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memory of these events alive and helps students understand the importance of speaking out against intolerance and the difference one person can make. Sponsored in part by the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, these sessions will give teachers some tools and best practices to effectively place the Holocaust in its historical context and teach the critical lessons we need to apply to today’s world. A Holocaust survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto, George Elbaum, will speak Friday
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memory of these events alive and helps students understand the importance of speaking out against intolerance and the difference one person can make. Sponsored in part by the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, these sessions will give teachers some tools and best practices to effectively place the Holocaust in its historical context and teach the critical lessons we need to apply to today’s world. A Holocaust survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto, George Elbaum, will speak Friday
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As one of the annual priorities for the 2023-24 academic year, President’s Council seeks to align available resources in order to in to invest in individual and community well-being. The critical first step was to collect perspectives from faculty and staff in a survey. As a reminder, this survey was designed to align with the U.S. Surgeon General’s Framework for Workplace Mental Health and Well-being. Based on this research, the survey will incorporate five different areas of
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immediate preference and comfort; it’s essential for writers to engage deeply with the nuances of language, voice, and style and to develop a sensitivity and understanding toward the formal and technical aspects of their craft. By emphasizing aesthetic values in the workshop, I aim to equip my students with the tools and critical frameworks they need to both understand and create work that is personally meaningful and artistically significant.
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opportunity to work directly with NSA Mathematicians on mission-critical problems and experience the excitement of the NSA mathematics community. While next summer is a ways away, we do encourage early applications as every participant must obtain a security clearance. Completed applications must be submitted by Oct. 15, 2021. Please note that U.S. citizenship is required. DSP/CASASP ad: https://apply.intelligencecareers.gov/job-description/1161695 GMP ad: https://apply.intelligencecareers.gov/job
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challenges for Smith and Taiwo will be to subdue students who are super-fans of the music. “I want students to take pop culture seriously as political texts,” Smith said. “Really thinking about issues of identity and power within our pop culture texts is a significant skill for students to have. Will it get you a job? Maybe not, but it will leave you a more informed and aware citizen.” Students in Daniel Heath's course titled "How to Build a Starship" conduct an experiment involving skateboards and
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Courses PSYC 101 : Introduction to Psychology - ES An introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics include learning, memory, perception, thinking, development, emotion, personality, mental illness, and social behavior. (4) PSYC 242 : Advanced Statistics and Research Design A continuation of Statistics 232 and accompanying lab taught by members of the psychology department. Topics include single- and multi-factor experimental designs and analyses of variance
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in my HISP 301 class last semester that were enrolled in the School of Nursing. And I was thinking about the importance of studying narratives, and how important it can be in the field of healthcare. When you talk to a patient, how do they communicate their ailments? Like, how do they tell you what happened? How did they get hurt? What is the reason that they’re here, what happened? What happens, then, is that the patient starts weaving a narrative. “Well I was doing this… and then this happened
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What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? The Wild Hope Center for Vocation is dedicated to developing ethical, educated, thinking leaders. In 2003, PLU received a $2 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc to launch Wild Hope. PLU is one of 95 institutions to receive a grant for this purpose, and has been praised by Lilly Endowment, Inc for its innovative and effective work linking vocation with the university’s educational mission. To continue these programs and to
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Mike Willis's StoryGetting through college isn’t easy, especially as a child of a single-mom. With the help of the PLU community, Mike graduated with honors in 1973. “I went to my state’s largest high school, I knew I wanted a place where people knew me, and I knew them. I get sentimental just thinking about the first call I received from PLU. Three years later when I was about 11 days away from my last day at PLU, I was called into the administrative building, my heart started to pound as I
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