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Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund , a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However,…
network of faculty support. “Professor Halvorson inspired our class by encouraging us to start simple with our projects, focusing on social and environmental needs that can be discovered through empathy and compassion.” “We were taught to think about innovation as a design process that walks through several carefully defined stages. This reorientation to problem solving really inspired me.” “I realized that a sketchpad, a laptop, and an old sewing machine were all I really needed. Plus the space to
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Center Stage: The $20 million Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts officially opens in October By Steve Hansen Jeff Clapp ’89, PLU artistic director of theater, PLU theater program undergraduate, son of a theater professor, likes to tell a story of his tenure…
of activity since it opened, and has capably shouldered much of the theatrical load since Eastvold Auditorium closed. Like its larger sibling, it is also equipped with state-of-the-art lighting, sound and infrastructure, and was constructed with the highest environmental standards in mind. When the Eastvold Auditorium Main Stage opens in October, PLU will have two working stages that are capable of running simultaneously. “The opening of the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts is
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To: All students and families From: Office of the President Date: Wednesday, April 29 at 3:30 p.m. Dear students and families, My oldest son, a first-year university student, recently quipped, “Remote learning was okay for a few weeks, but I just want to get back…
, and stay safe. Allan Belton President Read Previous The Trail Back to PLU: Alayna Linde ’10 on her path from undergrad to urban planning and environmental outreach Read Next PLU, Dean Waldow receive NSF grant to continue lithium-ion battery research 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 Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition
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All majors must complete one of the Concentrations below. Students may complete more than one Concentration.
process. Prerequisite: WRIT 101 or its equivalent, Advanced Placement, or consent of instructor. (4) ENGL 232 : Women's Literature - IT, GE An introduction to fiction, poetry, and other literatures by women writers. Includes an exploration of women's ways of reading and writing. (4) ENGL 234 : Environmental Literature - IT Examines representations of nature in literature, and the ways in which humans define themselves and their relationship with nature through those representations. Focuses on major
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Emily Bond, Senior Capstone Seminar When facing a nonlethal selective pressure, cells are in a state of growth arrest, meaning that they are not able to divide.
for this data via ICP provided a strong R2 of 0.971. The collected environmental samples were measured using ICP and showed a concentration of below 1 ppb. This showed that all water samples contained [Pb2+] that are well below the EPA’s limit of 15 ppb, which is a positive indication of the region’s water quality. 3:25-3:40 pm - Break 3:40 pm - ASARCO’s Legacy: Bioaccumulation of As, Cd, and Pb in Mytilus trossulus and Mytilus californianus of Puget Sound Laura Glastra, Senior Capstone Seminar
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Carson J. Bergstrom, Senior Capstone Seminar A molecular library consisting of triazoles and benzotriazoles, functionalized with amides and nitriles in various substitutions was synthesized.
from the singlet or triplet state. The triplet excitons that are formed on picosecond timescale decay slowly, which is ideal for harnessing them in photovoltaic devices. Sweet Taste and Safety: Health and Environmental Effects of Aspartame and Sucralose Leighton R. Kingma, Senior Capstone Seminar The use of artificial and non-nutritive sweeteners has been on the rise in the past several decades. The increased intake of these sweeteners has led to many studies that seek to determine what potential
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A year of achievement and a Decade of Change Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is a great joy for me to welcome each of you to University Fall Conference as we prepare to launch the 2010-2011 academic year, the 121st year in the life of…
environmental sustainability continues campus-wide, most notably last year with the adoption of the a Climate Action Plan that sets out a goal of the campus being carbon neutral by 2020 through conservation, new technologies and carbon offsets. Student Life The members of the Student Life Division and Vice President Laura Majovski play a key role in supporting the academic, the co curricular, and the campus living experience of every student. A key focus of their work, along with Dean of Student Academic
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A PLU graduate reflects on his time abroad I sat in one of my first classes at the University of Westminster in London flummoxed. It was days since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and a European student sitting in the back of the lecture…
school because there was no need for her to attend anymore. It is not difficult to read about the challenges facing Indians today: a stagnant literacy rate, deficient infrastructure, environmental degradation, poor sanitation, malnourishment, repression of its women and a domineering caste system. It is a much more tangible reality when you are sitting and talking to one of the families where such challenges apply. I cannot fairly describe the humility I often felt talking with my neighbor’s daughter
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Campaign ends, surpasses goal by $22 million A performance in the Studio Theater in Eastvold Hall, which was recently renamed the Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. By Greg Brewis The university’s most recent fundraising campaign was launched amid buoyant economic times, in…
will continue as a university priority for the immediate future. The transformed center will provide 88,500 square feet of classroom and research space for biology, chemistry, computer science, geosciences, physics and environmental studies. Among the projects planned for Rieke that were completed during the campaign was the Louis and Lydia Sheffels Biology Laboratory. It was made possible by the support of Carol (Sheffels ’58) Quigg, Jerry Sheffels ’54 and the entire Sheffels family. Carol Quigg
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 4, 2019) — Pacific Lutheran University has a proud history of producing Fulbrights. The 2018-19 recipients are continuing that tradition by delving into indigenous studies research and education — a field that’s gaining ground at the university. Kaja Gjelde-Bennett ‘17 and English…
also work in Spanish.”Call, an affiliated faculty member with the NAIS program and Environmental Studies, has published more than 70 poem translations in U.S. literary journals and has a full-length collection of poem translations forthcoming, from the work of Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda. Expanding to another Latin-American country was a natural progression for her. “Colombia is just coming out of a long civil war and so it’s really interested in having foreign scholars come to the country as
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