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,” stated Kop. “The purpose of the Bahtinov Mask is to assist in focusing on objects seen through the telescope. This ensures that the stars I was imaging had a normal appearance of a circular dot; this particular mask was 3D-printed by Matthew Hacker.”Observing the Moon:“I am using the observatory desktop computer to utilize a free software package known as AstroImageJ, a professional astronomy program that I used extensively throughout this summer to compute data for my research,” said Kop. “The image
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they liked and disliked about how Sakai was used in their courses. All students interviewed said they had taken courses where some tools on the Sakai site menu were not used. They described their frustration as a scavenger hunt where they clicked on the tool menu item but found a dead end with no content, wondering why the tool was even there or if they had missed something. When you create your Sakai site, it includes a default set of commonly used tools that appear in the left menu. But you can
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happen next, or how long the show will last, but as long as the students blow him away with the work they put into the videos, he’ll continue supporting the project. “The best moment for me is when I sit back and they’re teaching me,” Finitsis said. “I do it because I believe in the videos, I believe in the student work. “I want to be a part of this. I like this. It’s fun.” Read Previous PLU alumna gets front row seat to soccer history Read Next Alumni Profile: Brian Ford ’95 COMMENTS*Note: All
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Alumni Feature: Jeremy Mangan Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 20, 2012 April 20, 2012 Who: Jermey Mangan – Graduated from PLU in 1998 with degrees in fine art and German Many SOAC students hope their careers turn out like Jeremy Mangan’s. Currently, he is included in Tacoma Art Museum’s 10th biennial, a group exhibition at Cornish College and a finalist for the prestigious and generous award called the Neddy. He’s the subject of a feature in an upcoming arts and culture publication and
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Samuel Torvend, Ph.D., ’73 has spent his life studying religion and politics. “I wrote my senior thesis on religion and politics and I have never strayed from that,” Torvend said. The alumnus and longtime professor will be talking about, what else, religion and politics for his farewell lecture as the chair of the Lutheran Studies department. Torvend was appointed chair in 2011 by the Board of Regents, which created the department in an effort to study Lutheran history and heritage. Torvend will
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is very good at one-on-one talks and working with individual students, was just great,” he said. Kop’s interest for science grew when he took science courses through the Running Start program while he was a student at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. As part of Running Start, Kop attended Tacoma Community College, where he majored in astronomy and took courses that interested him. But by the time he got to PLU, as a transfer junior, Kop was ready to take on a challenging schedule as an upper
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Mycal Ford, ’12, who acted as moderator during last Tuesday’s lecture. (Photo by Thomas Nelson) At one point, during those South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in 1995, Tutu simply put his head in his hands and cried. Later, Tutu said of his grief – “I couldn’t carry all that emotion around with me.” Yet he added that what happened in South Africa now shows “that no situation is devoid of hope.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p4vG7FBDPY Tutu will bring these messages of
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Humanities series. Both presentations will focus on the complexities, evolution and future of family diversity in the United States. Read Previous PLU Hosts Free Resource Summit for Veterans Communitywide Read Next From First-Year Communication Student to Election Night Reporter With the Pros COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships
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on our world. This year, the 10th Biennial Wang Symposium comes full circle, with a focus on “Healing: Pathways for Restoration and Renewal.”“Even as I was planning the 9th biennial symposium two years ago, I was already thinking that the next symposium would be on a topic that would bring forth ideas and practices about how to bridge polarization,” said Tamara Williams, Ph. D., executive director for the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. The topic of healing soon took on
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Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 May 20, 2024 Cece Chan ’24 elevates the experience of Hmong Farmers and their rich history with Seattle’s Pike Place Market May 20, 2024
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