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the liberal arts—A basic understanding of history, language, art, religion, culture, ethics, philosophy and science is a foundation for all more specialized knowledge, c.f., PLU’s ROTC program. Learning and research within community—Nobody pursues an education alone. We were meant to collaborate with each other. It’s built into our DNA. Even an online course assumes there’s someone on the other end helping to lead and guide us while we study in front of our laptop. The intrinsic value of the whole

language. Douglas Oakman, Professor of Religion, served as Dean from 2004-2010. Photo from Prism 2006. Keith Cooper shows that contemporary questions about faith and reason have precedent in a long tradition of philosophical and theological discourse, using that tradition to defend religious belief that is not just compatible with but informed by science. Mark Jensen uses philosophical and literary traditions to reflect on the very project of history, commenting on contemporary debates about art while

graduates are a precious, life changing and transformative force in the world. Let me explain: The first message came on June 26. It brought the crushingly sad news of the death of Army Lt. Brian Bradshaw,a 2007 political science graduate.  Brian was a strong student, an ROTC volunteer and leader, who entered the military, in his own words, “not to win a war but to make the lives of people better.”  Brian was killed when an IED exploded along a roadside in Afghanistan. Brian left behind several essays

job than your average English teacher—in fact, my students are all products of good English teachers and parents who encourage reading, which I’m so thankful for! I don’t know that I teach them how to write or be creative. I’m not sure that I can do that, in the way that a science teacher does a lab or an English teacher explains verb agreement. I think my role is more to whip up excitement about this work, about books and stories in general, and let them kind of roll around in all of it in a

, manipulated to resemble a model bobsled run. Students get ready to drop their marble at the top of the run and see if it can go around a loop Pyles has made. They’re using math and science to predict what the outcome will be and what they have to do to get the marble to make the loop. “Will it make it?” Pyles asks the first student. “I think so,” a 7-year-old says with confidence. They’ve made their diagrams and it should work. “OK, let it rip,” Pyles says. The marble runs down the pipe and whirls around

received well by her parents). This passion for art continued as she entered grade school and into high school. After high school, Rebecca came to PLU as a graphic design and mathematics major. This quickly changed and Rebecca will be graduating with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Ceramics and a Bachelors of Arts in Computer Science. ARTIST STATEMENT My work examines the uncontrollable and powerful forces of nature. In this series of platters and sculpture, I am exploring how humans connect to nature. I

individual and communal scholarship life spans the entire faculty population — from the one-year visitor, to the the new tenure-track assistant professor, to the accomplished full professor. Among the faculty awards, recognitions and publications during the past year a very small sample would include: Claire Todd, a visiting faculty member in geosciences and environmental studies, who received more than $120,000 from the National Science Foundation for her research in Antarctica. Kevin O’Brien, assistant

Save the Date! Please join us for a presentation by Dr. Anne McCoy, Natt- Lingafelter Professor of Chemistry and the recipient of the 2022 ACS Francis P. Garvan–John M. Olin Medal Posted by: alemanem / October 20, 2022 October 20, 2022 Read Previous Dept of Energy Office of Science Summer Undergraduate Internships Read Next Virtual STEM Career Fair with the US Dept of State LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15

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Mathematics/Chemistry seminar this Wednesday 3/2 featuring Profs. Justin Lytle & Tom Edgar Posted by: yakelina / February 29, 2016 February 29, 2016 Read Previous Ramstad Scholarship Applications Invited 2016 Read Next Desserts and Demos 2016 on Thu. March 10th, 7 PM! LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer