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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 3, 2017)- You know it’s a good class when even the professor goes home shouting: “You’re not going to believe what we learned today!” Joanna Gregson, professor of sociology, says she told her husband just that throughout her January Term course “Policing…
, ethics and discretion, race and policing, and use of force. “I can only speak to these areas to a certain degree,” Premo said, “so having someone who works directly in that specialty area gives the students an opportunity to ask questions to someone currently working in that area.” The roughly 20 students enrolled in the class claimed a variety of majors — including those outside sociology — such as communication, computer science, psychology and music. Mitch Perantie ’19, who intends to major in
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When Hilde Bjørhovde returned to Norway, fresh out of PLU’s journalism program, her home nation had one television station.
covers arts, cultural affairs and more at Aftenposten, a national newspaper she says is innovating in the world of multimedia journalism. “Aftenposten is leading Europe in making people pay for digital news,” she said. “We have many platforms. We have made a big transition.” And it’s an approach that’s working, counter to the narrative in many newsrooms across America. “We’re managing to get people to subscribe to our digital content,” Bjørhovde said, noting that online subscriptions recently
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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
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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…
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
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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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“First, Do No Harm: Medical Science, Ethics and the Holocaust” Conference Schedule Free and Open to the Public. You are welcome to attend any of the lectures, please join us! RegistrationWednesday, October 24thThursday, October 25thFriday, October 26thWednesday, October 24th Opening Remarks – Acting President Allan Belton 7:00 p.m. - Video: “Caring Corrupted: The Killing Nurses of the Third Reich” (Chris Knutzen Hall, AUC 214)``Lessons From Nazi Germany for Today’s Healthcare Providers``Video
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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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Established in 2022 through a gift from David and Lorilie Steen, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for
goal was to accentuate the significance of salmon, while also encapsulating community and collaboration—central themes that resonate with the event’s overarching narrative.”2024 SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE 1:45PM Exploring Trust4:00PM Radical Relationships5:00PM Community Dinner7:00PM Keynote Panel1:45PM Exploring Trust DJS Lounge Check In: Exploring Trust 1:45PM, DJS Lounge (AUC 140) Check in with your community. Check in with your DJS learning and engagement. At this DJS Lounge Check In we will explore
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For two decades, the Makah people have welcomed PLU students to Neah Bay to learn about the tribe’s culture and history.
gallery is filled with artifacts representing spring, summer, fall and winter. Building the structure and the narrative was the easy part, Arnold said. Writing the copy to describe all the artifacts was most challenging. The years-long process resulted from creative tension between academics and the Makah people, who wanted to share their history in their own words. “This is our people’s museum,” Arnold said. “Out of Ozette came all this evidence that verified what our elders were telling us
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Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund , a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However,…
in this interview is Start with Why, by Simon Sinek (Penguin Books, 2011). The Innovation Studies courses mentioned here are Hist 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society and Inov 350: Innovation Seminar, offered each year at PLU. For more about the Innovation Studies program, visit plu.edu/innovation-studies. Read Previous Tacoma-area Conference for Innovation Students Read Next May 2021 Graduates LATEST POSTS Heven Ambachew ’24 combines her passions and experiences to design major in innovation
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