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, presented at the prestigious 2014 Race & Pedagogy National Conference in Tacoma Sept. 25-27, among more than 2,000 local, regional, national and international participants (including a large contingent from Pacific Lutheran University). Chaired by Jenny M. James, PLU Assistant Professor of English, and including Michael Benveniste, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, the panel in which Davidson participated reconsidered the legacy of civil rights in the university literature
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undergraduate. “I didn’t really know what I wanted to study. Philosophy was something I had always interacted with but didn’t really have a name for. Then I took this philosophy class and it was like oh, this is what I have been interested in.” Dr. Arnold says, “Broadly speaking, all areas of the academy and education have elements of philosophy to them. You could do the philosophy of just about anything: physics, religion, literature etc. I don’t think philosophy is done only in its department. The way it
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the idea for the book while they were doing research together at the Folger Shakespeare Library a few years ago. “We were doing some research into handwriting and paleography, but we realized that we both had an interest in consciousness and what it meant to be awake and what it meant to be asleep, and the philosophical implications of that, as they manifested in literature.” Professor Nancy Simpson-Younger Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance CoEdited by Nancy
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and African American Studies program at Loyola University Maryland, while contributing courses to its gender studies program. I also participate in relevant student organizations addressing LGBT rights, sexual assault, and other important concerns. My feminist literature courses continue to be my most intellectually rewarding. In fact, when I interviewed for my job at Loyola, I pitched my dream course: a study of “dead women talking.” From Madeline Usher to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, these strange
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stimulate creativity and problem-solving abilities through the use of modern biochemical techniques. Prerequisite: CHEM 403. (3) CHEM 410 : Introduction to Research An introduction to laboratory research techniques, use of the chemical literature, including computerized literature searching, research proposal, and report writing. Students develop an independent chemical research problem chosen in consultation with a member of the chemistry faculty. Students attend seminars as part of the course
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traditional carols heard in Conrad Susa’s A Christmas Garland medley; Ding Dong! Merrily on High, arranged by Mack Wilberg; Angels We Have Heard On High, arranged by Gabriel Dumitrescu; and the Swedish favorite, Wonderful Peace, by Gustav Nordqvist. Important historical composers Sergei Rachmaninoff and Herbert Howells are represented, as is popular British composer John Rutter. The album features beautiful new works by PLU choral faculty member Brian Galante (Ave Maria and In The Bleak Midwinter), a
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students sometimes worry that their families don’t understand what they’re doing at college. “That was my experience,” said Ellard-Ivey, who attended University College Dublin for her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in botany and earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of British Columbia. One experience she doesn’t have in common with her American students is their financial struggles. Ellard-Ivey lived at home while she attended college in Dublin with a government grant that paid for
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of the program of the Wang Foundation on Chinese college students’ career choice and views towards life in the article titled, “China Boosts Rural Education”. In the same year, the Poverty Alleviation Office of Education of Tsinghua University published a Summary of the Wang Foundation’s work in Service Learning and Poverty Alleviation for which the British prediction guru and philanthropist James Martin wrote the preface giving high praise to Dr. Wang and the contributions he has made to poverty
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her first-generation students sometimes worry that their families don’t understand what they’re doing at college. “That was my experience,” said Ellard-Ivey, who attended University College Dublin for her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in botany and earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of British Columbia. One experience she doesn’t have in common with her American students is their financial struggles. Ellard-Ivey lived at home while she attended college in Dublin with a
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: Conference ScheduleNatalie MayerModerator: Natalie Mayer Conference ScheduleKirsten ChristensenModerator: Kirsten M. Christensen, Professor of German, PLU Bio: Kirsten M. Christensen earned her Ph.D. in Germanic Studies, with an emphasis on medieval and early modern literature and culture, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. Her research has focused on writings by medieval women mystics. In particular, she explores the often fraught relationships between women mystics and their male
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