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funds supplemental salary for the Mayer Chair, research and travel related to scholarship, enhanced library resources, student-faculty research fellowship opportunities, coordination of the annual Lemkin Student Essay Contest and the Lemkin Lecture (named for Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term “genocide”), as well as the annual Holocaust conference. At first glance, PLU might seem to be an unlikely place to be a center of Holocaust study and scholarship. But really, it embraces the Lutheran
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PLU experiences prepared you for this opportunity? Getting involved with my professors has really helped me get to where I am now. I applied for the astronomy research at PLU last year, but didn’t get it. So, I had to ask if I could volunteer and see what they were working on over the summer. They happily invited me to check out what they were doing. Working with them really closely and being able to go in at any time to ask questions has really been helpful. Not to mention my friends at PLU, who
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this recognition. Published by Oxford University Press, Wilkin and Hunter’s work is the first-ever edition of selected translations of Dupin’s massive project, developed from manuscript drafts. What’s the origin story of this book? At first, I had no intention of editing – much less translating – Dupin’s work. At first, I just wanted to write an article about Dupin with PLU French and Global Studies major Sonja Ruud ‘12, who had held a Kelmer-Roe Student-Faculty Research Fellowship with me. The
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other students of color, at PLU. How can faculty contribute to students’ sense of belonging? Experiences with faculty are some of the strongest ways to support student belonging. National research has shown that, for all students, “significant contact” with faculty in the first few weeks of a semester increases persistence. Other research shows that interactions with faculty members are especially important for the learning experiences and overall academic satisfaction of students of color. What can
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much podcasting is being done at PLU. They believe this has given students an experience to a whole other level of collaboration and commitment. Creating podcasts challenges a student’s comfort level with technology as they study what it means to explore the humanities in a digital context. Dr. Ramos hopes more Humanities professors will consider incorporating technology into their classrooms and their research. She believes that new methods and concepts can be created by exploring the different
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specifically how tigers lap up liquids – as part of a PLU capstone project. Two years ago, physics major Matt Hubbard ’13 became intrigued by the subject when he encountered research taking place at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which analyzed the roughness and size of a tongue and its relation to water-column pull and strength. “I liked the fact that you could take a field of complex mechanics and relate it, in a tangible way, to an everyday occurrence,” Hubbard said. He worked on his project for
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important, research is important, service is important. That is true here. It is not true in a lot of places.” Young believes the solution lies in the way we approach teaching future scholars. “Our mechanisms for deliberations are really broken,” Young says. “We’re given a platform and we’re given cultural authority because of our expertise and we’re only using it with each other and not really to better our world or our local community.” Young explains that it is difficult for scholars to get exposure
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