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TACOMA, WASH. (March. 2, 2020) — Jared Wright ‘14 arrived at PLU eager to engage in community work and excited to study social justice. He didn’t have specific plans and didn’t know what it would all look like, but he can clearly remember the excitement…
serves as a coordinator of Lutheran Community Services Northwest’s refugee resettlement program. “Looking back at my four years at PLU, it all makes sense,” Wright says. “I’m really grateful for my PLU experience because I feel like it truly did prepare me for the work I do now that is rooted in social justice and community.” Wright will be returning to PLU this week for the 9th Biennial Wang Center Symposium. He and four other alumni will discuss “Conflict, Peacebuilding, and the Ethics of Discourse
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Maria Surla has traveled a long and rewarding road. The 39-year-old recently graduated with PLU’s Class of 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. “The difficult experiences I’ve had made me who I am now,” Surla says. Born and raised in the Philippines, Surla…
internal conflicts nurses can experience when working in a correctional setting. The innovative, complex topic was of personal concern and interest to Surla. Correctional nursing doesn’t attract as much interest because of the unique internal tensions around ethics, safety and other staff. “A certified nurse must also be prepared in switching roles from acting as an emergency room nurse to a psychiatric nurse in a matter of minutes because you will never know what is going to come through the
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As a member of the University Student Media, our primary responsibility is to serve the PLU community.
important issues, events, and trends that impact the PLU community. Our efforts to document and chronicle our collective experience will provide a first draft of university history. Our primary values in the performance of our duties are reflected in the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics and the TAO of Journalism. Student Media Executive ApplicationDue on Friday, April 19Student media is searching for the next team of student executives for all media outlets including The Mast, Mast TV
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Originally published in 2005 For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took…
, Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (Avon 1975; 2nd ed. 1990), Peter Singer gave a new academic respectability to animal issues and stimulated a renewed vigor in social-action campaigns on behalf of animals. He also explicitly linked animals with other social liberation movements. These other movements are now well established in universities with vigorous multi-disciplinary programs in gender studies, ethnic studies, and so forth. Not so animals. As far as I know, there is
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Join the Computer Science Department to hear the senior capstone presentations. Student presentations will take place Friday and Saturday. All talks are scheduled in Morken 203.
overarching concepts, and give students another way to focus on learning course material. Our website features a number of study aids and games including: vocabulary quizzes, flashcards, a binary numbers game, ethics writing prompts, and an introduction to loops. The study aids and games were created using a variety of tools including Fisher and Yates algorithm, Durstenfeld Shuffle, CSS transitions class, and dynamic HTML (DHTML). The website is designed using custom images, and created using html, css
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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
techniques, natural language processing, databases, text mining, data science ethics/privacy, etc. Students will collaborate with the help of version control systems like GitHub. Python is the main programming language used. Prerequisite: DATA 133 or CSCI 144. Recommended: One of MATH/STAT 145, STAT 231, 232, 233, or MATH/STAT 242. (4)DATA 287 : SPECIAL TOPICS IN DATA SCIENCETo provide undergraduate students with new, one-time, and developing courses not yet available in the regular curriculum. The title
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To be Jewish in Poland, a predominantly Roman Catholic country, meant experiencing both the highs of cultural life and the absolute low of persecution and discrimination, culminating in the world’s
limited capacity they had. In the post-world war II environment of military tribunals and subsequent doctors’ trials, the field of medical science was forced to revise its code of ethical conduct and rethink its notion of patient informed consent, embodied in the Nuremberg Code.Learn more about the "First, Do No Harm: Medical Science, Ethics and the Holocaust" conference 2017 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust EducationThe 10th annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education “Synagogue
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In April 2023, PLU religion professor Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen , Ph.D., attended the Natural History Museum Late Night with PLU students at the University of Oxford. At Late Night events, the Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum host tours and various evening activities offered…
explore how deep currents of religious themes shape great literature, she returned to college to earn a Ph.D. in history and historical theology. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Llewellyn Ihssen began teaching at PLU in 2005 as an adjunct professor. Many of her courses focus on the intersection of medicine, economics, social ethics, and religion — a favorite course was “Health and Healing in Christian History.” Religious philosophies and theologies “shape people’s ideas of the body, and care
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Sophia Mahr ’18 analyzed how and why medical providers repeatedly and deliberately harmed people in the name of medical science by conducting non-consensual experiments on their subjects.
one many students should come to terms with, Kraig said — learning to live with discomfort. “Expertise, emotions and ethics all have to be considered in this work,” she said. “You can’t just honor the expertise. You have to develop habits of skepticism.” Kraig said the extensive research process taught Mahr to be independent in her quest for sustained inquiry: visiting archives on her own, reading sources she discovered on her own and doing so outside the classroom without the motivation of a
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Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…
reason. [2] PLU students at work in 2012 Since Plato, the Beautiful, the True, and the Good—these words and the ideals they express—have been significant in humanistic study. Aristotle, Plato’s student, added searching logical analysis in the Politics, Ethics, and Poetics. In the medieval trivium of Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, words reigned supreme. But these three are far from trivial! Out of the love of words, Erasmus produced the first printed Greek New Testament (1516). Based upon the
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