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events. On Halloween 2020, the SCC debuted a virtual lecture/webinar on Halloween regarding folktales about witches and wizards in Scandanavian Folklore. The webinar, “‘Wizards And Magicians Were Found Everywhere’: Legends Of Witchcraft From The Nordic Countries” featured Dr. Amber Cederström. She spoke about the research for her dissertation, which focused on the legends of witches in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries in Scandinavia. This event and the Sankta Lucia were both free. Morning sun
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month of March 2017 for further archival research. She has a series of forthcoming articles on these three rediscovered works by Hermann Broch. Because of these fascinating discoveries, her original project of investigating the visual tropes in Broch’s work has been put on hold. She plans to return to this project in the near future. Dr. Jenkins had two texts (an edition and a scholarly article) about Broch published in September 2017 in Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und
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and inviting. Other schools have some of these things — but PLU has them all. Read Previous Students return to in-person research at PLU Read Next Major Minute: Brian Galante on Music LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal
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interventions and repair work that take place in the post-genocide context. Students conduct research and create a poster and presentation about an organization of their choice that works to repair the atrocities of genocide. Past projects have highlighted people working to destroy Cambodian land mines and those working with rape survivors and their offspring in Rwanda. “It’s really just amazing and a powerful aspect of the class that left students, not in despair or thinking that the world is a terrible
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Puyallup, first visited her tribe in 2003 and explored her culture by riding in a traveling canoe with her father. After declaring her major as a sophomore, she received a Wang Center grant to go help research involvement in cultural events. At first, she said she felt like an outsider. She didn’t know anyone and had to learn important aspects of the culture. But then last summer, Hall went on her first youth-led Tribal Canoe Journey, where she met many young people from other tribes who also are
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scenarios involving struggling students, Skipworth said. “It was very practical,” she added. Skipworth, who grew up in Graham and Puyallup, came to PLU after completing a bachelor’s degree in integrated educational studies from Chapman University in southern California. While her undergraduate degree included some observation and research in schools, it did not include state teacher certification. PLU’s graduate program allowed her to obtain a master’s degree and Washington state certification. At PLU
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-term kinesiology career goal is to help individuals maximize their athletic performance and enjoyment through mental skills training, with a specific interest in working with outdoor adventure athletes. My final applied project helped me work toward this goal, as the project was titled “Research to Practice: An Examination of Youth Sport Coaches’ Knowledge, Perceptions, and Use of Mental Skills Training.” For this project, I interviewed youth climbing coaches across the country to learn about their
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context of relationships with the people who are closest to you. Because Marriage and Family Therapy focuses at the systems level of human experience, this therapeutic approach helps the individual explore the connection between their human challenges and the systems around them and encourages people to find growth and healing in the midst of these ongoing relationships. This type of therapy is solution-focused, effective, and brief. Research indicates that this type of therapy can be more effective
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prevent climate change.” More involvement in sustainable living is on the way for Tegels. He is currently preparing to install a hot water panel, which is designed to minimize electricity used to heat hot water in a home. Tegels said there is a lot of misinformation circulating in an attempt to disprove the scientific research done about climate change. He said that enough scientific information points him in the right direction, and moving beyond science he said caring about the planet is simply
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compassion towards the global circumstance that would one day become manifest in the body of his work. In Katmandu, Youtz and Unsoeld landed a gig housesitting for John Seidensticker who was, at the time, conducting post-doctoral research on tigers and jaguars in the Tibetan backcountry. Seidensticker, who is now the head of the Conservation Ecology Center at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, subsequently introduced the pair to another survey tracking nearby rhino populations. Assisting in both
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