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Notes on Design-Centered Innovation at Pacific Lutheran University Posted by: halvormj / January 26, 2018 January 26, 2018 By Michael Halvorson. Halvorson is director of Innovation Studies at Pacific Lutheran University.   Design has become an integral component of the innovation process. Leading businesses such as Amazon, Apple, Nike, Disney, Dyson, and Airbnb are all recognized for their award-winning designs that strive to communicate the benefits of products to users and meet actual

throughout my time at PLU and during the application process to medical school after graduation. I attribute my development as a scientist to Dr. Nervo. I spent two summers researching in her lab, learning an incredible amount, and having a lot of fun. Specific skills such as reading journal articles and interpreting dense figures have helped greatly in medical school. Dave Harvey is one of the biggest reasons I loved rowing at PLU. His coaching helped me develop confidence and approach challenges with

, she told her mom: “I’m going to be a neurosurgeon!” In the following years, her decision was cemented by books she read in middle school classrooms, biology classes she took in high school, and eventually, the teachers and mentors she met at Pacific Lutheran University. Now, the Bonney Lake, Washington native has graduated and earned a prestigious Fulbright research grant — a national award that only 20 percent of applicants receive after a rigorous, year-long application process. In January, she

says. “We saw an aspect of the starship design process that secretly linked back to our experience on Earth — what a life cycle in a mostly closed system, open only to sunlight and its energy, looks like. We got a better feel for the balance and delicacy of life.” Like Helmer, it was during this portion of the class that Rae Hyra ’22 realized that maybe designing a starship was not the sole purpose of the class. Hyra recalls that, at first, she was scared she’d be the least smart person in the room

June 15, 2009 Perspective: Rethinking the global citizen The field of Subaltern Studies came into existence to address a perceived problem with the way that existing scholarly paradigms in anthropology, Latin American studies, and many other fields, had understood the “objects” of study: people in cultures other than those of the scholar. Subaltern Studies sought to engage the subaltern as an ally and participant in the academic process. The communities being studied in this way, at least

presidential election: American forces were there to help provide security for voters and to protect the election process from disruption by Taliban fighters. “We would always joke on a regular basis, ‘Oh, we are going to preserve democracy today,’ but on that day, I really felt like we had,” Shumaker said. “That was a really special day for me.” While he was deployed, Shumaker’s second daughter was born. “It was harder on my wife, but she got through it,” Shumaker said. “She was one of my heroes.” Second