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Publications “Food Chemistry: An Asynchronous Course Designed with Hands-On Experiments for Undergraduate General Education” A. M. Munro Journal of Chemical Education 100, 9, 3347-3354 (2023) DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00130 “The Primarily Undergraduate Nanomaterials Cooperative: A New Model for Supporting Collaborative Research at Small Institutions on a National Scale” S. M. Hughes, et al. ACS Nanoscience Au 1, 6-14 (2021). “Synthetic Approaches for Growing Zinc Sulfide and Zinc Selenide
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Scott Rogers, PhDDepartment of EnglishWordPress for Blogs and Portfolios Scott Rogers at desk in office. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) WordPress Product Website: wordpress.com Cost: FreeScott Rogers is an assistant professor in the English Department and primarily teaches courses related to writing, research, and professional communication. Because Composition Studies is so closely tied to the classroom, he spends a lot of time thinking about pedagogy, especially the unique challenges presented
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improvement of education for children. Her vocation enabled her to realize her life ambition, primarily, to work with children who had disabilities, and secondly, to work with children who were gifted. Shereen and the children loved one another because of her empathy with them. Often, upon entering a classroom, she would greet the instructor and then go directly to the children to talk with them. Award amount: Funding for this award will vary from year to year, but will have a range of $4,500 and up per
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earn their master’s degree and a Washington state teaching certificate. “I feel like all the professors really understood what it was like in the classroom,” said Cook, who teaches at Baker Middle School in Tacoma. “Education changes, students change, demographics change. But they stay current on best practices and research for the youth we are currently educating.” That’s by design, says Mary Jo Larsen, assistant dean of the university’s education department. “We are (primarily) face to face, not
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with the Broadway Center. (He’s since been promoted.) Utley considers the Broadway Center the heart of the arts in Tacoma. With programs in so many schools, it helps supplement kids’ educations with the art that often has been cut. Utley’s primary teaching focus is Improvisational Theater, primarily working with his students on “the improvisational mindset.” “It’s the complete acceptance of your own spontaneity, while committing to utilize everyone’s everlasting brilliant ideas,” Utley said
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are (primarily) face to face, not online,” she said, drawing a distinction between PLU’s graduate program and some others that feature more online coursework. “We are known for our faculty.” Many of them also supervise student teachers in the program, offering graduate students a chance to build professional relationships that can lead to employment. AN INTENSIVE YEAR PLU’s one-year Master of Arts in Education program runs from mid-June through the following June. Each cohort of graduate students
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eventually PhD, in some Economics field. Hayden McCartney, 2016Graduated with BA in Economics and BS in Financial Mathematics, Hayden is now a Yield Management Analyst in the Revenue Management department at Alaska Airlines. His economics degree applies directly to his job with Alaska. Sonja Schaefer, 2016After a whirlwind summer climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and researching Chinese investment in Ethiopia and fishing in Alaska, Sonja has settled down in Washington, D.C. interning for Congressman Visclosky
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graduation, Davis plans to begin a master’s and PhD program at University of British Columbia to study plant science — specifically how high-value horticulture crops are impacted by different environmental conditions. We caught up with her to reflect more on her PLU experience. Tell us about your capstone project? My capstone project was very much inspired by my passion for plant science, food security and agriculture. I completed my capstone project last spring, where I wrote a literature review
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. Beth Kraig 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? Read her story Beth Kraig, Professor of History in phased retirement, and one the first two openly queer faculty members at PLU. Brian Norman How do you move institutions towards living the values they claim to hold? Read his story Brian Norman ’99, student activist and American and African-American Literature scholar. Colleen Hacker How tough do you have to be to
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, social and ecological resilience Neuropsychology of resilience Resilience-focused policy and institutionalization Arts and self-expression (film, literature, testimony, etc.) and resilience “Seeding” resilience, literally and figuratively Theological, religious and inter-faith approaches to resilience Transitional Justice and Post-conflict resilience Vulnerability and resilience in the context of climate change 1 Luther, Cichetti and Becker. “The Construct of Resilience: A Critical Evaluation and
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