Physics Team Wins Award for Education Research
Physics faculty members Rachel Scherr, 艾米·罗伯逊, 莱恩斯利, Stamatis Vokos won the 2013 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings Paper Award by the Physics Education Research 社区, part of the American Association of Physics Teachers. 他们的论文, “Content Knowledge for Teaching Energy: An Example From Middle-School Physical Science,” was selected for its quality of research, 可读性, 以及对物理教育的影响. This work was funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
Mezulis and Team Study Teen Depression
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology Amy Mezulis launched research on adolescent depression, 由400美元资助,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental 健康. Mezulis和她的团队, which includes a clinical psychology graduate student and psychology undergraduate students, are working to understand how abnormal emotional, 生理, cognitive responses to stress may predict the development of depression in adolescence.
New Engineering Programs Undergo Accreditation Review
The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the primary accrediting body for university technical education programs, visited SPU in October 2013 to review a new general 工程 major with concentrations in mechanical 工程, appropriate and sustainable 工程. The accrediting decision was announced in July 2014, now all of SPU’s BS 工程 degrees are ABET accredited.
Maier’s Book Included in 诗歌 Collection
In 2013, Professor of English Jennifer Maier’s new book of poems was included in the Pitt 诗歌 Series, one of the largest and best known lists of contemporary American poetry. 现在,现在 is concerned with questions of time and memory, how perceptions are shaped within the continuous meeting of past and future. Maier’s poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including 诗歌, 新字母, Smartish步伐, 《赌博十大靠谱软件》, has been featured on Public Radio International’s “The Writer’s Almanac.”
Wall-Scheffler’s Walk Study Earns International Attention
2013年10月, research by Associate Professor of Biology Cara Wall-Scheffler was published in the public-access journal 《赌博十大靠谱软件》, inspiring headlines in more than 200 media outlets around the world, including 洛杉矶时报， CBS好的赌博软件推荐， Time 杂志等. Her research demonstrated that relationship status influences the walking speeds of men and women, specifically that men slow down if they’re walking with women in whom they’re romantically interested.
Education, Clinical Psychology Accreditation Renewed
2012-13学年, both SPU’s 教育学院 and SPU’s 心理学院，家庭, 社区 had accreditation visits, positive results were announced in 2014. The Washington State Professional Educator Standards Board and Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation re-accredited all 教育学院 programs, the American Psychological Association re-accredited the PhD in Clinical Psychology program. 在每种情况下, the schools were awarded the maximum number of years before another accreditation visit will be required.
Edwards Serves as President of School Counselors
Professor of Counselor Education Cher Edwards served as president of the Washington School Counselors Association during the 2013–14 学术 year. 作为WSCA主席, her leadership priorities were advocacy and awareness, including helping the community to understand the importance of professional school counselors in a K–12 education setting. She will serve as past president of WSCA in 2014–15.
Beers and Nagy Partner With UW in Literacy Study
斯科特啤酒, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, 和比尔·纳吉, 教育学教授, worked with colleagues at the University of Washington on a learning disability research project. 这个项目, which focuses on creating curriculum for students in grades 4–9 with reading disabilities or challenges, 是由一个$8.1 million grant from the National Institute of Child 健康 and Human Development.
Latin Verse by Women Ewald’s Topic for Marston Lecture
On February 4, 2014, Owen Ewald, SPU’s C. May Marston Assistant Professor of Classics, 主持马斯顿讲座, in which he explored Latin verse written by women in a time when literacy among women was rare. The annual lecture is presented by the faculty member appointed to the Marston professorship, named in honor of a scholar whose influence extends back to the earliest years of 西雅图 Pacific.
Saunders Receives Graves Award in Humanities
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Leland Saunders received a $10,100 Arnold L. 和露易丝?. Graves Award in the Humanities to support his research project “The Structure of Moral Judgment: Philosophical Perspectives.” This competitive national award is made biennially to younger faculty members who have submitted evidence of “unusual skill and enthusiasm as teachers and who can show that their projects will enhance their ability in the classroom.”
Layman Explores Atonement in Weter Lecture
Professor of Philosophy Steve Layman delivered the 2014 Winifred E. Weter Faculty Award Lecture for Meritorious Scholarship on April 10, 2014. Titled “Philosophical Reflections on the Atonement,” the lecture addressed the question: “How do Christ’s life, 死亡, resurrection put us right with God?” The annual Weter Lecture provides a public platform from which to espouse the claims of the liberal arts in the Christian university.
“Vision and Call” Grant Awarded to SPU
SPU’s 圣经研究中心 and 神学教育 and 西雅图太平洋神学院 were awarded a “Vision and Call” grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, with funding of $47,520 over two years. 2014年9月开始, the money will fund internships in which seminarians will spiritually mentor undergraduate students, first-year seminarians can explore their vocational call.
Marketing Educators Recognize Karns
Professor of Marketing Gary Karns and Charles Duke, his collaborator from Clemson University, received the 2014 Marketing Educators Association Service Award in recognition of a teaching effectiveness seminar they have offered for many years to new entrants to the field.
Student Plan to 援助 Amputees Wins Competition
At SPU’s eighth annual Social Venture Plan Competition on April 16, 2014, more than half of the participating student teams presented projects focused either on a mobile software application or on needs in 西雅图’s Rainier Valley. However, an SPU student team called 声音的步骤 won the $3,000 Herbert B. Jones Grand Prize with a plan to help amputees in developing nations “step” out of poverty by providing them with high-quality, 负担得起的下肢假肢. More than 75 judges rated the submissions and represented the business, 非营利组织, 学术, 以及专业团体.
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罗伯特W. SPU的保罗·T. Walls Professor of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies and an ordained Free Methodist elder, was the speaker for this year’s Paul T. Walls Lecture in Wesleyan Theology on May 7, 2014. 他的地址, titled “The Book of Revelation in the Present Tense,” explored the truths of Revelation in a contemporary context.
Business Students Compete in Valuation Challenge
Promising finance students from across the U.S. competed in the third annual BVR/SPU Valuation Challenge, an opportunity for students to assess the stand-alone value of a real private company. Students used special appraisal information provided by Business Valuation 资源, LLP (BVR) and were judged by 20 of the nation’s senior valuation experts. In the final round of the competition at SPU on May 9, 2014, the University of Denver took top honors, followed by Portland State University in second place, 好的赌博软件推荐排名第三.
Wall (With Steele) Wins Book Award
The Wesleyan Theological Society presented two SPU faculty members — 罗伯特Wall, the Paul T. Walls Professor of Scripture and Wesleyan Studies, 理查德·斯蒂尔, professor of moral and historical theology — with the 2014 Timothy L. Smith/Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Book Award for Wall’s commentary on the pastoral epistles, 提摩太和提多 (Eerdmans, 2012), to which Steele contributed three historical case studies. ”相结合,该奖项引用道。, “this publication offers a wonderful contribution to biblical studies, 系统神学, 历史研究, 卫斯理的传统, ultimately the Church in ways that bring different disciplines into conversation with one another.”
论文荣誉归沃森
凯文•沃森, assistant professor of historical theology and Wesleyan studies, received the Wesleyan Theological Society 2014 Outstanding Dissertation Award for his Southern Methodist University dissertation on the early Methodist band meeting.
Student Research Highlighted at Erickson Conference
The 12th annual Erickson Undergraduate Research Conference on May 16, 2014, showcased the outstanding research and design of students in the fields of biology, 生物化学, 化学, 计算机科学, 工程, 数学, 和物理. Presentations ranged from single-quarter, classroom-based original research projects to multi-year independent research programs and 工程 design projects.
SPU Student Receives Fulbright Scholarship
今年春天, 麦奇Dooley, a 2014 graduate in political science and women’s studies, was offered a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Turkey. She will work in the city of Eskişehir during the 2014–15 学术 year.