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four-year, degree-granting institutions in the U.S. Navigating college can be difficult for any student, but it’s particularly challenging when you or your family might not understand the ins and outs of higher education. For those learning to navigate the language and culture of college, here are five things every current and incoming first-in-the-family student should know. And Gurjot Kang ’21 — a current first-generation student living in the “First in the Family” community in Stuen Hall

and personal support resources. According to Kris Plaehn, the center’s Executive Director, that was an intentional part of the Center’s design process. “It’s flexible space — we want students to see where the support (systems) are,” Plaehn said. “(We wanted) to build open space that students can configure however they want to. You can make an appointment with a research librarian, the writing center, a language tutor, any sort of academic assistance tutor, an academic advisor or reserve one of

narrates an unnamed protagonist’s callous development towards a career in business (selling water bottles), describing the shifting place of Asia in the global capitalist economy. The novel is told entirely in the second person voice, and it emulates the language of self-help guides, thus parodically identifying the connection between reading and self-betterment. Most importantly, it’s highly readable. The novel would contribute to PLU’s mission of global education and would also help students become

a Pathway for Adaptive Mutagenesis Chance Brock, Senior Capstone Seminar Cells under growth arrest have the ability to gain mutations by a process known as adaptive mutagenesis. In these conditions, replication has ceased, but transcription must continue to provide the cells with a means to express necessary proteins. We used Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism to study the effect of transcription on the acquisition of adaptive mutations, and specifically if unrepaired DNA damage in the

-Lethal Weapons and Achilles Goes Asymmetrical: The Warrior, Military Ethics and Contemporary Warfare (Ashgate 2014) Rona KaufmanTitle: Introduction, Mayer Summer Research Fellow presentation Who: Rona Kaufman, Associate Professor of English, PLU Bio: Rona Kaufman is associate professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University, where she teaches writing, memoir, and the English language.  Her article “Testifying, Silencing, Monumentalizing, Swallowing: Coming to Terms with In Memory’s Kitchen” was

dairy after expanding his farm in 1997. Who: Shaun Duvall Title: Founder and Director of Puentes/Bridges, 2001 – 2018 Bio: Puentes/Bridges Founder and Director, Shaun Duvall was also the owner of SJD Language and Culture Services, LLC, during the same years. SJD is an interpretation and translation service that also served to facilitate better relationships between employers on more than 40 dairy farms and their immigrant employees in WI and MN. Other agencies served were the Social Service