’s working title, White Terror, is meant to characterize the double-bind underlying historical black-white relations of power. Though social conditions change through time, the cycle of fear, repression, resistance and retributive

Information Sue, D. W. (2010). Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and sexual orientation. New York, NY: Wiley. Sue, D. W., Capodilupo, C. M., Torino, G. C., Bucceri, J. M., Holder, A. M. B., Nadal, K. L., et al. (2007). Racial microaggressions in everyday life: Implications for clinical practice. American Psychologist, 62, 271–286.

through the study of heterogeneous Latin American and Latino experiences of coloniality, migration, and exile, and the realities of lived experience in borderland and/or transnational contact zones. 3) Students will come to know Latinos as subjects and producers of knowledge through the exploration of diverse and intersectional Latino/a/x identities. Students will engage questions of how indigeneity, race, class, gender, language, and nationality shape negotiations of Latino identities. Through their