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The official news stories of Pacific Lutheran University.
October 23, 2024 At a summer 2023 banquet launching the Uukumwe Project, Sanet Steenkamp, executive director of Namibia’s Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture, advised a group of Namibian and American teachers not to hold back. “The children,” she said, “deserve for us not to hold back.” Steenkamp’s… continue reading Heven Ambachew ’24 combines her passions and experiences to design major in innovation studies June 4, 2024 Like many students, Heven Ambachew ’24 wasn’t yet sure of her major when
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Global health: Why does it matter? If public health was a fashion show, global health would be the new black. It’s hot. But what is global health, exactly? And why does it matter? Mark Twain once complained that everybody talks about the weather but nobody…
Summit. Billed as a global health conference dedicated to using science and technology for the betterment of the world, it has been mostly focused on expanding biomedical innovations in upper- and middle-income Asian nations. In short, it’s about selling American biomedical technology and expertise overseas. That’s fine, insofar as it goes, but the biggest problems in global health are among people who live on maybe a dollar or two a day. They won’t be buying too many of our new drugs, DNA testing
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Associate Professor of Biology Jacob Egge works with students during a summer semester research project. (Photo by PLU Photographer John Froschauer) Faculty-Student Research Provides a Cornerstone of the PLU Mission By Pacific Lutheran University Marketing & Communications and the Office of the Provost This year’s…
words, as large as a human teenager’s. Third, we used the narratives of our experiences and our photography to write several articles, exploring complex relations between the legal trade and the illegal trade. The legal trade, for example, offers cover for the illegal smuggling of birds, and the same people are often involved in both. Seth Dowland, Ph.D., and Clayton Bracht Department of Religion Sports, Christianity, and Manliness: Evolving Notions of Christian Manhood in the YMCA Kelmer-Roe
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Are you brave or are you insane for coming out at a Lutheran university in the 90s… or are you just doing the right thing? Beth Kraig (full oral history interviews part one, part two, and part
professional stakes that she and Tom were facing: “That was their job. That was their livelihood. That was them. Going for tenure, that was not an easy decision that they made, and it was so incredible. … It could have gone very differently.” Fannie Lou Hamer (left) and Ida B. Wells (right): two of Beth’s “historical mentors” and two figures featured in her courses on African-American History and Women’s History in the US. Read more about Hamer here and Wells here. When I asked Beth how she feels about
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PLU has a wide variety of activities and events that you can participate in. You'll meet more people, improve your English faster, and have more fun if you get involved in even one of the many
organization dedicated to addressing the diverse needs of the student body and promoting University values of Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability. While you are not eligible to participate in student elections or serve on a committee, you may be interested in learning more about how student governments work in American universities.GO Student Clubs and Organizations | 学生社团和团体组织PLU has a lot of student clubs and organizations! Clubs are student-run organizations around identities (like the Black Student
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If you are living with a medically diagnosed food allergy or intolerance, you are not the only one on PLU's campus!
symbols at the stations to inform you which allergens are present: And the allergens will be listed out like this on the GET mobile app: Vegetarian (V), Vegan (Vn), Gluten-Friendly (GF), Gluten (G), Dairy (D), Egg (E), Soy (S), Sesame (Ss), Shellfish (Sf), Fish (F), Peanut (P), Treenut (Tn), Coconut (C), Pork (X)Quick Links American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network Allergy icons are displayed based on recipe
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Why We Cite In essence, we cite sources because this lets us join and participate in an ongoing scholarly conversation with other scholars.
(used by Business, Nursing, Political Science, etc.)APA Manual: RR BF76.7.P83 2020 (Located by the library help desk.) APA Resources: APA Style: Reference Examples Published by the American Psychological Association, APA style is often used by scholars and researchers in fields like psychology, political science, nursing, business, among others. In-text citations are formatted to allow the reader to easily follow ideas while also providing information about the sources that were used to support the
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Performance/clinic: Each school band will perform 15-20 minutes along with a 15-20 minute onstage clinic.
, marching and jazz. An Oregon native, Mrs. Davey earned her bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Oregon where she earned the Outstanding Undergraduate Woodwind Performance Award. She concluded her master’s degree in conducting from the American Band College of Sam Houston State University in 2010 and now serves on their assessment faculty. Each summer, Mrs. Davey serves as the host and coordinator for the Oregon Band Directors Association (OBDA) new music reading session
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Isaiah Banken ’21 knew he wanted to pursue a career in medicine. Banken, with a B.S. in biology and a minor in mathematics from PLU, explored various medical opportunities near his hometown of Wenatchee, WA, including working at a ski resort, serving in hospice care,…
Washington School of Medicine, I traveled extensively before starting school in July of this year. What are some of your fondest memories from PLU? IB: I was on the PLU Men’s rowing team for three years. The sunrises and the foggy mornings on American Lake are very memorable. Other moments like running on the golf course, eating dinner with my friends in Red Square in the fall, and the PLU Christmas concert are also up there. In my first year, it snowed just enough, so my friends and I built a jump and
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Next of kin: the ethics of eating, capturing, and experimenting on great apes One of the pressing problems of our times is the future of the great apes. All of the great apes – chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans – are endangered. Their habitat is…
apparent differences have led us, more often than not, to believe ourselves more important than other species. “At CHCI I learned to care for the family of four chimpanzees who live there: Washoe, Tatu, Loulis and Dar. All are famous for acquiring elements of American Sign Language, which they use on a regular basis to communicate with each other and with their human companions. Washoe, Tatu and Dar were raised as deaf human children by human ‘parents,’ while Loulis learned from other chimpanzees
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