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involving students in the educational process when dedicating the remaining funds to sustainability projects. PLU’s video, conceived and produced entirely on campus, illustrates the new sustainability program through stop-motion photography, colorful felt cutouts and a rhyming narrative. Narrated by Kirsten Kendrick of KPLU, it uses vignettes from Study Away programs around the world—and even locally—to illustrate the impact of travel and carbon mitigation. (Sample line: Students learn about climate

foundation to this balance is a nuanced understanding of business ethics. A welcome emphasis for Melanie Brisbane ‘21, a working student who has been with Boeing for 15 years. “I feel like there has been a strong focus on ethics in all of my classes and a lot of learning about management styles,” Brisbane says. “As a student with a career within a large company I feel like what I learn at PLU is very aligned with the way business is run where I work and also a good example of how things should be run

September 20, 2012 The Reinhold Neibuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Larry Rasmussen gives the keynote address during the Lutheran Perspectives on Political Life. (Photos by Jesse Major ’14) Voices from empty chairs By Chris Albert The human species’ role in today’s global economy is one of using the Earth as a commodity, said Larry Rasmussen. To sustain the Earth, including human life, a shift must occur to an ecological economy, where humans

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

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

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 Heven

span the complex, interdisciplinary facets of materials sustainability, including polymer synthesis from renewable sources, materials with enhanced properties and lifetime, materials to improve utilization of natural resources, reduced energy polymer processes, and biodegradable materials, while gaining the tools to assess the environmental impact of new material development.  In addition to their research project, REU participants will participate in short courses in polymer fundamentals, ethics

studied away in Oxford and Oslo. What stuck with you? I always felt like I grew each time I studied away, not only by being there and looking at all the things but also by making connections with the people there. I learned how to make connections beyond PLU. One of the more interesting things is that I got really into pigeon-watching. How did your experience in Oxford inspire Birders of PLU? My primary tutorial was animal ethics. I joined the Oxford Animal Ethics Society. I took a museum studies

independent study opportunities. You studied away in Oxford and Oslo. What stuck with you? I always felt like I grew each time I studied away, not only by being there and looking at all the things but also by making connections with the people there. I learned how to make connections beyond PLU. One of the more interesting things is that I got really into pigeon-watching. How did your experience in Oxford inspire Birders of PLU? My primary tutorial was animal ethics. I joined the Oxford Animal Ethics

teaching.Even now, as I prepare for a sabbatical, my teaching and work with students is in play as I prepare to start writing a book on farm animals. Years of teaching on the ethics of food in Ethics and the Good Life, teaching on ecofeminism in Women and Philosophy, and teaching Philosophy, Animals, and the Environment will all figure in the position I will present in that book. The fact that I have been thinking and writing in these areas also means that I can expose the students to new and emerging ideas