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faculty members helps students become entrenched in their studies. Through student-faculty research, students incorporate their own experiences with academia in a way that Lewis says improves critical thinking, writing and understanding of students’ subjects of interest. Cynthia Waite '20 Waite’s project, a study of faculty-student mentoring, caught the spirit of the day. Psychology Professor Wendelyn Shore, an expert on the topic, was Waite’s mentor, and was intrigued to hear Waite characterized
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By Mollie Smith ’17 and Mandi LeCompte Jennifer Rhyne first came to PLU in 2005 when her husband, Jim Brown, was offered a job as the chair of voice studies in the Department of Music. In her first few years, she taught a few flute students, but as the years went by her responsibilities eventually grew to include instructing theory classes and directing the flute ensemble. In 2015 a full-time, tenure-track position for a flute and theory professor opened, and a national search ensued. Rhyne
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other hundreds of hit songs that have made Beyoncé a worldwide music icon. But it was just one of the questions students tackled in the Women’s and Gender Studies course titled Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory. “The general premise of the course is to think about Beyoncé as a social, political and cultural figure through the lens of black feminist theory,” said Jennifer Smith, PLU’s first dean for inclusive excellence. Smith co-taught the class with PLU’s Center for Gender Equity Outreach and
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- 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
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outreach education programs. EDUC 403: Building Professional Learning Communities (2) EDUC 404: The Integration of Literacy in Social Studies (3) EDUC 407: Writing Across the Curriculum (2) SPED 404: Collaboration, Team Building, and Supervision (2) EDUC 495: Internship (placement in an outreach education program) (10 hrs) EDUC 450: Seminar – SR (2)
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Quick, tasty and healthy? ‘Food & Narrative’ explores the foodie possibilities Posted by: Todd / February 5, 2016 February 5, 2016 About five years ago, Donovan Conley realized his passion for cooking and good food was something more than a pastime. As an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at University of Nevada, it dawned on him that food had everything to do with his scholarly work. Food touched everything that mattered, from the environment to labor practices, from federal policy
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1988 Rieke Leadership AwardPresident Rieke establishes the Rieke Leadership Award, a scholarship for students invested in diversity and inclusion working 1990 Women’s Center establishedWomen’s Center of Pacific Lutheran University established in East Campus. Women’s StudiesWomen’s Studies Minor passed by faculty. 1993 PLU 2000“Activating the Commitment to Diversity” identified as one of five university axioms through the PLU 2000 long-range planning process. 1994 Diversity in the Core
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(September 09, 2010) Earth Day Speaker, University of Northern Florida, The Theory of the Macaw, Jacksonville, Florida (April 25, 2010) World Conversations Keynote Presentation, Traffic in Paradise, Pacific Lutheran University (February 28, 2009) Selected Articles "Nature Is a Story That We Live: Reading and Teaching Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” in the Drake Passage." ISLE ( Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment ) December 19, 2012: "Mothers and Other Creatures
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the United Nations General Assembly on the International Day of Holocaust Remembrance, to highlight their focus on “Women in the Holocaust”. Her other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship; membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; a Fulbright Fellowship in Israel; the Kroener fellowship in Holocaust studies at Oxford University; and fellowships from Ford, Rockefeller, NSF, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in the United States. In 2007 she received a national medal as a
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. Can IHON work with my major?Yes, absolutely! IHON students have majored and minored in every program at PLU, from Biology to Global Studies, Nursing to English, Business to Education. Because IHON courses are interdisciplinary, they work well with all majors. We offer courses every semester, including January term, so that we can accommodate highly scheduled majors like Nursing and Education. In fact, IHON students often find IHON easier to fit into the major than the other Gen Ed because it
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