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or co-learner. Professor of Psychology Wendy Shore received the Faculty Excellence Award in Mentoring. PLU sponsors Faculty Excellence Awards to recognize outstanding accomplishments of the faculty in five areas of faculty work: teaching, advising, mentoring, research, and service. Their peers have nominated and selected the recipients, signifying their high regard among those who know them well.Shore exemplifies her mentoring philosophy by forming profound connections with her students. As a

’15 and Cassady Counter ’14, worked the night at various sites for the News Tribune and added their accounts of the night’s activities to the News Tribune Political Buzz blog. “It was pretty successful for us considering it was a slow election year,” Jorgenson said. Matt Misterek, Team Leader and student supervisor at the News Tribune, said the Tribune was glad to have the students contributing on election night. “They did well, especially on the early tweets. We retweeted a lot of their info

acts as a presentational force in the service of standpoint.” It was presented in the Argumentation and Forensics Division. Dr. Amy Young, Associate Professor of Communication, received the award for her paper “Beyond Supreme: Retired Supreme Court Justices as Public Intellectuals”, which deals with the increasingly vocal, political and mediated role we’ve seen Stevens, Souter and O’Connor play since their respective retirements.  It was presented in the Communication & the Law Division. Young’s

the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries.  Students will experience music in the spaces where many of these great works were first heard.  Museums and cathedrals of the region will help students gain a greater understanding of the times and socio-political climate to contextualize the lives of these great composers. Students start their adventure in Leipzig then travel to Berlin followed by travels to Prague, Salzburg and finally Vienna.  Check here for the full itinerary.Follow their adventures on

, but the halls of Olympia’s legislative buildings are vibrant with the earnest bustle of policymakers, analysts, administrators, constituent advocates and lobbyists. Among the thousands of hard-working public-policy enthusiasts who make the wheels of the Legislature turn are many Lutes, including PLU senior T.R Sullivan, a Policy Intern working for the Senate Democratic Caucus.Sullivan, a Political Science Major and PLU’s singular intern at the 2015 legislative session, met us over his lunch hour

movement. In David Martin’s 1776 portrait of Belle alongside her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray, Belle cannot escape Martin’s exoticizing brush, which swoops in to flourish her with tropical fruit. In Sanditon, viewers see fruit serving a political significance as well, with pineapples being used in connection with Georgiana’s goal to rally community support for abolition in both seasons of the series. Taking these details into consideration, the Martin’s foregrounding of a white woman and a Black woman

; and Kevin O’Brien, Brian Naasz and Becca Krzmarzick ’10 as they talk about their work together and what each of the learned from the other regarding their callings in life. (iii) Prof. Andrea Munro! Wed 4/6, 7 – 8 p.m., AUC Regency Room “Which Questions Matter: Scientists and Philosophers in Dialogue” Back by popular demand, this year’s edition of scientists and philosophers in dialogue features Sergia Hay and Mike Schleeter from the department of philosophy, Andrea Munro from the Chemistry

College & Conservatory, as well as bachelor degrees in composition, organ performance, and philosophy from Oberlin. Murphy-Mancini  has a special connection with the institution’s awe inspiring Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ, designed by Paul Fritts. While living in San Diego, he had “the frequent privilege to play [Fritts’] Opus 5,” an early instrument Fritts built in 1985 for All Souls Church in Point Loma.  The vibrant music culture at PLU played a significant role in Murphy-Mancini’s decision to

the next 20 years at a cost of £20 billion. Trident’s opponents point out that other countries have either ended their own nuclear weapons programs (Brazil and South Africa), or removed other countries’ nuclear weapons from their soil (Canada and the Ukraine), without either jeopardizing their own security or destabilizing the international balance of power. Bottom Line: Britain would be no less secure if it were to phase out its nuclear weapons. Peter Grosvenor Associate Professor of Political

unconditional commitment). In this essay, I will consider the third of these objections, especially as it applies to Christian belief, and argue that there is in fact no incompatibility.  Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Keith Cooper How could it not be inappropriate to take belief in God as a hypothesis to be tested? Faith, as many would say, is a matter of commitment, unconditional commitment that precludes discussion about the strength of its rational support. Since adherents of religious faith are not