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DataFest https://www.plu.edu/natural-sciences/datafest/

their peers. Analyses should communicate the teams’ insights, but must also frame those insights in a way that can be easily understood by experts and novices alike. Students from engineering, math, computer science, statistics, social science, and other fields have participated in the event. Why should you participate? DataFest is an opportunity to: work with a data set from an actual business or research study develop marketable experience cleaning and analyzing data sharpen your data analysis

Composing for the cannery: of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2013/04/01/composing-for-the-cannery-of-boxcars-rhinos-and-grapes/

I mean this was the real world. It gets wooly.” It was on this stretch that Youtz began discovering a compassion towards the global circumstance that would one day become manifest in the body of his work. In Katmandu, Youtz and Unsoeld landed a gig housesitting for John Seidensticker who was, at the time, conducting post-doctoral research on tigers and jaguars in the Tibetan backcountry. Seidensticker, who is now the head of the Conservation Ecology Center at the Smithsonian’s National

Dance Minor https://www.plu.edu/music-theatre-dance/dance-minor/

students with introductory study not available in the regular curriculum. The title will be listed on the student term-based record as DS: followed by the specific title designated by the student. (1 to 4) DANC 301 : Dance and Culture - ES, GE An examination of the history and culture of dance forms and choreographic methods from around the world. A seminar-based class that includes physical movement. (4) DANC 322 : Advanced Musical Theatre Dance Designed for intermediate/advanced students, this course

Dance Minor https://www.plu.edu/theatre-dance/dance-minor/

undergraduate students with introductory study not available in the regular curriculum. The title will be listed on the student term-based record as DS: followed by the specific title designated by the student. (1 to 4) DANC 301 : Dance and Culture - ES, GE An examination of the history and culture of dance forms and choreographic methods from around the world. A seminar-based class that includes physical movement. (4) DANC 322 : Advanced Musical Theatre Dance Designed for intermediate/advanced students

Learning Outcomes https://www.plu.edu/math/learning-outcomes/

: Develop collaborative skills, independence, perseverance; have experience with open-ended inquiry. B. Application: Be able to apply mathematical concepts to concrete situations. Learning Outcomes for Mathematics Minor Mathematics Major LO’s 1 and 2. Learning Outcomes for Statistics Minor (Adapted from the ASA’s 2014 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistical Science.) Develop novice-level statistical thinking, particularly with respect to linking appropriate inferences to study

REU Program with the University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Polymer Science and Engineering https://www.plu.edu/chemistry/news/2019/12/20/reu-program-with-the-university-of-southern-mississippis-school-of-polymer-science-and-engineering/

development. Scientists will need to work in increasingly complex, interdisciplinary teams that address not only the technical challenges but also the environmental and global impacts of their research. The REU site at USM will develop sustainable approaches to polymer materials development to meet critical societal needs. Participants will be engaged in fundamental research projects that span the complex, interdisciplinary facets of materials sustainability, including polymer synthesis from renewable

Sights, sounds and tweets from move-in day at PLU https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2016/09/02/move-in-2016/

. Shout out to RHA for a great NSO @plurha pic.twitter.com/ezhcKuL2i5 — Patricia Krise (@pattylkrise) September 2, 2016 Read Previous University Conference launches the 2016-17 academic year, a time dedicated to powerful introspection institution-wide Read Next PLU’s provost plans to improve faculty diversity, visibility and accessibility of campus research COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a

Hypothes.is on Sakai https://www.plu.edu/itech/hypothesis/

Overview Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that can be used to facilitate online class discussions and group work, annotate lectures and syllabi, share and organize research, take notes, and more. Hypothesis is integrated into PLU’s Sakai Learning Management System. Students and instructors can annotate webpages or PDFs with comments, formulas, highlights, and tags without leaving Sakai. It can be used for entire classes, breakout groups, and individual users. The Hypothesis tool is

Step 2: Consult https://www.plu.edu/hprb/students/step-2/

Step 2: Consult with a Faculty SupervisorStudents must have the approval of a Faculty Supervisor in order to submit an HPRB proposal through our online system, Mentor. Your Faculty Supervisor should be willing to consult with you on: appropriate research topics, methods, materials, and procedures norms and best practices for research in your discipline aspects of your project requiring special care and planning (e.g., work with certain populations, collection of sensitive or protected data, use

Kara Atkinson ’23, transfer history major and former military linguist, on her PLU experience https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/kara-atkinson/

with minors in religion and Holocaust and genocide studies, Atkinson’s passion for research, academia, and higher education developed at PLU through her collaborative research with professors, her tenure as president of Phi Alpha Theta (PLU’s history honors society), and her work as PLU’s Vet Corps Navigator. What led you down the path of becoming an Arabic linguist? Out of the jobs available to me as a woman in the military in 2014, becoming a linguist was one of the things that I was most