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TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 24, 2015)—On Sept. 21, I had the immense privilege of meeting and getting to know members of the iDebate Rwanda team. Although it is always an honor to spend time with international guests, their visit was of special importance to me as…
, and learning to face their feelings through debate, these Rwandans have found a way to bring complex issues to the surface rather than burying them away. It seems inconceivable that many Rwandans became neighbors with their enemies after the genocide, but perhaps this is a lesson in forgiveness and reconciliation that is almost beyond our comprehension. I believe we tend to have very black-and-white views of good and evil, which is part of the reason delving further into atrocities such as the
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Response to PolicyMic article: ‘The Obama Administration Finally Has An Answer to Student Debt — And Colleges Hate It’ Posted by: Thomas Krise / May 27, 2014 May 27, 2014 A student messaged me on my Facebook page the other day with an article on college rating systems. Along with messaging her back my response, I thought to share my opinion here with you. Hi President Krise, I’m eager to hear your thoughts on this issue: The Obama Administration Finally Has An Answer to Student Debt — And
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PLU announces Fixed Tuition Guarantee, reducing financial risk to students and running counter to common higher ed practice Posted by: Zach Powers / October 18, 2021 October 18, 2021 By Zach Powers ‘10PLU Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University has just announced a Fixed Tuition Guarantee that will ensure tuition for the 2022–23 incoming class of first-year and transfer students will remain the same throughout their undergraduate years at the university.This guarantee disrupts
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Funk,a Senior Analyst at Hall & Partners, a marketing research firm that focuses on strategic brand consultancy in Seattle Washington, started out in a non-profit prior to obtaining her master’s degree in marketing research. In her experience with the non-profit, she was able to wear many marketing “hats.” Now in her position with Hall & Partners and with her analytical master’s degree, she has taken most of those hats off and has focused in on her true marketing interest, research. Specifically
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PLU to spend March 1 remembering Ambassador Chris Stevens and exploring international diplomacy and service Posted by: Silong Chhun / February 6, 2023 Image: Ryan M. Gliha, Diplomat in Residence – Northwest, U.S. Department of State (photo courtesy of Ryan M. Gliha) February 6, 2023 Pacific Lutheran University’s Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education will host the sixth biennial Ambassador Chris Stevens Celebration of Service on March 1. The celebration offers a day of events
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Ann O’Hara Graff Award from the Women’s Seminar of the Catholic Theological Society of America in 2001, and an Honorable Mention for Best Gender Issues Book from the Catholic Press Association in 2007. Ross received her B.A. in 1972 from Manhattanville College in New York and earned her M.A. in 1976 and her Ph.D. in 1982 from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She taught theology at St. Norbert College from 1980 until 1983 and at Duquesne University from 1983 until 1985 before moving to
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the idea for the book while they were doing research together at the Folger Shakespeare Library a few years ago. “We were doing some research into handwriting and paleography, but we realized that we both had an interest in consciousness and what it meant to be awake and what it meant to be asleep, and the philosophical implications of that, as they manifested in literature.” Professor Nancy Simpson-Younger Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance CoEdited by Nancy
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Holocaust Distortion and Denial. Events will include presentations by two of the most prominent Holocaust scholars in the world, Dr. Yehuda Bauer and Dr. Christopher Browning. The conference will close with a panel featuring research projects by student recipients of the Kurt Mayer Summer Scholarship. The annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education provides educators, students, and community members a way to use the lessons of the Holocaust to empower themselves and others to challenge
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By Sarah Cornell-Maier ‘19. This Fall, Pacific Lutheran University is introducing a new class that serves as a gateway to the Innovation Studies Program . Hist/Phil 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society is a team-taught course that combines many different fields of study into one. It…
and connected to the worlds of work and research. Students complete drawing and improv exercises, work in teams, and learn the stages in innovation research. The process is fun for the teachers, as well as the students. “Innovation Studies is by nature interdisciplinary,” said Professor Halvorson, director of the program. “Our students collaborate on problem solving by working and laughing together at the boundaries of art & design, business, economics, history, and other disciplines. The
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to implement research into your future career, if possible? Yes, of course, in a Ph.D. program, I’ll have to do research. After that, who can say? In my future career, I hope to research and develop new syntheses and novel drugs based on natural products that can be used for treating neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. A key part of my future career will be doing research and developing new syntheses. What made you pursue the IHON-Oxford Program? I really wanted
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