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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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The Molecules Meet Materials REU site at the University of South Dakota will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during summers 2022-2024. In this program, participants pursue collaborative research projects, with a focus on chemistry at interfaces in which molecular processes occur…
microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and computational methods to study materials and molecules at interfaces. All students will also take part in a professional development and ethics training program, with a focus on science communication and preparation for graduate school or industrial careers. Through independent research projects and the workshop and seminar series, this site seeks to broaden the participation in STEM. Preference will be given to applications received by March 1st. We strongly encourage
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When picking a Common Reading book, we consider how the book addresses PLU's commitments to diversity, justice, sustainability, and global education.
emerging nature of biomedical ethics. This is all wrapped around the context of personal discovery by the author and a complex family story. What is the What, Dave EggersFaculty Comment: Really informative and an interesting read. It meets a lot of criteria about our PLU priorities of social justice and care for people and communities throughout the world. I believe that it has been a common read at other universities as well. Education is also a theme in the book. It is taken from not only that of a
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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
de México, and Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica. Also, he was a Jr. Fellow at the Center for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and researcher at Fundación PENT (Argentina).Alessandro MonsuttiHomo Itinerans: An Anthropological Perspective on Global Mobility 9:05 a.m. | March 9 | Regency Room Who: Alessandro Monsutti Title: Head of Anthropology and Sociology Steering Committee, Programme for the Study of Global Migration Graduate Institute of Geneva Bio: Ph.D. in Social
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Chair’s report on scholarships and activities By Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Bob Ericksen received several notable invitations this year, including an opportunity to give the annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture at the University of Vermont. Hilberg spent his entire career…
scholarship. These talks, intended to be published as a collection of essays, allowed each speaker to review his or her own place in the field. Bob spoke on “Pastors and Professors: Assessing Complicity and Unfolding Complexity,” drawing upon his recent book, Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany (Cambridge, 2012). Ericksen’s connections with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC continued in 2012. He is Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the
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On a January morning, sixteen PLU students stepped waist deep into the flooded, muddy field of the loʻi, a traditional taro patch, to take part in a practice that once sustained the Hawaiʻian people. Elle Sina Sørensen, a senior majoring in anthropology and global studies…
of Captain Cook and western colonizers, the once prevalent cultivation of kalo dwindled dangerously while Native Hawaiʻians were killed by Western diseases and their land was stolen and repurposed. Sharing Passion through ScholarshipEnvironmental Ethics at Holden Village Read Previous Revisiting the Visiting Writer Series: the 15th Anniversary Edition Read Next Environmental Ethics at Holden Village LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in
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. Most students use OPT after graduation to engage in 12 months of full-time employment. Click here to learn more about OPT eligibility, requirements and the application process!Social Security Number (SSN)Applying for a SSN: A social security number is only issued to those who have a paid job offer on-campus or off-campus. Already found an employer? Fill out the SSN Support Letter Request form. ISS will issue a support letter. With an on-campus employer, get an Employment Offer Letter from Student
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1:45-2:00pm, Rosemary Ireson Evolution of Debris Cover on Emmons Glacier, Mount Rainier, Washington View final poster here 2:00-2:15pm, Calie Rose Plant Life on the Surface of Emmons Glacier, Mount
:45-3:00pm, Greta Schwartz Glacial Response to Heat Waves as Shown in Suspended Sediment Concentration of White River, WA View final poster here 3:00-3:15pm, Tess Ritcey Comparing a Virtual Field Trip to a Traditional Field Trip View final poster here 3:15-3:30pm, Shanelle Gibson Role of a Sediment Structure in Stabilizing a Mountain River After a Volcanic Eruption View final poster hereThursday, May 12th 1:45-2:00pm, Christian Oakley A Tectonic Synthesis of the Straight Creek / Fraser River Fault
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — Oneida Blagg — Pierce College’s first director of equity, diversity and inclusion — says her commitment to those issues started long before she pioneered this new position at the community college. Blagg’s parents raised her to be politically aware,…
university to pursue a Master of Arts in Social Science. “It just seemed to be natural,” she said of her first degree. “I always thought politics were interesting.” During her master’s program, Blagg worked at PLU’s Office of Minority Affairs for three years. There she worked on a grant to direct more students of color and women into STEM in higher education — an experience that set up the trajectory of her career, culminating in her work at Pierce.DJS at PLULearn more about the university's commitment
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On September 18th and 19th, 2019, the Innovation Studies Program co-sponsored the Life Under Drones Symposium , which took place on the PLU campus and featured students, faculty, and an array of national experts on the subject. Life Under Drones was the first of its…
participate in a panel session on September 18 chaired by Dr. Michael Halvorson. Students from Halvorson and Mike Schleeter’s Innovation, Ethics, and Society course attended several sessions, and Innovation Studies hosted a reception the first evening in Ingram Hall. To learn more about the symposium and the scholars who attended, please visit http://www.plu.edu/drones Read Previous Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture Read Next May 2020 Innovation Studies Graduates LATEST POSTS INOV
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