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Dr. Charles Bergman begins his phased retirement in Summer 2015 after thirty-eight unusually interesting and accomplished years at PLU.
) – required both consummate research and hard, gutsy field work. His dozens of articles in prestigious nature periodicals – Smithsonian, Audubon, Natural History, National Geographic, to name a few – appeared there not only due to the excellence of his writing, but also because of his willingness to go where and do what few others would. It took more than just adventurousness; it also took innovation, creativity, and commitment. When the need for a professional photographer for his nature writing
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By the time she earned the university’s highest degree, she left with more than a shiny new title. The nurse practitioner for Providence Medical Group at Hawks Prairie Internal Medicine in Lacey,
field, they need mentorship. You need someone committed to them and their progress.” Read more about the first DNP cohortProfessors Collaborate with Students to Test Measurements of Hope Dr. David Ward, program director and associate professor of marriage and family therapy, worked with Jon Grahe, professor of psychology, and two former students on an interdisciplinary research project validating Ward’s previous research on a relationally focused measurement of hope. The findings were recently
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Join the Computer Science Department to hear the senior capstone presentations. Student presentations will take place Friday and Saturday. All talks are scheduled in Morken 203.
application, users can submit images and manage projects by storing multiple datasets and set parameters for the amount of blurriness deemed acceptable for any given project. The blurriness of the images is rated (1 to 5) to determine if images are in the acceptable range for the modeling datasets. Implications of this project could be used to efficiently sort or classify large image datasets. Currently, in the field of Geoscience, numerous images of topography are captured via drone imaging and manually
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Lost Boy of Sudan By Chris Albert The table in David Akuien’s South Hall apartment is covered with textbooks and worksheets, filled with meticulous notes. He sits down at the table and spends hours studying – this day it’s for an environmental studies test. David…
a.m. to 5 p.m. was near impossible, as the heat of the sun would roar down on the camp. There were few trees to provide sanctuary from the sun. There were moments though where the boys, who were forced to grow-up so soon, became kids again. In camp, the boys would gather around a soccer ball on a dirt field filled with rocks and no clear boundaries and just play. They’d play without shoes. The sand would coat the few clothes they had and the rocks would tear at their skin, causing wounds. But none
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Diving in to “Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis” For the past year and a half, MediaLab students Haley Huntington, Kortney Scroger, Valery Jorgensen and Katie Baumann have traveled throughout North America documenting the importance of water and perils facing our world’s most important…
Louisiana coastline. Collectively, Louisiana is losing football field sized chunks of wetlands an hour. With the amount of human intervention along the Mississippi River preventing seemingly harmful flooding, wetlands are unable to rebuild themselves with the river nutrient rich silt that would otherwise be deposited as river waters escaped their banks. Being overcome with saltwater, these vital portions of land are disappearing at alarming rates. There is that interconnectedness again. We spoke with
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The world of business is always changing. Markets trend up and down, technologies evolve, and ethical standards constantly progress. To many private-sector veterans, this rate of change can be daunting, but to students and faculty members at Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Business, they are…
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
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During the 2021-2022 academic year, 149 PLU students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their academic and career trajectory. Due…
studying away students engage in learning both in and outside of classrooms. Qualifying photos for this category may depict student interaction with their host communities and their natural environment. Examples may include students in internship and service projects, field study, culturally relevant activities, group study tours, etc.1st Place Noah Dunham “Snow Day” College comes in many forms. This picture proves just that. This is from a 5 day trip in the winter forests of Norway. Hard to believe
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Major in Religion 32 semester hours RELI 499: Capstone Research Seminar (offered only in Spring semester) 8 semester hours RELI coursework from Line One: Christian Traditions (RC): RELI 212, 220-229,
ecological knowledge in addressing environmental concerns. (4) RELI 491 : Independent Study For religion majors only and consent of the department is required. (1 to 4) RELI 495 : Internship To permit undergraduate students to relate theory and practice in a work situation. The title will be listed on the student term-based record as Intern: followed by the specific title designated by the instructor in consultation with the student. (1 to 4) RELI 499 : Capstone: Research Seminar - SR Intended for and
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Originally published in 1991 Tertullian, an African Christian writing in the second century of the Church, is perhaps most famous for his defiant one-liner about the resurrection, “I believe it because it is absurd.” The only trouble is: he never wrote those words, and wouldn’t…
where one might have thought they would: with other metaphysical beliefs. We all have beliefs about what there is, what is of value, and how knowledge may be obtained, that play a crucial role in our worldview. Though they are not closely tied to experience in the way a low-level scientific theory is, most of us would insist both that we really did have some reason for accepting them, and that we were open to being shown wrong. They are beliefs on which we continually act, not waiting around for
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