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Why Do We Sleep?
You may think you know why we sleep: to rest tired minds and bodies. But the truth, writes SPU Brain Center Director John Medina, is that until about a decade ago, no one really understood the reason for sleep. Surprising evidence suggests that while we sleep, our brains are actually �going to school.�
 What Brain Research Does (and Doesn�t) Tell Us About Learning
Creating Brain-Friendly Spaces
Rethinking School
When SPU opened the Brain Center in 2006, its mission was simple but revolutionary: to use basic rules about how the brain learns to improve our nation�s schools. Now faculty in education, psychology, business, and science are beginning to do exactly that.
Retiree Turned Education Activist
The Lemon Tree
A Palestinian family, a Jewish family, and one beloved house: SPU Professor of History Don Holsinger introduces readers to The Lemon Tree, a new book required of students in his Common Curriculum course �The West and the World.�
Join Students in Reading a New Addition to the Common Curriculum
A Balanced Empathy
Secrets of the Scrolls
As the much-anticipated Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition continues in Seattle, SPU Professor John Levinson discusses what the scrolls reveal about first-century Judaism, early Christianity, and our Scriptures today.
Excerpts From the Experts
Qumran�s Treasure
Akemi�s Garden
With two small hands, a red wagon, and a big heart, 5-year-old Akemi Takahashi planted a garden to raise funds for hungry children. The daughter of SPU alumna Kathy Kestle Takahashi �94, Akemi sold her harvest door-to-door.
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