What’s happening at SPU? This is where you’ll find the latest news about research, events, activities, achievements, and milestones in the life of SPU and its people.
Danni Gheleva, associate professor of food and nutrition, was featured on the "Healthier Together" segment of local TV station FOX 13 Seattle. Danni talked about the Mediterranean Diet. Watch the story online.
April 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq. The 2003 Iraq War was a major turning point in changing the ways that Iraqis related to their own government and to their fellow citizens. Paying attention to Iraqis' stories about their lives under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and during the tumultuous two decades that followed his fall sheds light on the forces that can unify or divide a society during periods of crisis and upheaval.
For the annual Weter Lecture, Assistant Professor of History Alissa Walter will talk about stories and perspectives 20 years after the Iraq War. The lecture is Tuesday, April 11, 7–8:30 p.m. in Upper Gwinn Commons and is free, open to the public, and will be livestreamed.
Works by students in Assistant Professor of Art Alison Stigora’s sculpture studio class are now on display in the Ames Library. The exhibit of sculptures, titled “Push and Pull,” will be on view through Thursday, Mar. 16.
Fifth-year senior Vanessa Aniteye, who has combined the attributes of athletics, academics, marriage, and motherhood into a story like perhaps no other in the long, distinguished history of SPU women's track and field, heads to Virginia for this week's NCAA Division II Indoor Championships as the runner to beat in the 800.
Having led the D2 national rankings for all but one week this winter, Aniteye will step to the starting line inside the Virginia Beach Sports Center on Friday afternoon at 1:40 p.m. Pacific time for the preliminary heats. The finals are set for Saturday at 2:10 p.m. Pacific.
Aniteye comes in with the top-seeded time of 2 minutes, 7.53 seconds that the recorded on Feb. 11 in Seattle at the Husky Classic.
She was featured in The Seattle Times on Mar. 10.
The Music Department presents a winter orchestra concert, “By Any Other Name,” on Sunday, March 5, at 3 p.m. in Upper Gwinn. Experience what the SPU Orchestra has been working on this quarter at this FREE concert open to the public and wheelchair accessible. The concert will be livestreamed.
The Falcon men's and women's basketball teams will play in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Tournament in Bellingham, Washington, Mar. 2-4.
The No. 5 women's team (14-12, 9-9 GNAC) will play No. 4 seed Alaska Anchorage at 7:30 p.m. in Carver Gymnasium at Western Washington University on Thursday, Mar. 2. The men's team enters the tournament as the third seed.
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Dr. Christopher Jones ’94 hopes the families in his medical practice never need to ask: “Is my kid sick enough that I should pay for a doctor’s visit?” Medical director of HopeCentral, a nonprofit health center, he and his team have adapted the concept of concierge medicine to a diverse Seattle neighborhood.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Leland Saunders earned a $10,100 Graves Award in Humanities for his research project, “The Structure of Moral Judgement: Philosophical Perspectives.” His research responds to recent arguments that human beings’ concepts of morality are just a quirk of evolution and don't connect to anything deeper.