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  • Dance 2017: Innovation features PLU dancers working with guest and student choreographers exploring inventive themes through dance. The performances are on Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Eastvold Auditorium of Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. This year’s…

    theme of innovation is significant because it involves not being complacent and accepting the status quo in the world of dance. Innovation is the belief that it has not ‘all been done before’- there is new ground to cover in the art of communicating through dance, pushing through the comfort zone to try something new,” Winchester says. Winchester’s piece Home Movies engages modes of innovative storytelling, where imagination, improvisation and memory play an active role in the creative processes of

  • Clarissa Gines was one of the first students to graduate with PLU’s art history undergraduate degree in 2012. It wasn’t easy—she had a child during her senior year, and juggled parenthood with schoolwork and an internship at a Seattle-based art gallery. She then worked as…

    to Tacoma arts, culture, heritage, and science experiences by reducing barriers to access and expanding offerings, particularly for underserved youth. As the program coordinator, Gines helps update funding guidelines, builds out application processes, communicates with organizations, and helps distribute funding. Gines treasures being part of the arts and culture sector while advancing equity and access with a practical, problem-solving approach. “As we’re updating our application and updating

  • Many students want to know how governments are organized, how rules are made and how government influences the amount and distribution of social rewards.

    understanding of politics. The study of political science helps to prepare you for the exercise of your rights, duties and opportunities as citizens.  Courses in politics can lead you to fuller understanding of various areas such as American government institutions, legislative processes, foreign policy, international relations, public law and political theory. Many students see the value of combining an understanding of politics with other fields, such as the natural sciences, economics, business

  • South and Harstad communities are reserved for students who are 20 years of age or older (by September 1 for Fall Semester and February 1 for Spring Semester) or who have Junior (60 credits) or

    with one’s spouse/domestic partner Program + Learning OutcomesBy participating in Upper Division Student Communities, students will: Be able to identify academic and personal/professional resources at PLU that will help them navigate their next steps after PLU (e.g., job/graduate school application processes) Practice a more independent living experience in order to ease transition to life after living on-campus Create communities that demonstrate wellness and care for themselves and the world

  • Dance 2017: Innovation features PLU dancers working with guest and student choreographers exploring inventive themes through dance. The performances are on Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Eastvold Auditorium of Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. This year’s…

    theme of innovation is significant because it involves not being complacent and accepting the status quo in the world of dance. Innovation is the belief that it has not ‘all been done before’- there is new ground to cover in the art of communicating through dance, pushing through the comfort zone to try something new,” Winchester says. Winchester’s piece Home Movies engages modes of innovative storytelling, where imagination, improvisation and memory play an active role in the creative processes of

  • Gregory Peterson, Senior Capstone Seminar Controlled living anionic polymerization was employed to synthesize tetrablock copolymers in order to determine their compatibilizing ability in polymer

    sulfateLiliya Shcherbina, Senior Capstone Seminar Dimethyl carbonate (DMC), a benign chemical compound that acts as a versatile reactant may be a “greener” chemical reagent in the methylation of anilines, phenols, and carboxylic acids. Recent research supports that DMC is much safer reagent when compared to iodomethane and dimethyl sulfate in these processes. Thursday, May 6th, 2010 (Morken Room 132)1:50 pm - Tyrosine kinase inhibitors as selective chemotherapeutic agentsEdmund Valentin, Senior Capstone

  • Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | aumanaj@plu.edu | 253-535-8485 | Dr.

    communities of methane-oxidizing bacteria in Lake Washington sediment, focusing on techniques allowing for estimating population sizes of different subgroups of these bacteria. Since her arrival at PLU in the Fall of 2002, Dr. Auman has primarily taught introductory biology and microbiology courses. As a microbial ecologist, Dr. Auman’s professional interests focus on studying microbial communities in natural environments with the goal of understanding how the microbes contribute to global processes and

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  • The Office of the Provost is responsible for conducting course evaluations using the Teaching and Course Feedback form each Summer, Fall, J-Term, and Spring.

    platform.  While the Provost’s Office will retain copies of all course survey data from 2016 to the present, it will be stored in a raw data format (in Excel spreadsheets). You can request past course evaluation data (in raw data format) directly from the Provost’s Office (provost@plu.edu).  Course feedback surveys will run exactly as they have in the past, with dates and processes reflecting Faculty Handbook guidance. At the conclusion of each term, students will receive a direct email from provost

  • noun : a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject From the Greek symp-po-sium : a drinking party or convivial discussion, especially as held in ancient Greece after a banquet

    adversity.”1 The two-day conference will attempt to answer some of the following questions: What factors contribute to resilience? Are these factors intrinsic or extrinsic? Are there cultural, social, economic and environmental factors that can contribute to, or impede, the efforts of the most vulnerable to overcome adversity? Are individual, ecological and social resilience(s) interrelated? Can resilience be “built” or “learned”? What do natural processes teach us about resilience? How helpful is it to

  • PLU Faculty Sponsor | Tacoma MESA | aumanaj@plu.edu | 253-535-8485 | Dr.

    bacteria in Lake Washington sediment, focusing on techniques allowing for estimating population sizes of different subgroups of these bacteria. Since her arrival at PLU in the Fall of 2002, Dr. Auman has primarily taught introductory biology and microbiology courses. As a microbial ecologist, Dr. Auman’s professional interests focus on studying microbial communities in natural environments with the goal of understanding how the microbes contribute to global processes and what products the microbes make

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