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  • Sarah Saavedra ’22 is a social work major with a minor in psychology and a certificate in Peace Corps Prep. The Auburn resident is the first in her family to go to college. She credits her many scholarships for navigating college as a first-year student.…

    my degree supporting this population because it is a helping profession. It is ingrained in us by the values and principles of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) code of ethics, which includes challenging injustice and help people in need and address social problems. How it will directly support, I have no idea. But I do know that the broadness of this profession will lead and has led to the creation of programs and advocacy groups to lessen certain barriers, and my hope is to do

  • Today’s Chapel at PLU: Collaboration, Community, Choice (and a Celebratory Song That Needs Your Lyrics!) University Pastor Nancy Connor at the 2013 Blessing of the Animals service in PLU’s Lagerquist Hall. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications In 1952, Pacific…

    . 26: Dr. Aana Vigen, Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Loyola University Chicago Musician: James Brown, Associate Professor of Music Sept. 29: Dr. Sergia Hay, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Musician: Anikka Abbott ’15, vocalist For more information, click here.   Sept. 12 is an especially high-profile day at Chapel: PLU President Thomas W. Krise will speak on the history and importance of alma mater, LuteCast will Livestream the entire service and a new alma mater tune composed

  • The School of Nursing's conceptual frameworks, undergraduate and graduate, are guided by the mission of PLU and the mission of the School of Nursing.

    interaction. The nurse interacts as a facilitator or collaborative leader with person in four professional roles: (1) provider of direct/indirect care; (2) designer, manager and coordinator of safe, quality care; (3) inter-professional collaborator; and (4) professional. The health interaction is nested in the context of informed caring and defined by an ethical decision-making framework that respects diverse values and beliefs and incorporates moral concepts, advocacy, professional ethics and law

  • Following Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin’s recent publication in Newsweek, PLU’s Philosophy Department Chair sat down with me to discuss her article’s reception, the role of Twitter in philosophical discourse, and how philosophers of the modern day relate to the public. The article, originally published by…

    audience.” Dr. Shanks Kaurin speaks to her audience not only as a specialist, but as someone they can relate to. Having recently followed Dr. Shanks Kaurin on Twitter myself, I was struck by the variety of content in the tweets she pens to her followers—mostly military people, ex-military people, and national security people in DC, according to Dr. Shanks Kaurin. Despite this specific audience, she doesn’t post exclusively on military ethics. Scrolling through her page, I found selfies, pictures

  • 12 semester hours in one of the following six work sectors A. Education  12 semester hours from one of the following areas Biology Chemistry Computer Science Education English Geosciences Math

    Natural Resources GEOS 332: Geomorphology HIST 370: Environmental History of the U.S. PHIL 226: Environmental Ethics PHIL 327: Environmental Philosophy POLS 346: Environmental Politics and Policy RELI 239: Environment and Culture RELI 365: Climate Justice RELI 393: Topics in Comparative Religions (when topic is “Native Traditions in PNW” only) Geosciences GEOS 103: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Geologic Hazards GEOS 201: Geologic Principles Native American and Indigenous Studies NAIS 244: Environmental

  • By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org…

    convivial was popularized by Ivan Illich in his 1973 book, Tools for Conviviality. It is still surprisingly relevant.) For high school students who become interested in computing, there are a wide range of subjects that they can study in college to think about the implications of computational thinking in industry and society. We’re really at the beginning of a surge in computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, technical education, and the history and ethics of computing. Computer

  • By Damian Alessandro ’19 It’s awards season! Not the Academy Awards –although we do host awards parties at Pacific Lutheran University. I’m writing about the annual awards for innovation that have everyone whispering excitedly in the discipline of Innovation Studies. That’s right–its the Edison Awards…

    are also actively registering for the minor’s gateway course Hist/Phil 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society, offered in Fall 2018. For more information, contact Michael Halvorson or explore the Innovation Studies website. Read Previous Alexa and Innovation Research at Amazon Read Next The 2018 Rachel Carson Science and Technology Lecture LATEST POSTS INOV 350: Innovation Seminar in Spring 2025 November 21, 2024 Have you considered an Innovation Studies minor? September 16, 2024 COMA 248 Upcoming

  • Since its inception two years ago, a total of five students have graduated with their graduate kinesiology degree from PLU. We had the opportunity to speak with Matt Leslie from the first graduating class of the MSK program. Here’s what Matt Leslie had to say…

    field of sport and performance psychology, was a gift. It opened my eyes to the standards of quality and ethics that are needed to work in this field.Advice for future MSK studentsIf you have an idea of what you want to do for your final project, start talking to faculty members as soon as possible. They will help you gauge the feasibility of your project, and you will learn early on who has the background, expertise, and interest to help you maximize your project’s impact. Read more: Check out more

  • Hard work pays off. Networking is key. Relationships are everything.  While this advice might sound cliché, people give it often, and for good reason. Just ask Pacific Lutheran University’s Keegan Dolan ’22.  Dolan, a double major in philosophy and economics , is in the midst…

    philosophy courses have been very helpful with the qualitative work that I’ve been assigned; the ability to craft an argument, as well as the ability to respond to possible objections to your position, have certainly served me well.” So what’s next for this PLU soccer and Ultimate Frisbee player who’s also debated in two Ethics Bowls? Dolan will be taking advantage of the university’s PLUS Year program, spending a fifth year soaking in life at PLU and hopefully study abroad at Oxford.  He’s unsure what

  • Michael Halvorson ’85 was a technologist before he was a historian. His PLU undergraduate degree is in computer science and he worked at Microsoft for the first 10 years of his career. He spent the next 15 years writing books about software and emerging technology.…

    those things have been over time,” he explains. “An analysis of innovation should look at human communities, economic issues, art & design, ethics, technology, and more. If you examine these elements in an interdisciplinary way, you can really assess the dynamics of change in society.” Halvorson teaches business and economic history courses in the history department, as well as classes on innovation and the history of technology. He has also continued publishing books, including the lively new