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By Michael Halvorson, Director of Innovation Studies Are you a current Innovation Studies student? Read on if you’re interested in presenting a paper or student project at a local Innovation conference. I was contacted recently by a colleague at the UW/Tacoma who directs their university’s…
, Design-thinking case studies, Climate and Environment, Health and Human Rights, Globalism, and Media and Security. The UW/T is very impressed with our Innovation Studies program, and hopes that some student work from this minor will be presented at their conference. Conference submissions may take the form of academic papers, posters, design projects, and/or performance/spoken-word art. Presentation Proposals The proposal takes the form of an abstract, which includes a project title and a 400-word
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Applications open December 15, 2022 for the Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C) Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates and the Clean Energy Bridge to Research (CEBR) Summer Program! Applications for both programs are due February 15, 2023. University of Washington’s Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C) aims…
energy conversion, information processing, and sensing technologies through design, discovery, processing, and application of complex electronic and photonic materials. The summer REU program is focused on exposing veterans and under-represented minorities to a viable and relevant career pathway focused on materials and energy research. Students will learn about relevant, state of the art content in future energy conversion, information processing, and sensing technologies through design, discovery
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The Pacific University School of Pharmacy in Hillsboro, Oregon is still accepting applications for Fall 2024! The School offers an on-campus 2-year Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences (MSPS) degree. This is an innovative program combining didactic courses with extensive research training. The degree is a…
coursework are research-based activities including hands-on laboratory training. This will provide learners with a diversity of experiences and quality training due to the uniqueness of our program. This program design allows students to not only immerse themselves in research and build necessary scientific knowledge, but also improve critical thinking, practical research, and communication skills. Students are given the opportunity to travel to a conference or meeting and present a poster or oral
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Applications open December 15, 2022 for the Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C) Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates and the Clean Energy Bridge to Research (CEBR) Summer Program! Applications for both programs are due February 15, 2023. University of Washington’s Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C) aims…
energy conversion, information processing, and sensing technologies through design, discovery, processing, and application of complex electronic and photonic materials. The summer REU program is focused on exposing veterans and under-represented minorities to a viable and relevant career pathway focused on materials and energy research. Students will learn about relevant, state of the art content in future energy conversion, information processing, and sensing technologies through design, discovery
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St[art] Momentum , the 2012 Senior BFA Exhibition at Pacific Lutheran University kicks off with an opening reception on April 25, 2012, from 5p.m. to 7p.m. Graduating BFA students will have their best work on display. The exhibit remains open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.…
see all their favorite mediums: ceramics, sculpture and painting, to photography and graphic design. “One of the great things about the work students have done is they’re really trying to push their mediums, think outside the box, and convey their artistic vision in really beautiful and unique ways,” Kate Miller ’12, BA student says. The entire process for this University Gallery show is like no other show this season. The exhibition is student driven from the advertising and catering to
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Like it did for so many, the theatre called to Associate Professor Amanda Sweger when she was in those awkward teen years. “For the first time, I felt accepted,” she said. Yet she quickly realized she didn’t like acting or auditioning. So, she spent a…
quickly realized she didn’t like acting or auditioning. So, she spent a year at her community theatre doing everything else — building sets, hanging lights, painting, stage managing and making copies. Those experiences, hard work and camaraderie inspired her to study to be a lighting and scenic designer. “In scenic design, I create the world the characters inhabit, and in lighting design I convey the emotion of moments, often without the audience ever noticing.” In 2012, she moved from the busy
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TACOMA, Wash. (Feb. 25, 2015)–The awards for MediaLab’s 2014 original documentary, Waste Not: Breaking Down the Food Equation , keep rolling in. The documentary has won three additional awards in the past week. Waste Not , which focuses on global food waste and hunger, received…
’15, also a senior producer of the film, began research in the fall of 2013. The pair then traveled across the United States, Canada and London with Chief Videographer Olivia Ash ’15 to film the documentary. Evan Heringer ’16 and Taylor Cox ’16 helped complete the final project with their editing and graphic-design skills. “We put our hearts and souls into this film, and its nice to be recognized with these awards,” Lunka said. “People don’t often give students enough credit, but we do great work
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Like it did for so many, the theatre called to Associate Professor Amanda Sweger when she was in those awkward teen years. “For the first time, I felt accepted,” she said. Yet she quickly realized she didn’t like acting or auditioning. So, she spent a…
quickly realized she didn’t like acting or auditioning. So, she spent a year at her community theatre doing everything else — building sets, hanging lights, painting, stage managing and making copies. Those experiences, hard work and camaraderie inspired her to study to be a lighting and scenic designer. “In scenic design, I create the world the characters inhabit, and in lighting design I convey the emotion of moments, often without the audience ever noticing.” In 2012, she moved from the busy
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On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it…
courses “use multiple lenses in order to overcome the blindness that comes from insisting upon just one.” While Heath’s class is advertised as a starship design class, the course is actually a multi-disciplinary exploration of the current state of planet Earth and the issues facing humanity.“This is a course about asking big questions and pursuing insightful answers,” Heath writes in the class syllabus. “Although we will be using some scientific methods of inquiry and exploring scientific ideas, this
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Michael Halvorson ’85 was a technologist before he was a historian. His PLU undergraduate degree is in computer science and he worked at Microsoft for the first 10 years of his career. He spent the next 15 years writing books about software and emerging technology.…
those things have been over time,” he explains. “An analysis of innovation should look at human communities, economic issues, art & design, ethics, technology, and more. If you examine these elements in an interdisciplinary way, you can really assess the dynamics of change in society.” Halvorson teaches business and economic history courses in the history department, as well as classes on innovation and the history of technology. He has also continued publishing books, including the lively new
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