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. Rikke Platz Cortsen is Danish lecturer at University of Texas, Austin where she teaches Danish language and culture including courses on Hans Christian Andersen, Northern European Comics, Contemporary Scandinavian Stories and Copenhagen as a City of Culture. She got her PhD from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on time and space in comics. She researches space and place in comics in the Nordic countries and her latest peer reviewed publication is “Kverneland and Fiske in the Footsteps of
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subject or seek an understanding of issues and conditions specific to incarcerated persons. Research with incarcerated persons will be reviewed by the full HPRB at a convened meeting. See HPRB meeting schedule here. + Students or college employeesStudents recruited as participants in faculty- or staff-initiated research, and employees recruited for research initiated by PLU faculty, staff or students, require special considerations for engaging them in research. You should pay particular attention to
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MediaLab film “Changing Currents” receives awards in multiple categories Posted by: Todd / December 1, 2016 December 1, 2016 MediaLab, the applied research and media services program at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), received a total of six awards on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, from the Accolade Global Film Competition of Southern California for the new documentary “Changing Currents: Protecting North America’s Rivers.” “Changing Currents,” which publicly premiered at Tacoma’s Theatre on the
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Avoid a Life Plan,” will focus on the future implications of mankind’s current actions — a fitting topic for a man dedicated to child health and preventative medicine. “What are the things that we should be focusing on as threats to our very survival, and what are some of the most important things we could now do to reduce those threats and improve the future if humanity does survive?” Foege wrote. “You each get one lifetime to take those actions. What are the skills and the knowledge you should
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. Fulbright Student Fellowships are Eric Buley, Nicolette Paso and Kelly Ryan. Eric Buley – English Teaching Assistant in Venezuela Kelly Ryan was selected as a Fulbright recipient to conduct research in Macedonia. Buley will be placed in either one of Venezuela’s universities or at a Binational Center (learning centers affiliated with the U.S. Embassy) as an English teaching assistant. There he will lead language learning classes, facilitate conversation groups and present lectures and discussions on U.S
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positions, including work in multi-modal argumentation and how our senses influence our reasoning. Recently, he has studied sound as it relates to argumentation, how it can make us feel, how it works in advertisements and how it impacts the way we reason. “As a discipline, argument tends to approach the ways people resolve disagreement as visual,” Eckstein said. “For instance, work on political advertisements might focus on the visuals or the text of the words uttered. But this sort of analysis misses
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Method Approach, 4th ed (Orbis Books 2012) Climate Justice: Ethics, Energy, and Public Policy (Fortress 2010) The Power to Change: U.S. Energy Policy and Global Warming (PCUSA 2007) Biography James Martin-Schramm is Professor of Religion at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where his research and teaching focus on ethics, energy, and climate change; ethics and technology; and Christian ethics. Dr. Martin-Schramm holds the Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York and is an alumnus of Pacific
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. “Those things are important, because you should be in that conversation, but they should not be the only conversations you have.” Young describes part of the problem lies in the tenure and promotion system at most universities, but PLU is an exception to the rule. PLU’s focus on service encourages faculty to engage in the public sphere as experts in their field. “What they’re trying to do is…elevate service as a legitimate third pillar of tenure and promotion,” Young says. “So that teaching is
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this fall to Antarctica. Once there, Moening-Swanson and Geosciences Professor Claire Todd will study the Tucker Glacier for possible signs of glacial retreat and the impacts of climate change. As on the other trips, Todd and Moening-Swanson will be heading out just after Thanksgiving, and return to PLU at the end of January. This will be Todd’s third trip to Antarctica with a PLU student to study glaciers in the frozen continent, and her fifth trip to Antarctica overall. The pair will be launching
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the general practice of higher education institutions in the U.S., especially private universities, which routinely announce three to five percent tuition increases each spring. “On average, students at private universities in the Puget Sound region are paying $5,391 (12.9%) more in their senior year than they did in their first year,” explained PLU President Allan Belton. “One of the problems with this model is that when tuition creeps up by three or four percent each year, a student’s annual
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