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University Center. This event will feature research projects from the three divisions of the College of Arts and Sciences—Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. The posters, articles and videos on display will provide a window onto activities that are at the core of Pacific Lutheran University’s mission: scholarship and student learning. These projects make visible what too often is invisible: the intellectual activity that is central to discovery, interpretation and artistic production

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—and at least four of those seven medieval liberal arts are what we would now call scientific. We have a popular misunderstanding in the United States that the liberal arts subjects are only the humanities and social sciences, and even some universities establish structures that suggest that the liberal arts do not include the sciences. So, we need to emphasize to potential students and others that a liberally educated person must know the sciences and be able to think scientifically to solve

, since junior high and high school, during Running Start, and well into my community college years, I had frequently used the PLU library for research and personal enrichment. As a result, I began to wonder what a it would be like to be a student of the university that this library belonged to and, as such, I have come to enjoy knowing what it means to be a student such as that. My PLU experience: My experience at PLU is two-fold; for one who majors in both the Humanities and the Social Sciences must

sponsoring organization for the Simon Awards will be with us at Opening Convocation to present the award to our entire community. Academic excellence is the direct product of faculty research and scholarship and, in just the past year, division of humanities faculty published 6 books, 65 articles, 25 essays and poems, and made 120 public presentations, while natural science faculty published over 30 articles and earned six research grants totaling over $250 thousand.  In the social sciences, faculty

, professor of chemistry, received another in a long series of Natural Sciences Foundation grants–this one for $98,000 for his research in polymer chemistry. Archaeologist Don Ryan, a PLU alumnus and a faculty fellow in humanities, published “Beneath the Sands of Egypt” to critical and popular acclaim. These are just a few examples of faculty scholarship, to which one can add the dozens of performances by our music faculty, creative works by our faculty in art and theater, as well as the contemporary

question, the people I met, and the opportunities all led me to PLU, my second home. My PLU experience: I was one of the lucky few who met their best friends in their orientation group. I found this solid group of friends to encourage me through college. I worked on campus at the concierge desk and the office of Humanities. I was a Resident Assistant in Harstad Hall, President of the Christian club on campus For the King, and helped facilitate a community dialogue project with ASPLU. I studied away in