Chad Engelland, philosophy graduate program director and assistant professor of philosophy, was drawn to his discipline by big questions, like what being human means. | “Contemporary culture’s view seemed bleak. It doesn’t account for factors that make up the transcendent human experience,” said Engelland, who pursues these questions in his book “The Way of Philosophy: An Introduction” — his attempt to show people the path in life and faith he was fortunate enough to stumble upon. | WEB EXTRA. Visit udallas.edu/engelland to discover more.
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STORY AS A WAY FORWARD
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“My daughters and I made a home through our shared stories,” said Associate Professor of English Brett Bourbon. “When they were struggling, I’d tell a story. These stories form our moral and cognitive atmosphere, keeping us alive, helping us find ways forward.” In addition to teaching, Bourbon consults on strategy and technology with the Silicon Valley design firm Slanted Light, helping tell the stories of clients that include Nike, Microsoft and Nerdwallet. Next semester, Bourbon will combine his business acumen and love of story to teach a class on storytelling in business and in life.
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THE BIG QUESTIONS
“As a scholar in the beginning of my career, it’s particularly important to introduce my ideas to colleagues through conferences and publications, and the Milligan Fellowship has allowed me to do both,” said the UD Rome Program’s Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art Elizabeth Robinson, Ph.D., the first recipient of the Milligan Faculty Development Fellowship. Robinson’s research focuses on Roman art and archaeology. WEB EXTRA: Dig a little deeper at udallas.edu/robinson.
President Thomas W. Keefe congratulates Professor of Psychology and Human Sciences Scott D. Churchill on being named a 2014 Minnie Stevens Piper Professor.
▶ Bound toof Teach Business Defense Human Diginity Every Gupta College of Business graduate recalls at least one class “After 35came years together. at UD, I couldn’t notthat be influenced by theinhigh where it all For many, moment began the moral standards,” finance said Professor Psychology and Human Sciences Scott D. managerial course of taught by assistant professors of finance Churchill. Fernando Arellano and Lynn Kendall. ast summer, a lawyer by the For the uninitiated, in commissioned that course groups areAmerican assignedPsychological a simulated Association founddecisions that prominent had cooperfirm to make(APA) managerial in real APA time.psychologists The simulation, develated with government officials to assist with harsh post-9/11 oped by Arellano, is used by several colleges and has helped interrogacounttion students techniques. less learn the foundations of business management. This was admits no surprise to Churchill APA and but a council repArellano he never planned(an to be anFellow instructor is aware resentative the Society of Humanistic Psychology), whojust hadthat. been that his life’sfor trajectory somehow prepared him to become working to extract the APA from thisasituation forinyears. In the early 1970s, Arellano began small farm Lima, Peru, exHe was key sponsor of a bill adopted by the APA to banpolitical involvepecting toagrow it into a commercial business. Shortly after, ment offorced psychologists in national security interrogations, a historic reform him to stop operation, at which point he decided to motion approved with an unprecedented 157-1 vote in what Churchill called pursue a finance career (including serving as CFO of the Agricultural “an emotional, moment.” Bank of Peru). Itcathartic wasn’t until he took a teaching assistant job while The resolution prohibits psychologists from working in settings pursuing a doctorate at Colorado State University that he realized the United Nations in violation oflife international law; Discover teaching was fardeclared more rewarding than in the corporate world. magazine named its implementation No. 34 in 2015’s top 100 science stories. Arellano began teaching full time. Nearly three decades later, he describes his work as a mission. “It’s all about guiding students through the learning process,” he said. “What brings me joy is using my business and consulting experiences to find creative ways to teach finance.”
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