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Next of kin: the ethics of eating, capturing, and experimenting on great apes One of the pressing problems of our times is the future of the great apes. All of the great apes – chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans – are endangered. Their habitat is…
Views of Roger and Debbi Fouts: We are Hers”). One of our hopes in all of this work is to counter the common human assumption that we can leave unexamined the ways in which we treat beings who not only share 98 percent of our DNA, but who are intelligent, emotional and highly social creatures. This work seems to fit well with the purpose of our PLU Kelmer-Roe Faculty/Student Fellowship: “bringing the wisdom of the humanities disciplines to bear on enduring human questions and on the contemporary
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TACOMA, WASH. (March. 25, 2020) — Distance learning and teaching can feel isolating at times. PLU Professor of Hispanic Studies Bridget Yaden has been combating these potential limitations by using different technological tools to make her virtual classroom as accessible and accommodating as possible. The…
trying out a new online resource for making a digital map of different Spanish dialects, thanks to support from PLU’s Digital Humanities Lab (led by professors Adela Ramos and Scott Rogers), which we are continuing during our asynchronous time. PLU: Has teaching Hispanic studies through a distance-learning model been challenging? What are some new tools you’ve developed or embraced? Yaden: I’ve taught HISP 101 and 102 fully online now for several years in the summer, so I guess I was as prepared as I
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Lizbett Benge ’11 describes her educational journey as “a long and winding road.” It began with her immersion into foster care and deeply influenced her time at PLU, where she grappled with a set of life experiences few of her peers could understand. Benge felt…
. postdoctoral fellow for Innovation in the Humanities at Carleton College in Minnesota. Benge’s dissertation work focused on foster-care-involved youth. Through a combination of research, interviews, and theater productions, Benge’s project asked a vital question: “What are the strategies for survival that those with foster care experience create and cultivate to lead lives they deem worth living?”Benge explored this question several ways. She examined self-portraits painted by youths in the foster care
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Our data science major and minor are about ethically stewarding and gleaning insights from data. We are committed to developing data scientists who understand the weight of their contributions and
) PSYC 242: Advanced Statistics and Research Design (4) SOCI 232: Research Methods (4) Petition for a course to count as a Domain-Specific ElectiveCOURSE DESCRIPTIONS Courses offered by data scienceDATA 133: INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE IIntroduction to computer programming and problem-solving using real datasets from a variety of domains such as science, business, and the humanities. Introduces the basics of data science concepts through computational thinking, modeling and simulation and data
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Professor of Kinesiology | Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies | hackercm@plu.edu | 253-535-7363 | Dr.
at such diverse groups as the Miller Humanities Lecture, the American Psychological Association, the National Institutes of Health, the Pan American Sports Organization, the Association of Applied Sport Psychology, the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and the United States Olympic Committee Coaching Summit. Articles about Dr. Hacker’s work have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, Sports Illustrated, The APA Monitor, The New York Times and The Washington Post
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Mission: The Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference at Pacific Lutheran University teaches the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to students and educators throughout the Pacific
Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Lehmann first gained international recognition as an authority on Pietism. He has also published extensively on questions having to do with 19th and 20th century German, including the place of Martin Luther in German nationalism, and the response of humanities in general to the Nazi state.Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th
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Mission: The Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference at Pacific Lutheran University teaches the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to students and educators throughout the Pacific
Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Lehmann first gained international recognition as an authority on Pietism. He has also published extensively on questions having to do with 19th and 20th century German, including the place of Martin Luther in German nationalism, and the response of humanities in general to the Nazi state.Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th
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Mission: The Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference at Pacific Lutheran University teaches the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to students and educators throughout the Pacific
Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Lehmann first gained international recognition as an authority on Pietism. He has also published extensively on questions having to do with 19th and 20th century German, including the place of Martin Luther in German nationalism, and the response of humanities in general to the Nazi state.Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th
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Mission: The Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference at Pacific Lutheran University teaches the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to students and educators throughout the Pacific
Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Lehmann first gained international recognition as an authority on Pietism. He has also published extensively on questions having to do with 19th and 20th century German, including the place of Martin Luther in German nationalism, and the response of humanities in general to the Nazi state.Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th
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Mission: The Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference at Pacific Lutheran University teaches the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to students and educators throughout the Pacific
Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Lehmann first gained international recognition as an authority on Pietism. He has also published extensively on questions having to do with 19th and 20th century German, including the place of Martin Luther in German nationalism, and the response of humanities in general to the Nazi state.Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th
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