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said. If late nights collecting data in the W.M. Keck Observatory aren’t your idea of fun, you haven’t met Megan Longstaff ’19 and Justin deMattos ’19, whose presentation was titled, “Observational Astronomy in Tacoma: Analyzing Jupiter’s Rotation and the Brightness Profile of Saturn’s Rings.” Longstaff, a morning person, worried about the hours at first. But “our projects were so fascinating that it was easy to stay up until 2 AM,” she said. DeMattos, a night owl, wasn’t fazed, but said the energy
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team is responsible for researching and gathering qualitative data on either distracted driving or driving under the influence of multiple substances (polydrug). The cohort hopes to help WTSC understand their drivers and create a campaign that encourages a change in behavior to stop driving under the influence of distractions or substances. Target Zero ProjectLena Khalaf Tuffaha - A Poet, Writer, and TranslatorTuffaha is a graduate of Master of Fine Arts in Creating Writing. She is the winner of
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before a school parent. It’s very compassionate and student-centered, focused on the families’ needs, versus data-driven. Kids are more than a number on a page,” she says.Lord says PLU’s mission around educating for “a life of service” shaped her perspective during the pandemic. “I think it helped me see where students are coming from before making assumptions,” she says. She can understand and empathize if a student struggles to complete a biology assignment when also experiencing food or housing
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reforming movements. Among his published works are Luther and the Hungry Poor: Gathered Fragments . Guest Contributors Kevin J. O’Brien Kevin teaches courses in Christian ecological ethics, religion and environment. He also teaches comparative ethics and Christian ethics in the religion department. His research focuses on the interconnections between religious faith and social justice, human ethics and environmental concerns, scientific data and moral commitments. Lisa Patterson ’98 Lisa Patterson is
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with CHEM 333 recommended. (4) BIOL 352 : Comparative Anatomy An evolutionary approach to the study of structural and functional relationships in the vertebrate body. Includes examination and dissection of major organs and organ systems using preserved animal organs and cadavers (including humans). The course emphasizes the analysis of similarities and differences across groups to assess the significance of adaptations and explore the historical and present diversity of vertebrate morphology
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staff and community members, readings and reflections, develop an understanding of the meaning of service in another culture and deepen one's own ethic of meaningful service. (4) SOCW 350 : Social Policy II: Social Policy Analysis Students develop legislative policy practice and advocacy skills, and examine the impact of policy implementation, administration, and governmental structure on services to vulnerable populations. Critical thinking is used to analyze contemporary global and local policy in
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contemporary social problems, evaluate multiple responses to those problems, and develop and articulate their own positions and commitments. Class themes vary, but every section includes cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis and a final culminating project.
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Disabilities and Applied Behavior Analysis from UW in 2009. She moved from the classroom into a specialist position in 2004 and coordinated the autism programs in Tacoma Public Schools for 7 years. She left in 2010 to join the University of Washington, Tacoma as a full time lecturer where she coordinated the Teacher Certification Program. She joined PLU in 2012 as an assistant professor. When she isn’t working, she is busy chasing after three children and working in the garden. Dr. Tucker works primarily
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, “global health activities” were responsible for creating nearly 44,000 jobs and generating $4.1 billion in “business activity” in the state. Let’s leave aside for the moment the question of whether we should even be trying to figure out how much money we can make by helping the world’s poorest. Let us just consider how this attempt to quantify global health in terms of the regional economy altered its meaning. The economic impacts were arrived at by virtue of incorporating into the analysis some
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Archives at PLU White’s analysis of historians and philosophers of the nineteenth century argues that their attempts to attain historical truth have been influenced by strategies of “emplotment” (structures of narrative), ideology (political beliefs), patterns of formal argument (founded upon various epistemological commitments), and styles of “tropic configuration” (different ways of giving order to our experience of the world at a preconceptual level). This intricate and difficult volume has
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