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While many of their classmates braved a chilly winter back in Parkland, three Lutes sat on a beach in Hawaii watching whales. No, it wasn’t vacation. It was research.
and sharing results with the broader scientific community,” Smith said. “The extensive reading and thinking about primary literature that accompanies research allows students to further explore and identify the questions and topics that excite them.” The experience also is good for students who don’t become professional researchers, she said. “For students who do not go on to become research scientists, this serves them as lifelong learners,” Smith said. “For others who do pursue research careers
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Mycal Ford ’12 has spent the year teaching in Taiwan on a Student Fulbright Fellowship. Mycal Ford ’12: A journey of discovery leads this Lute to China and Taiwan By Barbara Clements University Communications Mycal Ford eyed the skewer of fried scorpions he held at…
travelled to Lhasa, Tibet, where he watched devout Buddhists make a pilgrimage to a city and prostrate themselves in a circuit around the temples with prayer wheels, especially at the Jokhang Temple, one of the holiest sites in Tibet to Buddhists. Prayer flags would snap against the wind, along with the Chinese national flag. Centuries old streets, would intersect with more modern boulevards. Smells of spices, dust and exhaust fumes would compete for dominance. “I was just transfixed by the place,” he
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2016)- Senior Tyler Dobies and first-year Caitlin Johnston say spring break changed their lives. While some Pacific Lutheran University students may have gone on vacation or had fun in the sun, other Lutes – like Johnston and Dobies – were busy…
Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. In partnership with the PLU Diversity Center, the trip sent eight students to Georgia and South Carolina to study environmental justice in a civil rights context. The trip focused largely on the history of racism and slavery, the importance of primary resources in an economic context and modern devices in society that unjustly divide people into different socioeconomic and racial areas. “The whole experience was very meaningful,” Dobies said. “It put
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Rick Barot is a highly acclaimed national figure in poetry whose 2020 collection “The Galleons” was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s also a dedicated creative writing teacher, serving as an English professor at Pacific Lutheran University and the director of the Rainier…
naturally, or did you intentionally challenge yourself or do something a bit different? My books prior to “The Galleons” were definitely more concerned with my immediate and contemporary life. Starting with “The Galleons,” there’s definitely a historical element that is a new element in my writing, but the catalyst for that historical perspective was a personal one because I was thinking a lot about my grandmother who died in 2016, at 92 years old. Thinking about her life and my own personal loss, it
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Sophia Mahr ’18 analyzed how and why medical providers repeatedly and deliberately harmed people in the name of medical science by conducting non-consensual experiments on their subjects.
marginalized populations, and the subsequent findings of those studies that are, in some cases, used and cited in contemporary research. Mahr analyzed how and why medical providers repeatedly and deliberately harmed people in the name of medical science by conducting non-consensual experiments on their subjects. Those ambitious professionals, she says, argued that the ends justified the means — that the harms were necessary to foster a greater good. Within her research, Mahr examined three case studies of
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When Hilde Bjørhovde returned to Norway, fresh out of PLU’s journalism program, her home nation had one television station.
surpassed 100,000 and are on the rise. “And, of course, they get the newspaper on their e-pads.” So, Bjørhovde’s career nearly bookends the contemporary evolution of newspapers, starting with her training at PLU. “We didn’t even have typewriters in the classroom,” she said, laughing. “We were writing by hand. It was very last-century stuff.” NowThe cover of one of Aftenposten's newspapers. ThenA newspaper clipping from the Nov. 4, 1977, edition of The Mooring Mast, which includes an article written by
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More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.
’ homeland through study away programs. Students travel more than 4,500 miles to extend their interdisciplinary knowledge in big cities and small villages alike, gaining a global perspective that’s equal parts foreign and familiar. While the sites might be new, Lutes are exposed to common values that tie PLU to Norway ― both the historical and the contemporary. A ResoLute writer and photographer traveled to Norway in the fall to get a glimpse of our roots ― våre røtter ― through the eyes of students
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34-38 semester hours depending on program M.A.E. with Teacher Certification The Master of Arts in Education with Teacher Certification Program helps prepare preservice teachers to establish a
legal and professional responsibilities of all mandated reporters. (1) EDUC 528 : Reading and Writing Across the K-8 Curriculum Investigates genres of contemporary children's literature and how to develop a personal repertoire of reading material for classroom use. Also examines strategies for teaching writing in K-8 classroom. (2) EDUC 529 : Reading and Writing Across the Secondary Curriculum Explores strategies for integrating young adult reading materials and written work and reading and writing
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Rodion A. Zhuravlev, Senior Capstone Seminar Solid polymer electrolytes are a safer alternative to the current electrolytes found in lithium-ion batteries.
- Colorimetric Biosensing Assay using Silver Nanoparticles for Detection of Aptamers and other Biological Targets Katie Cameron, Senior Capstone Seminar The purpose of this research is to recreate a colorimetric detection assay similar to literature and use silver nanoparticles instead of regularly used gold particles to detect DNA and other biological targets. to make this process cheaper/easier to perform. The basic experimental method includes the synthesis of silver nanospheres that are attached to a
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Established in 2022 through a gift from David and Lorilie Steen, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for
University of British Columbia in Vancouver “The Environmental History of Not-Seeing: Indigenous Landscapes and the Re-Imagining of Cascadia”
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