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WSU Honors College Faculty Receive Holocaust Education Grant

Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006

Amelia Veneziano, WSU Office of Undergraduate Education Communications and Marketing Assistant, 509/335-1369, a_veneziano910@yahoo.com
R. Wes Leid, WSU Honors Senior Fellow and Professor, 509/335-7802, wesleid@wsu.edu
Beverly Makhani, WSU OUE Director of Communications and Marketing, 509/335-6679, makhani@wsu.edu

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University Honors College faculty R. Wes Leid, Rachel Halverson and Ray Sun have received word that the Holocaust Education Foundation (HEF) will help support the “Week of Remembrance,” March 4-7, 2007.

With HEF support, John K. Roth, the Edward J. Sexton professor of philosophy at Claremont McKenna College and director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights in Claremont, Calif., will be the Week’s featured guest speaker. The schedule of the spring event is not yet available.

The Week of Remembrance takes place each spring at WSU and brings guests and speakers from diverse areas of Holocaust study to campus for presentations and interactions with students, faculty, staff and the community. The 2007 event marks the fifth year of the program.

The theme this year will be “Memory of the Holocaust.”

“Professor Roth is an oft-quoted and published expert on the Holocaust, and I am confident that he will bring considerable expertise and personal interest to the event,” said Leid, senior faculty fellow in the WSU Honors College.

HEF facilitates the campus visits of several distinguished visiting lecturers. Speakers associated with HEF will present at least one speech and participate in a class or event associated with the theme.

WSU’s Week of Remembrance events typically also include films and music. “There is something to learn for everyone, no matter what their personal style of learning,” said Leid.

Leid teaches “Medical Ethics and the Holocaust,” an Honors course that joins with Halverson’s class, “German Culture” in spring semester 2007. Halverson is an associate professor in the department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at WSU. Sun is an associate professor in the department of History.

Check the WSU Honors College Web site at honors.wsu.edu to get updates on the Week of Remembrance schedule.

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