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Nishi Hongwanji. He enjoys practicing Aikido and spending time with his family and wife Cyndi Yasaki. Cyndi was the minister’s assistant at the Gardena Buddhist Church in California and received her Tokudo in the Summer of 2019.Dr. Samuel TorvendWho: Dr. Samuel Torvend, Professor of the History of Christianity, PLU Bio: Dr. Samuel Torvend teaches courses in the history of early, medieval and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses

. Purposes, advantages, and limitations of standardized and other assessment tools are explored. (2) EDUC 429 : Diversity Responsive Children's Literature Explores diversity responsive children's literature and why these texts are imperative for all readers. Emphasizing identifying, selecting, and evaluating high-quality, diversity responsive books across genres and formats (e.g. novels in verse, graphic novels, print/digital) as well as strategies for advocacy and use in K-6 classrooms. (2) EDUC 438

collaborators Brief overview: In many fields, research is conducted in teams or with a collaborator. This activity will help students learn about important voices within a field, as well as identify their own potential “collaborators” from existing scholarship. Instructors, particularly those in introductory courses, will be able to help students understand why certain voices are important in their field, and how to draw on the expertise of others. This activity can be used in lieu of a literature review

. (4) ANTH 368 : Edible Landscapes: The Foraging Spectrum - ES, GE The course examines foragers in Africa, North America, and Australia. Using classic ethnographic literature, it provides a cultural ecological perspective of foraging societies in a variety of environments. It also examines how foraging studies inform archaeological research and the challenges that these peoples now face in a rapidly changing world. (4) ANTH 370 : The Archaeology of Ancient Empires - ES, GE The origins of

research.  Bachelors of Arts (BA) students present a capstone paper and seminar about a literature research topic.   Each capstone student arranges for a faculty member to be their mentor. Capstone capstone seminars are presented during afternoons of the Chemistry Capstone Celebration Week in late April or early May each year. The Organic Special Projects Laboratory (CHEM 336)The Organic Special Projects Laboratory (CHEM 336) is a by-application-only alternative to the regular Organic II Laboratory

Professor of Philosophy and Literature, Whitman College, Washington Title: “Seeing Things Differently: Community and Theatre in Charlotte Delbo’s ‘Auschwitz and After'” Dee Simon, Baral Family Executive Director, Holocaust Center for Humanity, Seattle, Washington Simon is a second generation survivor. Her mother was interned in Theresienstadt during WWII. 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. – Reconsidering Anne Frank (Regency Room, AUC) For many people, their first encounter with studying about the Holocaust comes

to a field in which the analysis of process and perpetrator often precludes important questions about the victims themselves. About Dr. Patricia Heberer-RiceDr. Heberer Rice is one of the leading scholars on the Nazi Euthanasia murders. She has been based at the Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (former U.S. Holocaust Research Institute) since 1993. Heberer Rice completed her undergraduate degree in Historical Studies and German Language and Literature at Southern Illinois University

committees; and voting behavior. Intensive writing course. Prerequisite: POLS 251. (4) POLS 365 : Race and Ethnic Politics - ES, GE An interdisciplinary examination of the way racial and ethnic conflict shapes and structures American political, social, and economic life focused on the best path toward democratic equality. Discussions center on the literature that examines the integration of disenfranchised ethno-racial groups into in U.S. society, addressing the contemporary implications of changing

(ESCI 498-499) in their final full year. Prerequisite: at least 8 semester hours of 300-level or above courses in earth science. Pass/Fail. (1) ESCI 499 : Capstone: Senior Seminar - SR Culminating experience applying geological methods and theory through original literature or field or laboratory research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, with written and oral presentation of results. Required of all majors in their senior year. Prerequisite: ESCI 498. (4)

full-term courses. Instructors are encouraged to consider obtaining mid-semester feedback. Our colleagues on the Teaching Evaluation Task Force (2013-14) reviewed the literature on best practices for measuring effective teaching, and learned that, “response rates for end of term evaluations increase when a mid-course evaluation is also administered.” Mid-semester feedback is consistent with the Task Force’s recommendation for formative assessment, as it “can foster our professional development as