March 2022

The Dean's Memo is published the second full week of the month

Sept.-Dec. & Feb.-Jun.

Next Deadline

March 28

Send your updates at any time to Karen Bystrom

Message from the Dean

Hello, everyone,

Impermanence surrounds us, yet we move on together, supporting our students and each other in our mission. We are wrapping up a quarter that has involved as many variations in pandemic conditions, safety guidelines and course modality as the past two years put together. From an unexpected full month of virtual learning to the first in-person choir concert since December 2019, I couldn’t be prouder of the way you have all worked to support each other and our students.

We are looking ahead with optimism to a more regular, in-person, mask-optional Spring Quarter, ready respond to conditions as needed. Please take a look at the accomplishments of your fellow community members and the events that are ahead in the coming weeks and thank you again for continuing through the challenges.

Shared Governance

David V. Powers, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle University

Faculty

John H. Armstrong, PhD, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and two co-authors published an article in the journal Conservation Science and Practice. From an analysis of 202,900 journal articles, they identify a disciplinary divide in how the environmental impacts of urbanization are presented in ecology and urban planning journals. Dr. Armstrong and his co-authors discuss how interdisciplinary collaborations may provide a path to reconcile the different perspectives and boost sustainability.

John C. Bean, PhD, Emeritus Professor, English, recently published the 3rd edition of Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (Jossey-Bass, 2021).  For this edition, John invited a younger scholar in writing across the curriculum (Dan Melzer of University of California, Davis) to serve as co-author.  According to ResearchGate, the first two editions of Engaging Ideas have received more 900 citations in the scholarly literature.  According to the director of the campus writing and speaking program at North Carolina State University (Chris Anson), “More than any single text, Engaging Ideas has had a profound and lasting influence on the writing-across-the-curriculum movement in the U.S. and around the world.”

This third edition continues to include many assignment examples from Seattle University faculty.   In the preface to this edition, John explains how his book grew out of Seattle University culture in the late 1980s during the transition to a new Core Curriculum.  John would like to share the following acknowledgement from his preface:

“I offer a special thanks to the Seattle University teaching community during the years 1988–1993, when I wrote the precursor to Engaging Ideas as an in-house book for Seattle University’s new core curriculum using examples from more than forty Seattle U faculty. As a Jesuit institution, Seattle University created a new core curriculum that reflected the Jesuit commitment to inquiry and debate along with a passionate belief that rhetoric, as eloquentia perfecta, should serve the common good. These beliefs, combined with the student-centered ethic of cura personalis (care for the whole person) and mission commitment to social justice, created a teaching environment where faculty could develop and share the pedagogical practices that eventually emerged in Engaging Ideas. That remarkable Seattle U community discovered modern ways to enact the principle of active learning aimed at the growth of persons revealed in St. Ignatius’s 1583 Ratio Studiorum, the originating “plan of studies” for Jesuit education. It took a village to write Engaging Ideas.”

Kathryn L. Bollich-Zeigler, PhD, Assistant Professor, Psychology, presented research titled “When Informants Respond: Target Personality Predictors of Informant Report Response Rates” at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2022 Annual Convention.

Caitlin Carlson, PhD, Associate Professor, Communication and Media, spoke about her book, “Hate Speech,” at the Holocaust Museum Houston in February, in correlation with their exhibition, “Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech.”

Serena Cosgrove, PhD, Associate Professor, International Studies, and her co-author, Dr. Ana Marina Tzul Tzul, are happy to share the news that their chapter about Latin America (chapter 7) as well as an organizational profile about a Guatemalan NGO fighting gender violence have been published in the Open Access book, Gendered Lives: Global Issues.  Published by the State University of New York (SUNY) Press and endorsed by the American Anthropological Association, this book can be downloaded for free.

Elizabeth Dale, PhD, Associate Professor, Nonprofit Leadership, was interviewed by The Conversation for the discussion, "The 50 biggest US donors gave or pledged nearly $28 billion in 2021 – Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates account for $15 billion of that total." The article appeared in a number of other publications.

Christie Eppler, PhD, LMFT, Program Director and Professor, Couples and Family Therapy, is a recipient of the Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture's 2022-2023 Faculty Research Fellowships. She and Dr. Jeanette Rodriguez will present “The Transparent Leader” at the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy’s Leadership Symposium on March 31.

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, PhD, Professor, Modern Languages and Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies, will speak at “A Conversation about DEI and Anti-Racist Teaching,” on April 5 at Syracuse University. Last fall, she participated in GRITO de POESÍA! A Chicanx Celebration of Culture and Life," celebrating the publication of Chicanx & Latinx poets spanning 100 years (1920-2020) with a live reading on Mexican Independence Day. Watch the video here.

Brittany Heintz Walters, PhD, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, and Erica Rauff, PhD, were awarded a grant from The Dana Foundation for their project, “Modeling the Mind: Using 3D Printing to Understand the Brain and its Responses to Exercise.” Taking place during 2022 Brain Week in March, Heintz Walters and Erica Rauff, PhD, Assistant Professor, Program Director, Graduate Studies have developed a series of innovative activities for high school and university students and the general public that will include 3D printing of brain models, a live interview and podcast and social media campaign. Information about these events will be posted on the Kinesiology Department's social media pages and the public can register to attend the podcast for free here.

Jacqueline Helfgott, PhD, Professor, Criminal Justice and Director, Crime & Justice Research Center, shares a lot of news.

Publications:

  • Helfgott, J.B. & Wallenborn, J. (2022). History of Forensic Psychology. In Garofolo, C. & Sitsema, J.J.  (Eds.)  Clinical Forensic Psychology: Introductory Perspectives on Offending. Palgrave MacMillan. Co-author Joslyn Wallenborn is a MACJ student employed at the WA State Attorney General’s Office and this is her first publication.
  • Helfgott, J.B., Hickman, M.J., Strah, B.M., Atherley, L.T., Kosson, D.S., & Dorsher, E. (2022). The Relationship between Personality Traits and the Effectiveness of Guardian Law Enforcement Training, Journal of Forensic Psychology Research and Practice.  Co-authored with Dr. Matthew Hickman, Chair, Criminology, Forensics, and Criminology, David Kosson, and three alums of our MACJ program, Loren Atherley, currently in the PhD program at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge;  Dr. Beck Strah. now a professor of criminology/criminal justice at Roger Williams University; and Emily Dorsher, a Crime Analyst at the Everett, WA Police Department.

Media Interview: King 5 News- February 7, 2022 (Reporter: Natalie Swaby). FBI is working to recruit more diverse applicants.

2022 WSC Conference: Two faculty members, five students, and one alum attend the Western Society of Criminology Conference in Honolulu, HI Feb 2-6. Here are the papers presented

Audrey Hudgins, EdD, Clinical Associate Professor, Matteo Ricci Institute, moderated a panel with the authors of Lives in Containment / Vidas en contención: privación de la libertad y violaciones a derechos humanos en estaciones migratorias de Puebla y Tlaxcala, 2020-2021, a report that reveals the results of on-site monitoring and ongoing academic research conducted by the Migratory Affairs Area of the Ignacio Ellacuría, S.J. Institute of Human Rights in collaboration with the Department of Social Sciences of the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla (UIP). The panel served as a centerpiece of UIP’s 2022 Semana de Investigación.

Claire LeBeau, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychology, has a co-authored article with Kaleb Sinclair, 2021 MAP graduate now live on Middle Voices. The issue includean MP3 recording an improvsation of the Fire Fable that her mom, Dr. Ann Labounsky recorded and a Memorium to our late Dr. George Kunz who, with Dr. Steen Halling, and Dr. Lane Gerber, started our MAP program 40 years ago. Our 40th Anniversary celebration with alumni will be held May 15 this year.  

Kira Mauseth, PhD, Senior Instructor, Psychology, was interviewed by the Seattle Times for "After 2 years of COVID in Seattle area, do we dare hope for ‘normal’?" In her role of co-lead for the Washington State Department of Health Behavioral Strike Team, she will travel with colleagues to southeastern Poland to provide trauma-informed behavioral health training to hundreds of volunteers. Learn more here.

Sean McDowell, PhD, Associate Professor, English just published three poems—“Perfume Bottles,” “Arts of the Book,” and “Lecture Upon a Pigeon”—in the Spring 2022 issue of The High Window, a quarterly review of poetry published in England. 

In addition, his book Metaphysical Shadows: The Persistence of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell in Contemporary Poetry has just been published by Lexington Books, an academic imprint of The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group. To commemorate the centenary of Herbert J. C. Grierson’s landmark edition Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century: Donne To Butler (1921), Metaphysical Shadows examines the ways in which the poetry of John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and Andrew Marvell continues to speak to working poets today. Modern Anglophone poets, from T. S. Eliot and Archibald MacLeish in the 1920s and 1930s to Seamus Heaney, Maureen Boyle, Alfred Corn, Anne Cluysenaar, Kimberly Johnson, and Jericho Brown in the twenty-first century, have found in the work of John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, and Andrew Marvell a strikingly modern intellectualism, an emotional intensity, and a verbal richness that have inspired their own poems. Traces of this inspiration appear in echoes, allusions, direct responses, and similarities in approach and method as poets create new work in their own distinct voices. Such contemporary engagements furnish us with cues for how literary studies might approach the literature of the past without sacrificing it in the name of critique. They also demonstrate the continuing relevance of seventeenth-century English metaphysical poetry in the twenty-first century. The poems of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell still have the power to cast shadows.

Susan Meyers, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of English and Director, Creative Writing Program, co-authored “Whose WPA? Collaborative Transnational Development of Writing Programs,” with her colleague Dr. Lourdes Zambrano Caudillo at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and it was  published in Civic Engagement in Global Contexts: International Education, Community Partnerships, and Higher Education. Her creative work has been nominated for both a 2022 Pushcart Prize and an award from the 2022 Best American Science and Nature Writing series.

Christopher Paul, PhD, Professor, Communication, was a guest on the Ethics and Video Games Podcast for "The Problem with Meritocracy in Video Games." It is available on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube.

Erica Rauff, PhD, Assistant Professor, Program Director, Graduate Studies, provides news from the Kinesiology Department, who conducted focus groups with Seattle University coaches to understand their needs and perspectives for using data science in athletics. The results of this study have been published in a journal article titled: "Using Sport Science Data in Collegiate Athletics: Coaches' Perspectives" in the International Journal of Sport Science & Coaching authored by Dr. Rauff, Dr. Sarah Shultz, Dr. Doug Berninger, Sean Machak and graduate student Augustine Herman.

Stephen Rice, PhD, Associate Professor, Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics, and Michael D. Maltz's co-edited volume, Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork, (Springer, 2018) was reviewed by Ana Ivasiuc (Phillips University Marburg) n the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. Read the review here.

Carmen Rivera, MA, Criminal Justice, Criminology & Forensics, was interviewed for the article, “Appropriate use of force for law enforcement debated,” which appeared in a number of publications.

Jeannette Rodriguez, PhD, Professor: Theology and Religious Studies and Couple and Family Therapy, and Director, Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, wrote a chapter for the upcoming book "Women Engaging the Catholic Tradition: Solidarity Toward the Common Good" (Paulist Press, June 7, 2022). Dr. Rodriguez’s chapter is titled “Women’s Liberating Praxis of Nonviolent Leadership for Social Justice: An Emerging Contribution to Catholic Social Thought.” The book project is a collaboration between six women scholars, who from their various social locations contribute to the body of Catholic Social Teaching. Former ICTC Director Dr. Catherine Punsalan-Manlimos also contributed to the project, writing the chapter “Memory Matters: Immigration Rhetoric in CST and Public Discourse.”

She and Sharon Callahan, EdD, Professor Emerita, School of Theology and Ministry, have had their article “Gospel Leadership Among Roman Catholic Women” accepted for the Journal of Religious Leadership’s Spring 2022 edition.  In 2002 two Roman Catholic male bishops ordained seven women on the Danube River. Since then over 350 women have been ordained. This article describes the leadership these women offer their faith, local, and institutional communities. Grounded in a deep spirituality, they choose to disobey Church Law and Tradition while remaining culturally Catholic. Outlining the spiritualities these women embody, the article then explores their contribution within the four ministries of Koinonia, Leiturgia, Kerygma, and Diakonia. Quoting the over 40 women priests we interviewed and studied, the article next focusses on their ecumenical and catholic nature. The conclusion highlights their prophetic contribution to the institutional church and the People of God.

Kirsten Moana Thompson, PhD, Professor and Director, Film Studies, was interviewed for “The Historical Epic Film” Hekayat Al Cinema (Tales of Cinema), February 1 2022.

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Alumni

Derrick Belgarde, BA, Public Affairs, 2003, MPA, 2015, and Executive Director of Chief Seattle Club, was featured on Crosscut in “Chief Seattle Club housing project rooted in Indigenous culture.”

Colina Bruce, MNPL, ’15, opened her new business, Noir Lux Candle Bar in Seattle’s Belltown. Read the Seattle Met story.

Dorothy Cordova, BA, Sociology, ‘53 and her late husband, Fred Cordova, BA, Sociology ‘52, met at SU. She is featured in the South Seattle Emerald in “Dr. Dorothy Cordova Celebrates 90 Years of Building Beloved Community In Seattle.

Gregory Davis, BA, Social Sciences, ’82 and Shawn Richard-Davis, BA, Criminal Justice, ’83, are another couple who met at SU. They wrote an opinion column for the South Seattle Emerald, “Opinion: Being Together So Long.

Luis Gamez, BA, Humanities for Teaching, minor in Spanish, '08, and former SU soccer player, developed a hobby during the pandemic, which took off as a business, Mini Footballer. Read about how his custom images have engaged fans and players.

Katie Hultquist, MNPL, ’02, published an op-ed, "MacKenzie Scott’s Investment in the Global Queer and Transgender Movement Is a Game Changer” in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. (May require subscription.)

Terry Novak, MFA in Arts Leadership, ’12, Executive Director of Photographic Center Northwest, was interviewed for “An owner and an ‘arts anchor," Photographic Center Northwest will be part of new Focus on 12th Apartments” on the Capitol Hill Seattle Blog.

Kevin Vortmann, MFA in Arts Leadership, ‘21, was hired as Executive Director of the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra.

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Students

Congratulations to the Seattle University Ethics Bowl team, Marie-Therese Chahrouri, Sofia McMillan, Anthony Verdugo, Andru Zodrow, who advanced to the semi-finals this year. They defeated Stanford and narrowly lost to the University of Chicago.

Ha'aheo Auwae-Dekker, Film Studies, had a film entitled "Malihini" in the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. The film (which was made in an SU Social Justice Filmmaking course) was showcased as a "Centerpiece documentary" at the festival. Learn more about the film hereWatch the trailer. They were also interviewed by the South Seattle Emerald about the film in "Seattle Asian American Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary."

Mazzy Eckel, Political Science, was named Miss Washington. Read The Spectator story.

Riley Grigsby, Jr., Communication and Media, was featured in the Seattle Times in “Al Grigsby and son Riley helping Seattle U men’s basketball team to best season in decades.

Catholics, Colleges and Collective Bargaining,” an article by Spectator reporters Myrea Mora and Andru Zodrow was highlighted in “Links: The Supreme Court nominee; partisan redistricting; unionizing at Seattle U” in the National Catholic Reporter

Joslyn K. Wallenborn, MACJ candidate, successfully defended her graduate thesis entitled, “Race and Psychopathy:  Literature Review and Case Study of Serial Killer George Russell.” 

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Announcements

Seattle U Magazine

Check out the latest issue, which includes features on Kinesiology's Mobile Lab, student body president Marrakech Maxwell, Public Affairs and Environmental Studies major, and SU basketball player Aaron Nettles, Communication and Media, '21.

My Professional Life in Another Language: Modern Languages and Cultures

On February 24 alumni shared with current students and the community at large how learning a second language contributed to their personal growth, helped build their intercultural proficiency, and opened unexpected doors that propelled and enriched their careers. (We are having technical difficulties with posting it and will share it as soon as it is available.)

The panelists were Annie Jamison who graduated from SU in 2020 with a double major in French and International Studies and is currently a teacher and translator working in Marseille. Arabic alum, Colleen Cronnelly, is a Legal Education Coordinator at the Law and Education Empowerment Project. Jennifer Chan, our Japanese alum, is currently working at Seattle University’s Education Abroad Office. Francesca Loo, Business major, Chinese minor, is General Manager at Doe Beauty working with vendors in China and Taiwan. Last but not least, our alumni from Spanish were Anarose Reador-Helford, Staff Attorney, Removal Defense Unit at Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and Tiffany Rodríguez, Principal of Northshore Middle School.

ICTC announces 2022-23 Research Fellows

The Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022-2023 Faculty Research Fellowships. These grants encourage and support faculty who wish to incorporate the Catholic Jesuit intellectual and cultural tradition into their academic repertoire.

  • Amelia Seraphia Derr, MSW, PhD, Interim Director, Bachelor of Social Work Program, Associate Professor: “Educating for Self and Community Care: Sustaining Students in their Social Justice Work”
  • Christie Eppler, PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy, Professor and Program Director: “Narratives of Spirituality and Embodied Systemic Resilience"

Steinbrueck-Thonn Award for Pike Place Market Research

The Friends of the Market (FOM) has recently initiated a new academic research award available to university and college students or recent graduates. The Steinbrueck-Thonn Award is intended to encourage a broad range of cross-disciplinary and community-engaged scholarship related to the Pike Place Market; research that will serve as a catalyst for greater understanding and appreciation for this treasured public resource. The Friends of the Market Board of Directors has committed to fund a pilot program that will kick off as of March 1, 2022. The 2022 program uses a straightforward and simple application format and submittal process. The deadline for all submissions is May 2 (11:59pm Pacific). The Friends look forward to sharing the products of the 2022 award via various public formats and/or programs in late 2022 and 2023.  More information and the Call for Applications are available here.

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Pathways to Professional Formation

LinkUp - Last call to encourage students to sign up

April 6, Students: 4-6 p.m., Mentors: 4:30-6 p.m.
Student Center, 1st Floor

As of last Friday, we had 56 undergraduate students, nine undergraduate students, and 36 mentors registered.

Please encourage your students to attend this casual networking event and you can let them know they can "come as you are straight from class." Students talk with alumni and friends of SU who work in a wide range of industries and positions and learn from the perspective of others who have similar degrees to theirs. This event is appropriate for students in all class levels and programs. Registration is available here.

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Recruitment and Retention

Admitted Student Day Events April 3 and 9: Response Needed by March 25

Admitted Student Days return in-person on Sunday, April 3 and Saturday, April 9.  Each college is hosting an academic open house from 10 to 11:30 a.m. The A&S academic open house will take place in Casey and other locations across campus (finalized locations will be shared with departmental representatives).

Faculty and current student representatives will meet admitted students and their families, address questions, and showcase their majors and minors in a drop-in, open house format. Students and their families are encouraged to meet with the departments/programs that interest them the most for the first 40 minutes and then they will have a chance to visit other colleges. Dean David Powers and Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs Kate Elias will briefly meet with them in the Redhawk Center to explain our format before the first waves of students and their families are released.

By March 25, send the names of the faculty and students who will represent your department at each ASD event to Kate by email.

Prospective students and their families very much enjoy speaking with current students, and she has notified Student Executive Council members and asked them to be present. If your SEC rep is not available, let’s work together to locate other students from your department who are available.

Thank you for supporting our recruitment efforts and let Kate know if you have questions.

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Funding Opportunities

Terra Foundation for American Art – April 1, 2022 deadline

Award Amount: $10,000 - $25,000. The Terra Foundation supports convenings worldwide that question and broaden definitions of American art. Grant funding is available for programs that foster exchange and collaboration, such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia. Programs should advance innovative and experimental research and professional practice in American art and address critical issues facing the field.

William T. Grant Foundation - May 4 and August 3, 2022 deadlines

Award Amount: $25,000 - $600,000 (depending on program) The Research Grants on Reducing Inequality program funds research studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people ages 5-25 in the United States, along dimensions of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins. program supports studies to build, test, and increase understanding of responses to inequality in youth outcomes.  The Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence program supports studies about how to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

NEH Fellowship Program - April 13, 2022 deadline 

NEH Fellowships are competitive, 6 to 12-month awards granted to individual scholars pursuing projects that embody exceptional research, rigorous analysis, and clear writing.  Applications must clearly articulate a project’s value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both.  Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research.  Projects may be at any stage of development.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Digital Publication – April 20, 2022 deadline

Award Amount: up to $60,000. This program supports individual scholars pursuing interpretive research projects that require digital expression and digital publication. To be considered under this opportunity, an applicant’s plans for digital publication must be integral to the project’s research goals. The project must be conceived as digital because the research topics being addressed and methods applied demand presentation beyond traditional print publication. Stand-alone databases, documentary films, podcasts, and other projects that lack an explicit interpretive argument are not eligible. Projects may be at any stage of development.

More funding opportunities here.

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Of Gifts and Gratitude

Seattle U Gives results coming!

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Events

Snake Pit by Advanced Studio Art
Through March 31, Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Vachon Gallery, Fine Arts Building
In the annual Advanced Studio Art exhibition, Visual Arts students present a collection of their most recent work executed within the Advanced Studio Course.  Students collectively curate the exhibition under the mentorship of Associate Professor Francisco Guerrero. Featured students include: Henry Geary, Kiera Kenny, Daniel, Klosowski, Olivia Newcomb, Chloe Rollens and Sarita Darlington Winey. More information here.

Author Voices with Sonora Jha
March 15, 7:30 p.m.
Online
In honor of Women's History Month, join a discussion with Sonora Jha, author of How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity and the Making of My Family. Seattle University professor Sharon A. Suh, author of Occupy this Body: a Buddhist Memoir, will moderate. Sponsored by the King County Library System Foundation and part of the Author Voices series. Register for free here.

Laziness Does Not Exist: A Conversation with Dr. Devon Price
March 17, noon
Online
In Laziness Does Not Exist, Dr. Devon Price explores the social and psychological underpinnings of the 'laziness lie' -- a centuries old belief that falsely says our worth is determined by our productivity, our limitations are weaknesses, and no matter how much we do it is never enough. Price traces the roots of this lie in the United States to the legacies of Puritanism, the institution of slavery, industrialization, and our current digital work culture that blurs boundaries between work and life. Using in-depth research, Dr. Price outlines how a hatred of laziness has poisoned almost every aspect of modern life -- from work, to school, to our relationships -- and shaped the framing of social problems such as addiction, homelessness and the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more and register for free to receive the Zoom link.

Redhawk Squawk Podcast: Altitude and Exercise
March 21, noon
Online
Join Dave Ohlson for Kinesiology's latest podcast episode. Register for free here.

LinkUp: An Alumni and Student Mentoring Event  
April 6, Students: 4-6 p.m.; Mentors: 4:30 p.m.
Student Center, 1st Floor
An informal event where Arts & Sciences undergraduate and graduate students meet alumni, discover shared interests, discuss professional plans and ideas, and learn from their experience. Learn more and register here.

Master of Social Work Student Panel
April 7, 5:30 p.m.
Online
Current students from both the Two-Year (generalist and specialized years) and Advanced Standing programs share their perspective about the program. Register here.

Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
April 8, 8:30-4:30 p.m.
Online
Featuring authors from the book “Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution and Imprisonment,” edited by Angela J. Davis, Distinguished Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. The event will include a keynote presentation by Professor Davis with panel presentations by the authors. Learn more and register here. Sponsored by the Seattle University Crime and Justice Research Center and Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Forensics Department. Co-sponsored by the SU School of Law and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Meet the New Seattle Mayor: Where Do We Go From Here?
April 11, 6:30 p.m.
Pigott Auditorium, free
Hear Bruce Harrell, after his first months in office, describe plans for turning the city around. Seattle has been through tough times, no doubt. The new mayor takes a few moments out of his busy City Hall schedule to meet students and constituents and discuss steps to move the city forward. We’re talking about all of it -- public safety, downtown revitalization, housing and overall well-being of the city. Harrell will be interviewed on stage Larry Hubbell, professor, and Joni Balter, journalist, and several students. Presented by Seattle University's Institute of Public Service's "Conversations Series." Register now.

Growing Up Biden by Valerie Biden Owens
April 19, 7 p.m.
Pigott Auditorium
Join Valerie Biden Owens for an in-person event to discuss her new memoir. Tickets: $40. Each paid ticket includes admission to the event and a signed copy of her book. Joe Biden’s younger sister, trusted confidante and lifelong campaign manager, talks about her new memoir with SU's Dr. Jeanette Rodriguez. American Sign Language interpretation provided. Learn more and buy tickets.

Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
May 11-15, various times,
Lee Center for the Arts
Presented by Seattle University Theatre. Directed by Sunam Ellis. Dying tragically on her wedding day, Eurydice is prematurely plunged into the underworld. Reunited with her father there, she struggles to remember her past life and love. Filled with fantastical characters roaming a surreal landscape, this contemporary retelling of the traditional Orpheus myth, recenters the hero's journey on the heroine, in a touching, darkly comic examination of loss and love. More information here.

Seattle University Choirs Spring Concert
May 20, 8 p.m.
St. Joseph Parish, 18th & Aloha, Capitol Hill
Follow the choirs on social media to stay informed about upcoming events. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.

Commencement 2022
June 12
Climate Pledge Arena
Information here.

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College and Academic Calendar

College of Arts and Sciences: Save the Dates

  • June 3, All College Day
  • June 10, Graduating Student Award Ceremony

Times and details to come.

Academic Calendar

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Graduate Program Information Sessions and Open Houses