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  • Panel: Michael Artime, Corey L. ook, Justin Eckstein, Mary Ellard-Ivey, Sergia Hay, and Heidi Schutz Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center

    Disarming Polarization: Navigating Conflict and Difference in the 21st CenturyThursday, March 5Friday, March 6Thursday, March 58:15 - 9:45 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction: Asking the Questions Panel: Michael Artime, Corey L. ook, Justin Eckstein, Mary Ellard-Ivey, Sergia Hay, and Heidi Schutz Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center 9:55 - 11:40 a.m. | Religious Divides and the Expanding Circle of Cooperation Speaker: Dr. Ara Norenzayan, Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 25, 2020) — Noted academics, activists and practitioners whose life’s work engages polarization — within and across disciplines, traditions, communities and peoples — will gather at Pacific Lutheran University on March 5-6 for the 9th Biennial Wang Center Symposium, “Disarming Polarization: Navigating…

    Professor of Philosophy and Law Anthony Kwame Appiah, who will share his reflections on how widely held identity categories are used and abused. Ara Norenzayan, Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia and a co-director of UBC’s Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture, will address the evolutionary origins of religion and the psychology of religious diversity in today’s globalized world. Dean Spade, Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, will challenge

  • Theatre major Zivia Rich ’24 loves a good story. She is especially fond of them in the form of a radio show or podcast. Growing up, the Seattle-area native spent much of her time listening to KUOW, their local National Public Radio station. “We have…

    themes include colonialism, superstitions and prejudices — topics Rich believes are still prevalent today.  “I can’t speak to what H.G. Wells was thinking when he was writing it, but a lot of it is more inwardly reflective,” Rich said. “The Martians coming down are a lot more evocative of British imperialism than they are of an outside force.”Orson Welles’ production of “The War of the Worlds” is a mock radio broadcast reporting an alien invasion in New Jersey. When it debuted in 1938 during the

  • Professor Emeritus of Physics | Department of Physics | starkovich@plu.edu | Steven P.

    Steven Starkovich Professor Emeritus of Physics Email: starkovich@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Physics, University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1993 M.S., Educational Policy and Management, University of Oregon, 1985 B.A., Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 1976 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Mathematical Physics General Relativity Biography Steven P. Starkovich earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Victoria with research in general

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  • This list includes all the courses that contribute towards the Environmental Studies major and minor, and specifies the General Education requirements they fulfill and their pre-requisites.

    : Sophomore status (4) POLS 346: Environmental Politics and Policy (4) C. The Environment and Sensibility – 8 semester hours These courses examine the ways in which nature shapes and is shaped by human consciousness and perception. The courses critically interpret the values and assumptions that structure human communities and their relationships with the earth’s ecosystems. Students select two courses (from two different departments) from the following: ENGL 234: Environmental Literature (4) ENGL 394

  • The Department of Political Science is pleased to present their Spring 2024 Capstones. Presentations will be given on May 16th - Xavier Hall, Room 201 - 6:00-9:00 pm Click on each student name to

    FacilitiesSeth GebauerAnalysis and Results: Metropolitan Governance Fragmentation Appears to be Inconsequential on Transportation AccessibilityCalissa HagenReview of Literature Regarding the Revictimizations of Sexual Assault Survivors in the U.S. Court SystemZach HollidayMadelynne JonesGunnar SebrightCalli VossZach HollidayDid Political Independent Voters in the U.S. Play a Pivotal Role in the Outcome of the 2016 Presidential Election?Madelynne JonesPolicy Development of Nuclear EnergyGunnar SebrightUsing

  • Kelly Luce is the author of Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail, which won Foreword Review’s 2013 Editor’s Choice Prize for Fiction.

    Southern Review, and other publications. She received an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin in 2015. She’s a Contributing Editor for Electric Literature and a 2016-17 fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Her debut novel, Pull Me Under, is due November 1 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. She hails from Illinois and lives in California’s Santa Cruz mountains.

  • When: Thursday, March 7, 2019 The Writer’s Story: 4 pm in Ness Second Floor Lobby, KHP Reading and Reception: 7 pm, Studio Theatre, KHP

    Borderlines (Feminist Press, 2019) was a finalist for the Louise Meriwether first book prize. She finished her novel, Along the Hills, and is working on a nonfiction collection, Broken Blood, and critical monograph, Haudenosaunee Good Mind: Combating Literary Erasure and Genocide of American Indian Presence with Literature Curriculum and Literary Criticism. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Pacific Lutheran University.

  • Major in Economics Minimum of 32 semester hours Required Courses for all Economic Majors 20 semester hours ECON 101, 102, and 499 ECON 301 or 302 STAT 231 or MATH/

    from the chair of the Department of Economics. Economics (ECON) - Undergraduate Courses ECON 101 : Principles of Microeconomics - ES Introduces the study of economic decision making by firms and individuals and analyzes the effect of public policies on these. Economic tools and concepts such as markets, supply and demand, efficiency, and externalities will be applied to contemporary issues such as pollution, international trade, and health care. (4) ECON 102 : Principles of Macroeconomics - ES

  • Friday, May 7th Join the Mathematics Department on Zoom to hear the senior capstone presentations. If you’d like to join the online capstone session, please email Professor Jessica Sklar at

    Adleman (RSA) cryptosystem revolutionized secure data transmission by using public-key encryption. In this talk, we introduce the classically used Caesar cipher and compare it to modern RSA encryption. We then discuss contemporary data security and provide an example encryption and decryption of a message using the RSA cryptosystem. Finally, we discuss the mathematics behind RSA cryptography. 3:00pm – Should Linear Algebra be Taught in High School? Kennedy Robillard In this paper, we will work to