What’s happening at SPU? This is where you’ll find the latest news about research, 事件, 活动, 成就, and milestones in the life of SPU and its people.
今年的 Perkins Lecture series features several 事件 on Tuesday, April 23, including Rev. Sandra Van Opstal as keynote for the annual Perkins Lecture at 7 p.m. 在上格温. The Perkins Center is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2024.
Let me introduce the Korean concept of jeong as a counterpart to the 西雅图 Freeze. Although jeong has no English equivalent, it can be experienced and expressed outside of the Korean context. Jeong captures the tight 人际关系 connection between people. It is the energy that underlies friendships. It can also describe the emotional bond between a parent and child.
After nine years as the president of both Roberts Wesleyan University and Northeastern Seminary near Rochester, 纽约, Dr. Deana L. Porterfield was inaugurated Feb. 23 as the 12th president of 西雅图 Pacific University in its 133-year history and its first female president. In an interview with 光+生命 杂志 a month after her inauguration, she emphasized that 西雅图 Pacific remains faithful to its Christian commitment even as the university attracts students from a variety of backgrounds and connects with its city.
After an extensive nationwide search, Dr. Kathy Lustyk has been named the next vice president for academic affairs and chief academic officer at 西雅图 Pacific University. Lustyk currently serves as vice chancellor and associate chief academic officer at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), 普莱斯考特. She will assume her new role at SPU in the next few months.
Live like an SPU student for a day during Falcon Fridays! This one-day visit includes information sessions about specific academic programs, 金融援助, 和招生. Plus, you'll take a tour of our beautiful campus and enjoy lunch in our award-winning dining hall. 今天就报名!!
"沉默的天空" is a true story of 19th century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, who explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries. With music and math bursting forth onstage, Henrietta and her female peers change the way we understand both the heavens and the Earth. It is the poignant tale of a woman’s dedication to the stars, and the human touch that makes life under the vast sky beautiful and timeless.
韩(한), Nunchi(눈치), and jeong (정) are Korean constructs that profoundly shape Korean people’s lives. How might the understanding of these constructs offer lessons that generalize beyond the Korean setting, as we pursue intrapersonal, 人际关系, and communal flourishing?
In the annual Winifred E. Weter Faculty Award Lecture for Meritorious Scholarship, Professor of Psychology Paul Youngbin Kim will explore the features of these constructs, drawing from his academic field of psychology but also Korean media and arts. He will articulate the strengths and pitfalls associated with han, jeong, and nunchi. Whenever relevant, Prof. Kim will describe how the three constructs can be reimagined for faithful Christian living.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
7 p.m.
Upper Gwinn Commons
本·哈特利, associate professor of mission and world Christianity, recently received a $6,000 Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society. He will use the grant to defray the costs of archival trips to Columbia University, 耶鲁大学, and the University of Minnesota to complete research for a biography of Nobel Peace Prize laureate John R. 莫特(1865 - 1955).
乔安的原因, executive director of the Center for 信仰ful Business, received a Fulbright Specialist Program Award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. She will complete a project at The Entrepreneurship Hub in Trinidad and Tobago that aims to exchange knowledge and establish partnerships benefiting participants, 机构, and communities both in the U.S. and overseas through a variety of educational and training 活动 within business administration.
Professor Emeritus of Educational Ministry Ed Smyth died at his home in Lexington, 肯塔基州, 3月9日, 2024, after a lengthy illness. Ed came to SPU in 1976 and taught educational ministry (Christian education) until 1985, and then again from 2000 to 2016, 当他退休时. He was the director of Church Relations at SPU from 1985 to 1992 and served in ministry positions outside of SPU from 1992 to 2000.
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 西雅图 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.