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  • society. “This is an excellent opportunity to have public discussion about human consumption of animal flesh, a critically important ethical question that impacts all of our lives. It is also a wonderful and unique set-up for a debate where I have the chance to both partner with and learn alongside undergraduate students,” Emmerman said. Dr. Michael Schleeter is an Assistant Professor at PLU with a B.A. in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Biology from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in

  • knowledge about some of the most current revelations in the fields of medicine, literature, computer science and a host of other disciplines.” The candidates recommended in the peer review are considered for awards to more than 130 programs around the world. The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, appointed by the U.S. president, makes the final selection of candidates. Along with her two Fulbright awards, Lisosky has taken her teaching on the road by leading more than 120 students on

  • priority enhancements to academic facilities and equipment, and we have continued to perform critical physical plant maintenance. ●      In spite of a difficult economic environment, our fund-raising successes continued. There were more than 10,000 donors to the university last year, that’s more than any time in our history. Progress on our $100 million “Engage the World” campaign was slow in the early months of last year, but a flurry of major gifts over the past six months moved the campaign past the

  • October 22, 2012 PLU professor selected as Chair of the Curti Prize committee PLU Professor E. Wayne Carp has been selected by the Organization of American Historians as Chair of the 2013 Curti Prize Committee. The Merle Curti Prize is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians, the most prestigious and influential U.S. historical organization, for the best book in American social and/or intellectual history. Carp is a professor of history at PLU and holds the Benson Family

  • want them to learn to do. Then you assess what they do, with clear criteria and standards. The assessment can be done via such things as: Simulations Demonstrations Team projects Explication activities (for example, in literature) Writing Some Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) Foundational KnowledgeHere, you just want to determine if students “understand and remember” important concepts, terminology, principles, etc. Possible Assessment Procedures: Traditional kinds of paper/pencil tests Drill

  • Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welcomed Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University… July 31, 2019 Benson LectureEmpire of Cottoninnovation studiesSven Beckert

  • escaped to the United States during the Holocaust and settled in San Francisco. “I thought, ‘I need to do a Kurt Mayer segment,’” Christensen said. “And I thought, ‘Why hadn’t I thought of that before, and why hadn’t I done that while he was alive?’” Christensen had known Mayer personally—not well, she said, but very meaningfully, through her opportunity to work with him on the German translation of his memoir, My Personal Brush with History . Christensen ran into Mayer’s son, Joe, at a Powell-Heller

  • escaped to the United States during the Holocaust and settled in San Francisco. “I thought, ‘I need to do a Kurt Mayer segment,’” Christensen said. “And I thought, ‘Why hadn’t I thought of that before, and why hadn’t I done that while he was alive?’” Christensen had known Mayer personally—not well, she said, but very meaningfully, through her opportunity to work with him on the German translation of his memoir, My Personal Brush with History . Christensen ran into Mayer’s son, Joe, at a Powell-Heller

  • Sociology Capstone Presentations - Spring 2019 Saturday, May 18, 2019 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Anderson University Center Schedule of Events WELCOME RECEPTION 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. CAPSTONE PRESENTATIONS 9:20 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. SENIOR CLASS PHOTO 11:20 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS 11:20 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. AWARDS, HONORS, & RECOGNITIONS 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Presentations Capstone Presentations 1 9:20 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.Anderson University Center, #213Education and InequalityMorgan HanseenChristina

  • educational tradition of working for issues of justice and tolerance. According to Professor Emeritus of History Philip Nordquist’s ’56 second book documenting the history of PLU “Inquiry, Service, Leadership and Care: Pacific Lutheran University 1988-2008,” faculty members were already studying and teaching about the Holocaust as soon as the 1950s. But when Christopher Browning began his tenure as professor in PLU’s history department in 1974, he brought with him a renewed interest in the subject