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  • Pacific Lutheran University alumna Jessica Anderson ’07 is passionate about education, geosciences and technology, and has combined all three to become an award-winning educator.

    your four years at PLU and is there a teaching concept or philosophy you learned as an education student that stands out now, in retrospect? PLU is where I learned how to learn. I’d spent my entire education career playing school. It was in college that learning became authentic and meaningful. It felt like my learning had a purpose. In retrospect, it wasn’t the teaching concepts or philosophies that have gotten me to this point of my career, but the modeling of building relationships. My education

  • Speaker: Tamara R. Williams, Professor of Hispanic Studies Executive Director, Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education Location: Zoom

    Location: Zoom 3:40 - 4:45 p.m. | At the Edge of Wilderness: Healing and Transformation Speakers: Chuck Hoffman, Painter and Designer, Former Associate Creative Director for the Walt Disney Company Peg Hoffman, Painter, Lettering Artist, Designer, and Workshop Facilitator, Former Creative Director at Hallmark Cards Introduction by Sergia Hay, Associate Professor of Philosophy Location: Zoom 4:45 - 5:45 p.m. | Break 5:45 - 6:50 p.m. | Revitalizing Ancestral Foodways Speaker: Valerie Segrest, CEO Tahoma

  • Priya McBride, '16, Biology:  My Botany Tutorial was led by Oxford Professor Mr. Timothy Walker, Lecturer in Plant Sciences at Somerville College.

    a new cancer drug compared with simply providing palliative care. MARC’S TUTORIAL COUNTED AS ECON 323, Introduction to Health EconomicsStudent Perspectives: Matthew:  In my tutorial, I practiced inquiry into multiple academic disciplines, as I was reading from disciplines including (but not limited to) history, philosophy, english and communication. More importantly, I was able to hone these lessons by consistently writing and engaging in “thoughtful critical analysis.” Rainey: Another thing I

  • In her free time, professor of religion Dr. Bridgette O’Brien likes to participate in ultrarunning—completing runs longer than a marathon (26.2 miles). While Professor O’Brien is out on the trail, she often takes that time to think about her connection to the outdoors, a connection…

    work in English 320: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction. Read Previous Rediscovery: Dr. Jenkins and the Texts of Hermann Broch Read Next Philosophical Discourse and Tweeting: On Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin’s Public Philosophy LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022

  • Ed.D Courses

    Leadership development for administrators and faculty. Focus on higher education leadership models as they relate to PLU. Restricted to PLU administrators and faculty. (1 to 4) EDUC 589 : Philosophy of Education Philosophical and theoretical foundations of American education as well as the social philosophy of growing diverse populations in the K-12 schools. (3) EDUC 591 : Independent Study To provide individual graduate students graduate-level study not available in the regular curriculum. The title

  • The Tacoma Refugee Choir, an important support and resource for Kaelin Lor, History major and '23 alum, recently released the video, Everyone Can Love Someone and Kaelin has shared it with us.

    Someone” and Kaelin has shared it with us.  Thank you, Kaelin! We hope that you will enjoy viewing this lovely video ~ Tacoma Refugee Choir – “Everyone Can Love Someone” Zachery Gostisha '21Zackery graduated in Spring 2021 with a major in History and minors in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Philosophy, and Critical Race Studies. At PLU he was a part of Phi Alpha Theta and completed both a Benson and a Mayer fellowship. His Benson research examined how early European explorers of the Pacific Northwest

  • The PLU Psychology colloquium series aims to provide PLU students, faculty and staff rich, meaningful exposure to the state of the art in research in psychology.

    : Philosophy/Psychology Dialog"Department of Psychology, Capital University and Department of Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University November 9, 2012K. Warner Schaie, Ph.D., ABEPP'The Seattle Longitudinal Study"Pennsylvania State University and University of Washington October 12, 2012Kathryn C. Oleson, Ph.D."Self-Doubt"Department of Psychology, Reed College September 14, 2012Alice Eagly, Ph.D."Women as Leaders: Negotiating the Labyrinth"Northwestern University, Evanston 2011-12 Colloquium Speakers

  • How to have fearlessly curious conversations in dangerously divided times 1:45 – 3:30 p.m. | March 7 | Chris Knutzen, Anderson University Center Who: Mónica Guzmán, Bridge-Builder, Journalist,

    Bio: Julia Watts Belser (she/her) is professor of Jewish Studies at Georgetown University and core faculty in Georgetown’s Disability Studies program, as well as a rabbi and longtime activist for disability and gender justice. Julia’s research brings classical Jewish texts into conversation with disability studies, feminist and queer theory, and environmental justice. She is the author of several scholarly books, including Rabbinic Tales of Destruction: Gender, Sex, and Disability in the Ruins of

  • 8:15 a.m. | March 8 | Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts   Who: Bob Ferguson Title: Washington State Attorney General Bio: Bob Ferguson is Washington State’s 18th Attorney

    Sun-Hee Park Title: Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies with affiliations in Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California – Santa Barbara Bio: Lisa Sun-Hee Park is professor and chair of Asian American Studies, with affiliations in Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California – Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at Northwestern University. Park’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the politics of migration, race, health, and

  • Jessie Klauder finds a swimming regimen that treats the whole student By Nick Dawson Jessie Klauder ’11 made the decision a year ago. During J-Term of her senior year, Klauder would participate in the School of Nursing’s first study away program in China, where she…

    (qualifying time), I decided to stay on course. Coach was okay with it.” “PLU values the study away program,” Sellman explained. “If swimming as a sport didn’t fit into that philosophy, we would shoot ourselves in the foot. The swimming program is part of the greater PLU community, and as their coach I want them to have the best experience they can have while they’re students at PLU.” There are tradeoffs, Sellman admitted, because of sacrifices made by individual student-athletes and by their teams when