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Jessica Crask ‘17 Posted by: juliannh / February 22, 2022 February 22, 2022 By Annika AmbergWhen Jessica Crask ‘17 found the Diversity Center, she found what made her a Lute. The Center provided a sense of home, friends, and fun, and through it, Jessica found relatability with non-traditional students, practical life skills, and a drive to make the world a better place.Due to financial challenges, college wasn’t originally the plan for Jessica. “College wasn’t really a conversation in my family

November 18, 2010 PLU student and prof head to Antarctica for global warming research through study of rocks and ice By Barbara Clements In a lab littered with Hostess snack bars and French fry wrappers, geosciences student Mike Vermeulen ’12, turns to his computer and pops up a map of Antarctica, then points to a grid in the upper part of the frozen continent. PLU geoscience professor Claire Todd and PLU student Mike Vermeulen head to deep into Antarctica to study rocks that may help explain

December 7, 2012 PLU grad reaches new horizons, finds calling at NASA By Cassady Coulter ’14 After coming across an ad for a job at NASA in the newspaper, Sheryl Wold ‘76 decided to take her chances and send in an application. Wold didn’t just land the job — she beat out more than 250 applicants who had more relevant research experience. She now finds herself with a career she loves but never once expected. Wold was contracted by the government through the University of California, Sheryl Wold

PLU environmental studies students chart the challenges facing the nearby Clover Creek Watershed Posted by: Zach Powers / January 7, 2020 Image: PLU students in the Fall 2019 Environmental Studies 350 course take a quick photo break during a water sample collection excursion. (Photos courtesy of Claire Todd.) January 7, 2020 By Zach Powers '10Marketing & CommunicationsAt Pacific Lutheran University, natural science research can lead students all the way to Antarctica and back again. For

committee proposed, among other reductions, cutting nine faculty positions across the departments in humanities, including the elimination of the undergraduate classics program. “I saw evidence that the committee had worked incredibly hard,” O’Brien said, noting that he doesn’t agree with all of the recommendations. “My job as dean of humanities, and as a faculty member who values the liberal arts at PLU, is to fight to make sure classics continues to have a place at PLU.” Alumnus Ben Dobyns

time of her presentation she was waiting nervously to hear whether she would get a job as a data analyst at Seattle-based Horizon Air. She credited this physics capstone – she had to do two others to complete her triple major – with catching the attention of the human resources department at the airline. Every spring, hundreds of PLU students go through the drill of final projects, called capstones. But these research projects, works of art, or music compositions are much more than a final box to

conversations concerning sex, gender and sexuality. (Listen to the full lecture below.) PLU Assistant Professor of Political Science Kaitlyn Sill led students in a robust examination of California’s recently passed affirmative consent law. The new policy will fundamentally shift the protocol and standards used by the state’s college campuses to prevent and investigate sexual assault. It also stands to challenge long-held national paradigms concerning domestic violence. Commonly referred to as “yes means yes

life. Being able to study away without it costing more than my regular cost of attendance was amazing. In Namibia, I started a biochemistry research project on the potential chemical properties of certain indigenous plants and helped two other PLU students, Ben Soderling, and Elizabeth Larios, with an observational hand hygiene study in one of the hospitals. Elizabeth returned to Namibia to continue working on that project as a Fullbright scholar. Being around people like them at PLU was really

become salient to you in your journey as a university professor?PM: Teaching language is such an experience. It’s two dimensional. We are developing language skills, but on the other hand, it is the content that matters so much. We are using the language to discuss the world and questions that are relevant to us, our experience. It allows us to discuss things that matter to us. JRO: I like that concept of duality—that language is interwoven with culture. You cannot separate the two. It’s important to

). Canadian university acknowledgment of indigenous lands, treaties, and peoples. Canadian Review of Sociology, 54(1), 89+. https://ezproxy.plu.edu/login?url=https://.gale.com/apps/doc/A487281295/AONE?u=taco36403&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=99826c17 “At many Canadian universities it is now common to publicly acknowledge Indigenous lands, treaties, and peoples. Yet, this practice has yet to be considered as a subject of scholarly inquiry. How does this practice vary and why? In this paper we describe the content