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  • match their gender identity. Academics Some absolutely stellar curricular offerings. Multiple students have said their lives were changed by the transgender literature class taught by Jennifer Smith, Ph.D. Co-Curricular Many different programs and hosted discussions from the PLU Diversity Center, including the formation of PLU’s Diversity Alumni Network. Co-Curricular In 2014, University Congregation became an official Reconciling in Christ church, welcoming the LGBTQ community into its student

  • Empirical Analysis of Acceleration Structures for Ray Tracing Spenser Currier (BS), Adam Rhoades (BS) Realistic rendering can take minutes, hours, or even days depending on the complexity of the scene. To meet modern demand in movies, video games, and commercials, acceleration structures for ray tracing have been designed to efficiently reduce the number of ray-triangle intersection checks necessary when traversing a scene using spatial subdivision. In this research project, we implemented acceleration

  • soldier : the experience of the Black soldier, World War II. Wayne State University Press. Whitaker. (2013). Peace be still : modern black America from World War II to Barack Obama. University of Nebraska Press. Rosario. (1999). A different battle : stories of Asian Pacific American veterans. Wing Luke Asian Museum. Britten. (1997). American Indians in World War I : at home and at war (1st ed.). University of New Mexico Press. Phillips. (2012). War! what is it good for? black freedom struggles and the

  • distinct historical and cultural norms. Similarly, the professors who teach the IHON classes also bring diversity in their disciplines – Randhawa’s two first-year IHON classes, for instance, were taught by experts in historical theology and French Literature. Randhawa loved them both. Others see it that way, too. And the benefit isn’t just in the classroom. “I like having friends who have completely different views and completely different visions of where their life is going to go,” said Nellie Moran

  • . Among the definitions of cheating included in PLU’s policy on Academic Integrity is “[the use of] information or devices not allowed by the faculty, such as formulas or a computer program or data….” Given the aims and the realities mentioned above, and in light of PLU’s policy on Academic Integrity, the Department of Global & Cultural Studies issues the following guidelines on the use of machine translation for students of language, literature, and culture: The use of machine translation in the

  • concentration of DNA with acceptable purity but failed to produce true amplification in the qRT-PCR assay until after being ‘cleaned’ with Bioline Sureclean ® DNA Purification kit. Based on the literature, it is probable an inhibitory contaminate originating either with the anticoagulant used at harvest or other innate whole blood polysaccharides caused inhibition of the enzymes used in qRT-PCR amplification. This suggests special attention also needs to be focused on pre-assay protocols to identify

  • - Implications of Tau Protein in Alzheimer's Disease: A Contemporary Literature and Research Review Shawn Brookins, Senior Capstone Seminar Alzheimer’s Disease, the most common form of progressive dementia, has transitioned among the forefront of healthcare research, lending to novel biochemistry research avenues. In particular, research has attempted to implicate malconformations of tau protein in the development of this pathology. This review summarizes the competing hypotheses that attribute truncated and

  • . Multiple myeloma is a cancer that starts in the plasma cells, which are mostly found in bone marrow. The cells then collect to form tumors called plasmacytoma. According to the American Cancer Society, most cases of multiple myeloma are found in patients who are 65 and older. Drews is 45. He was 31 when he moved to Washington, to get acquainted with the country where his life started. Drews was born in Spokane and has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada. He currently lives in Surrey, British

  • PLU Computer Science program paves the way for students to embark on exciting career opportunities within the high-technology industry. Through our curriculum, you will delve into the theoretical, practical, and ethical dimensions surrounding the equipment, software, and data driving modern computer systems. As a student, you’ll acquire substantial hands-on experience in analysis and design, encompassing software development, while exploring a wide spectrum of programming languages and systems

  • treatment is undoubtedly informed by a context where the concept of hysteria was very much in the zeitgeist. The word has more immediate relevance in history as well as other dialectic afterlives in current discourse, too. You need only look at the history of weaponized “hysteria” diagnosis up into the 1960s or the more modern trope of the “crazy ex-girlfriend” which is often in actuality a woman who is retaliating against male abuse only to be castigated for an account of male behavior that the man