Current Leadership

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Prof. Nila Wiese
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
  • Research focus: My teaching and research are centered on issues related to international business strategy in emerging markets, with a geographic focus on Latin America. My current research is in the areas of innovation in emerging economies, especially innovations that advance social and environmental sustainability; migration and entrepreneurship; and the effects of social and cultural differences on leadership and management practices
  • Hometown: I was born and lived in Honduras for 25 years. After studying and working in the US for a decade, I lived in Japan and Honduras for a few years before joining University of Puget Sound in 2003. I have called Tacoma home for the past twenty years.
  • What I love about Puget Sound: I love the energy, curiosity, and collaborative engagement that allows everyone in the Puget Sound community (students, faculty, and staff) to seek innovative and just solutions to local and global problems.
  • What I would like to learn from students: Their interests and challenges, and how I can best support their college experiences. I would also like to understand what kind of local and global communities they envision and aspire to build through impactful citizenship.

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Faculty

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Prof. Lisa Johnson
School of Business and Leadership

Course: “Local leadership responses to climate change in the United States”

 

This course examines leadership at local levels in response to climate change (e.g., how state and local governments are taking the lead on climate policy; how youth leaders are addressing climate change).

 

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Yu Luo
Prof. Yu Luo
Sociology and Anthropology

Course: “Leading the way in the protection of natural and cultural heritage”

 

This course explores what heritage is and the intrinsically political nature of heritage through examples of World Heritage sites. Students examine specific natural and cultural heritage to reflect on how they matter to the local populations and the global community through questions about identity, ownership, and responsibility.

 

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Alison Paradise
Prof. Alison Paradise
Mathematics and Computer Science

Course: “Solving problems through the application of Graph Theory”

 

In this course, students explore an area of mathematics known as Graph Theory. They use these new skills to help solve common problems (e.g., routing a postal carrier). After learning basic Graph Theory skills and practice their use in applied situations, students work on group projects to develop and present solutions to select problems.

 

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Dan Sherman
Prof. Dan Sherman
Environmental Policy and Decision Making

Course: “How will the U.S. change its energy production and consumption to address the climate crisis?”

 

This course helps students better understand the challenges of the current clean energy transition, while working together on an energy experiment and developing their own strategies to "re-bake" the U.S. energy pie.

 

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