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President Allan Belton. “In the months and years to come PLU and Yad Vashem will be working together to provide robust opportunities for students and community members from all over the Puget Sound region to engage in the critical work of Holocaust education and remembrance.” The ultimate source for Holocaust education, documentation and research, Yad Vashem’s integrated approach to Holocaust education and remembrance incorporates meaningful educational initiatives, groundbreaking research and
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February 28, 2008 English professor receives prestigious award Assistant Professor of English Rona Kaufman was named a recipient of a 2008 Graves Award in the Humanities. The award is given every two years to eight to 10 faculty members from private, liberal-arts colleges in California, Washington and Oregon. Recipients must exhibit exemplary skill and enthusiasm as teachers, and use the award stipend for a research project that will enhance their skill in the classroom. “It’s an award for good
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University of Washington PREP Posted by: alemanem / December 11, 2023 December 11, 2023 The University of Washington Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) is currently accepting applications for the 2020-2021 Academic year. The goal of the program is to assist candidates from underrepresented minority, physically disabled, and disadvantaged groups who already hold (or will by June 2024) baccalaureate degrees optimize their preparation for and successful completion of graduate
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Astronomy at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Strickland is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification with Gérard Mourou, her PhD supervisor at the time. They published this Nobel-winning research in 1985 when Strickland was a PhD student at the University of Rochester. CUWiP will bring together successful female physicists and over 2,000 undergraduate women in physics to highlight career opportunities for women in physics and the contributions of
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October 6, 2008 “The Shack” author says he never meant to write a book. William P. Young said he first wrote “The Shack,” for his children, and didn’t think anything more of it, until friends and family encouraged him to publish the book, which he did, with the help of friends, some savings and some credit cards. He thought it would take years to get rid of the first 10,000 books stacked in that friend’s garage. But now, as the sales of the books are closing in on the 4 million mark and the
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UT Southwestern Medical Center (SURF) Posted by: alemanem / October 6, 2020 October 6, 2020 Want to learn more about UT Southwestern Medical Center Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF)? SURF is one of five research intensive programs offered at UT Southwestern. Complete details can be found at www.utsouthwestem.edu/SURF. This website also provides links to: SURF-Stem Cell, Quantitative and Physical Science (QP)-SURF, QP-SURF-Chemistry, and the Summer Undergraduate Research
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June 28, 2010 Even after graduation, a way to stay involved – 65 years later By Chris Albert When Annabelle Birkestol ’45 was deciding which college to go to, her mother gave her an offer she couldn’t refuse. Check out Pacific Lutheran University and, if you go there, I’ll pay for it, Birkestol was told. It was also a good fit for Birkestol, who describes her experience on campus as one of the happiest times of her life. Annabelle Birkestol ’45. Plus, she found her calling as a teacher. That
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research and development department. He credits his professors in the PLU biology department, particularly Mary Ellard-Ivey and Ann Auman, for being able to move so fluidly – and quickly – up the ranks. “My profs had a very similar view: No matter what we were studying, they would always bring it back to the bigger picture,” Manso said. “They would put everything we were learning in context, quite literally saying, ‘Here’s how this will look in the workplace.’” That ability to take scientific concepts
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developed using the Stat232/Psyc242 labs developed for Excel and SPSS. This spring she plans to work with the Psi Chi chapter to offer these lessons to her peers (or other faculty). She is currently drafting a book proposal called, “Teaching Myself R as an Undergraduate (and then Teaching my Professors)”. This was a very unique PLU teaching/experience, and we’re excited to see how it progresses this spring. Read Previous Passion for solving unanswered questions drives PLU alum’s research career Read
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You Ask. We Answer. Can PLU help me become an engineer? Posted by: shortea / May 3, 2024 May 3, 2024 Want to become an engineer?Did you know that PLU’s dual degree engineering program has formal agreements for priority admission with Columbia University in New York City and Washington University in St. Louis, two nationally recognized schools of engineering dual degree engineering? In this session, hear from Dr. Bret Underwood, Chair of Physics, Dr. Bogomil Gerganov, Dual Degree Program
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