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. Aidan Donnelly ’25 | Chemistry major with minors in biology and Hispanic studies The importance of collaboration “A memorable task that stood out during summer research was working with our collaborators. It was an incredible experience to meet and work with other professors and students in different fields of study and connect their research to ours as well as the overarching project.” Read Previous Margaret Murdoch ’24: Contributing to a cure at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Read Next PLU alumna Shelby
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REU Program with the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Polymer Science and Engineering Posted by: nicolacs / December 20, 2019 December 20, 2019 The REU Site: Polymer Innovation for a Sustainable Future at The University of Southern Mississippi School of Polymers Science and Engineering was launched in the summer of 2017 under National Science Foundation award DMR-1659340. The grand challenges of the 21st century will require new and sustainable approaches to polymer materials
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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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critical thinking, theory building, research methods, statistical analysis and using psychology in human context. The Bachelor of Science degree also is an excellent degree option for students with an interest in pre-medicine (including [psychiatry), behavioral health, cognitive neuroscience, or neuropsychology. Read Previous PLU’s Lathiena Nervo discusses her work and being named one of the “1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America” Read Next Q&A with Biology Major Brandon Nguyen ’21 LATEST POSTS
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, examining the way gender intersects with their identities as ultrarunners and their beliefs about the sacredness of nature. She is applying gender theorist Judith Butler’s concepts of gender performativity. Butler argues that gender is created through performance in a given time and place and involves the continual rejection or acceptance of gender norms. The five women Professor O’Brien chose to focus on both adhere to and reject gender norms, within the context of the historically masculine activity
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, an estimated 25 to 35 percent of American Indian children had been separated from their families. Blending history and heartbreaking family stories, award-winning historian Margaret D. Jacobs, the Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, examines this phenomenon—and its global dimensions—in her latest book, A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World. On Wednesday, Feb. 25, Jacobs will discuss her book, and her
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April 12, 2012 Earth Day – Connecting to Everything on Earth: Its Land, Waters, and Peoples (Plant, Animal, and Human) PLU’s 2012 Earth Day lecture will be by Michael Pavel at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Pavel is a professor of education studies at the University of Oregon, he carries the traditional name of ChiXapkaid and is an enrolled member of the Skokomish Tribe Nation. He is an honored 2007 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award finalist for his work as
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double major in math and Spanish. “There was just no way I could pass that up,” Pfaff said. “Math and Spanish? That’s who I am!” Every student has a different reason for wanting to study away. And for every one of those students, and every one of those reasons, PLU makes it easy. There’s a reason, after all, why more than 40 percent of PLU students (versus 3 percent nationally) study away at some time in their academic career. PLU has an office, called the Wang Center for Global Education that, among
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. JOB HUNT BUFFERING Ronquillo grew up in Ketchikan, Alaska in a close Filipino family. He grew up playing music and initially thought he would pursue it as a career. It was his love of music that brought him to Pacific Lutheran University. “I saw that PLU had an awesome music program, so I was like ‘Yeah, I think I’m going to PLU,’ ” he said. “But then I decided to change my major to computer science because I just realized that I like making games and websites. For some reason, sitting down at the
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Center Stage: The $20 million Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts officially opens in October Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / August 2, 2013 August 2, 2013 Jeff Clapp ’89, PLU artistic director of theater, PLU theater program undergraduate, son of a theater professor, likes to tell a story of his tenure interview. There, he was asked: What is the strength of the PLU theater program? “We sort of teach the MacGyver school of theater,” he told his interviewers. “We arm students with a
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