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, we can continue and enhance innovative academic programs that create internships and research opportunities for all students.Meet Dr. Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, the interim dean of Interdisciplinary Programs and professor of Religion and Culture. She shares with us how the pandemic has changed the college classroom and how PLU’s professors are challenging our students to prepare them for the future.  How are academic programs leaning on each other to build successful curriculums? We’re engaging in

skied from upper to lower campus. I studied away in Windhoek, Namibia, for one semester (though it was cut short by COVID). Learning about the history of Namibia was fascinating and eye-opening. Traveling to National parks and seeing elephants, giraffes, zebras, and cheetahs is something I’ll cherish for the rest of my 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

supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines’ research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others, and by the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice.”– Provided by publisher. Morris, Monique W. Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues 

summer after my first year, I did a program with the Business school to do a service project in Nicaragua. (3) My sophomore year, I did the IHON Oxford program during J-term and spring semester. (4) That summer, I went to Guatemala for an internship with the U.S. Embassy and also had funding from the PLU Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education to do a research project on Guatemala’s civil war monuments and the indigenous genocide that occurred through that civil war. (5) The J-Term of

business professor, came to PLU from a large research institution. She immediately noticed a stark difference in how her new institution approached the field.   “At PLU, the business curriculum is mostly designed around soft skills, meaning how you build insightful inquiries, how you’re able to connect the dots, connect the concepts that you’re learning across your business and general courses.” “All companies can have their own set of desired skills and they can train their employees. Here, we’re not

. [This extract is from the book Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Religious Journey, forthcoming from Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI.] Read Previous PLU Alumna Wins the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize Read Next Summer 2021 Benson Research Fellows Announced LATEST POSTS Recording of Glory M. Liu’s 2023 Benson Lecture Released November 21, 2023 Benson Summer Research Fellows to Present October 15, 2021 A Conversation with Dr. Rebekah Mergenthal July 26, 2021 Summer 2021 Benson Research Fellows

makes a difference in people’s lives.” “It’s an excellent opportunity,” political science professor Michael Artime agreed. “(Students) have lots of questions about what politicians think about various issues, and I can research on those things — but that’s very different than having a candidate there they can directly ask those questions to.” Anderson is working to capitalize on that student interest and turn it into student action. She’s the data coordinator for Lute Vote, a PLU student government

completing an engineering degree (in 2 years) at one of our partner institutions, or at another university offering an ABET-accredited engineering degree.In this way, a student gets the best of both worlds. Students take their introductory courses in STEM here at PLU in small classes instructed by professors deeply invested in student learning; at many engineering research institutions, these introductory courses are very large, and students often have to apply for admittance into engineering majors

who allegiance to the US and expected service employees) CLOSES: 10/16/17 LINK: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/480860300 Read Previous Accepting Applications for 2017 SCI Internships Read Next Undergraduate Research at Caltech LATEST POSTS ACS Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Respect (DEIR) Scholarship May 7, 2024 Environmental Lab Scientist in Training May 2, 2024 The Priscilla Carney Jones Scholarship April 18, 2024 $2000 DEIR scholarship- Extended Deadline May 15! April 16, 2024

and editor, said while the news media almost exclusively report about water scarcity in developing parts of the world, Tapped Out uncovers serious water challenges in North America. “It’s an attempt to communicate the current status of water and how the developed nations aren’t as prepared as we think that they are,” Scroger said. “We don’t have as much water as we think we do.” During research and production of the film, the students conducted dozens of interviews, meeting with citizens, farmers