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dissertation, though she had no idea at the time. “Some teachers do not impact your life until years later when you realize that you have been teaching elements of his or her work without even realizing it,” Wallace says. For her PhD, she attended the University of Colorado. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival had also offered her a job as a dramaturg and she was given the opportunity to teach during her four years there. At University of Colorado, it was the norm for PhD students to rotate the classes they

important social impact. Social innovation At PLU, we’ve been studying social innovation all year in our new Innovation Studies program. As part of our work, we invited Alice Steinglass to share her organization’s strategy during this year’s Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. Steinglass participated in a workshop on teaching computer science in local schools (with Heavenly Cole and Laurie Murphy), and she delivered an exciting evening talk for about 180-students, faculty, and alumni

in Rome,” he said. “But I’ve made good progress.” Now that his sabbatical is over, Dr. Torvend is balancing his roles as a researcher and an educator. “Many times,” he said, “it’s been student questions or a students’ insights that have actually prompted me to move in a new direction in my research.” Dr. Torvend’s teaching has long touched on these topics, with courses in theology of nature and Jewish and Christian views on the environment. He has also sponsored a variety of conferences at PLU

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supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others, and by the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice.”– Provided by publisher. Morris, Monique W. Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues 

Studies program. The 20-credit minor is designed as a companion program to strengthen each major on campus and make it outward facing. Innovation Studies is currently among the fastest-growing programs at PLU, with students enrolling with core interests in Business, Art & Design, Computer Science, History, Economics, Communication, and more. Mariken Lund (right) and her friends model ELSK the Studio products at a photo shoot Innovation Studies seems to fit a new generation of students that is eager to

instruction for a divisive and inflammatory online space rife with infighting where there could be community. While drafting this review, my mind has of course been occupied by the Supreme Court’s likely overturn of Roe v. Wade and what this means for women’s reproductive rights and bodily autonomy- things that have never gone unchallenged. The choice we currently possess is by no means a luxury- it is a right- but we cannot rest on our laurels as not so long ago women did not have the rights that we now

workshop and clubhouse where students drop in and test out ideas, improvise and hone their craft. It is evident, too, when speaking with PLU Assistant Professor of Theater Amanda Sweger, who begins her second year at PLU teaching theater lighting and design. It is clear she looks at this type of collaboration in the same way a natural science professor in Rieke Science Center might look at a student–faculty research project. It is for this reason Sweger is so quick to let the students learn the light

workshop and clubhouse where students drop in and test out ideas, improvise and hone their craft. It is evident, too, when speaking with PLU Assistant Professor of Theater Amanda Sweger, who begins her second year at PLU teaching theater lighting and design. It is clear she looks at this type of collaboration in the same way a natural science professor in Rieke Science Center might look at a student–faculty research project. It is for this reason Sweger is so quick to let the students learn the light