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253.538.6393 www.plu.edu/stem-education munroam@plu.edu Andrea Munro, Ph.D., Director There is a need for excellent teachers with strong content knowledge in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) who are able to teach using culturally sustaining pedagogy. The STEM Education minor is supportive of, and connects to PLU’s focus on diversity, justice, and sustainability and provides a program for students to explore teaching as a vocation. This interdisciplinary program is
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PLU students take STEM into local elementary classrooms Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / October 29, 2019 Image: PLU students Jimmy Aung and Jamie Escobar (not pictured) led a science class at Four Heroes Elementary as they explore the education through a grant funded program. October 29, 2019 By Debbie CafazzoMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 28, 2019) — Drop by drop, the lesson comes into focus for this classroom full of fifth-graders.Jimmy Aung ’19, a PLU biology major, and his
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Beloved Emeritus Mathematics Professor Bryan Dorner passed away in May. “Bryan truly cared about students’ learning and provided an exceptional PLU experience to them,” says Emeritus Math Professor Mei Zhu. Mathematics major Lindsey Clark ’24 is a Noyce scholar and future teacher “I like math and the discipline of working with students. That’s where my passion is.” New Data Science Major begins Fall 2024. PLU introduces new data science major to meet growing demand in data-driven economy
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Our Departments & Programs Show more information about these links Biology The Biology class sizes are small and almost every course has weekly laboratories, taught by faculty members, where students learn to become biologists by making observations, asking questions, and designing and testing hypotheses. Chemistry The Department of Chemistry has an outstanding curriculum, excellent faculty, great facilities, and is accredited by the American Chemical Society. Computer Science The CS department
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PLU STEM Resource LibraryThe PLU STEM Resource Library was created to provide laboratory equipment, supplies, and inclusive (fictio and non-fiction) STEM books to classrooms in our partner districts (Clover Park, Franklin Pierce, Tacoma). The library was established with funding from a National Science Foundation Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program Capacity Building Grant (Award Number 1758506). Funding to maintain and grow the PLU STEM Resource Library is provided from a National Science
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maintained the family unity of support. The Morris’ were truly bonded. Stanley was a visionary. He specified that the Fund support environmental studies, mathematics and the sciences. As a political conservative, he recognized the need to conserve and also advance in knowledge for the preservation of the earth and humanity. His foundation came from very humble beginnings, graduating from high school into the Great Depression, serving in WWII, and was part of the “Greatest Generation”. Thus he shared his
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explore how the Public Chef Intellectual enacts change. One answer is taste. “Our next piece, entitled ‘Taste Makers’ (in preparation for the 2015 National Communication Association conference) examines how chef’s recruit the palette into political projects, such as teaching people that locally sourced food tastes better,” explains Eckstein. “If people develop a taste for this style of food, then it anticipates choices.” PLU students can view the full articles online. They have access to the journal
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, CIWA is not a mission of a foreign government or political party. CIWA does work with Chinese educators and people across Washington State to promote learning about Chinese language and culture. This includes some financial and staff support from China. However, all CIWA funding, activities, programs and personnel are managed by US-based scholars for the benefit of people here in the United States. CIWA governance, much like this website, is fully open and transparent. /* fix for jQuery UI library
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innocents, and that 9-11 was a political, not a religious act of violence. Representatives from the Secular Student Alliance, the Pan-Orthodox Organization and the Oseh Shalom Jewish Club also spoke at the gathering. On Saturday, the commemorative events continued, as the PLU community participated in a Day of Service. Volunteers helped individuals with yard work in the Parkland community. Finally on Sunday, the 10-year anniversary of the attacks, the first of the Richard D. Moe Organ Recital Series
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Wild Hope Center, and we look forward to learning from him and celebrating his commitment to human and ecological flourishing,” said Faculty Fellow in Humanities and Wild Hope Director for External Relations Samuel Torvend. In 2019, Steves was featured in PLU’s ResoLute magazine and shared insights about the political and spiritual benefits of international travel. “The whole idea about traveling is to get out of your comfort zone, and to gain an empathy for the other 96 percent of humanity
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