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Nuclear Engineering Science Laboratory Synthesis Programs at ORNL- Spring or Summer 2018 Posted by: alemanem / November 14, 2017 November 14, 2017 Student and Alumni Research and Technical Opportunities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – Oak Ridge, TN  Appointments for Spring and Summer 2018! Apply now to the Nuclear Engineering Science Laboratory Synthesis Programs (NESLS) Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) – Spring or Summer 2018 Must apply at https://www.zintellect.com

March 19, 2009 What would be awesome? By Steve Hansen It would be easy to say that, over his career, PLU graduate Peter Parsons has found himself in the right place at the right time. He was on the Xbox development team when there were fewer than a dozen people working on the project. He was product manager for some of the early groundbreaking video games like Flight Simulator and Age of Empires. He had a hand in the “Where the Hell is Matt?” video going viral. Oh, and by the way, he also led

June 14, 2012 Associate Professor of Art and Design Jp Avila reads “Into the Beautiful North” by Luis Alberto Urrea. Editor’s note: Luis Alberto Urrea, author of “Into the Beautiful North” will speak on campus at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 in Lagerquist Concert Hall. The book you need to read this summer By Steve Hansen   When first-year students showed-up to campus this June for the class registration sessions called Charting Your Course, they left with more than course catalogs and

July 11, 2013 reThinking how sustainability is taught at PLU using a novel approach at reDesign House. The art of sustainability By Chris Albert Across the street from the Martin J. Neeb Center sits an old house – not built to the exacting LEED environmental standards of Neeb, but being remodeled as an expression of the possibilities of sustainable practices at PLU. At first glance, it’s difficult to see the differences between this house and the many other ramblers that dot the neighborhood

Transition to Turnitin Feedback Studio Posted by: nordgrle / May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 By Layne Nordgren Turnitin provides originality- and plagiarism-checking for student papers and includes a set of online tools for faculty to provide in-context feedback for students. For PLU courses, Turnitin can be enabled as an option when creating a Sakai Assignment. On June 3, 2017, PLU transitioned to the new Turnitin interface called Feedback Studio. Feedback Studio combines Turnitin Originality

First MSK Graduate Class: Delaney Salter Posted by: chaconac / November 16, 2021 November 16, 2021 Delaney Salter, a graduate of both PLU’s bachelor’s and master’s degree in kinesiology, shared about what she has learned about improving the lives of others through applied kinesiology. Reflection from Delaney Salter, '21My name is Delaney Salter. I graduated with my bachelor’s at PLU in 2019. My major was kinesiology with a concentration in exercise science. I remember completing an interest

loved playing the Suzuki songs, but I also loved to sing and sang in a group like the Tacoma Youth Chorus (the Northwest Boychoir) as well. I also took piano lessons from my mother, and later from a local high school student named Rick Steves (yes, he grew up to be THE Rick Steves!). I loved all of these things (and continue to), but by the time I was finishing grade school I knew I had to make a choice. I gave violin my all, but learned a bit of guitar, and occasionally sang in choirs. When I was

April 11, 2008 Holocaust survivor shares his story Holocaust survivor Henry Friedman recounted his experience under the unspeakable horror of Nazism and stressed the importance of sharing survival stories at the 12th annual Raphael Lemkin Essay Awards Banquet. The banquet also featured the work of student essayists, who submitted papers on topics related to genocide. The winners, senior Ethan Jennings and junior Kristen McCabe, were recognized during the banquet program. “I’m not a scholar or a

October 24, 2012 Robert N. Bellah, the Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, was the lecturer for the annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture, Oct. 24. (Photo by John Struzenberg ’15) Adapting to the advancements of modernity By Katie Scaff ’13 How do we as a species adapt to a rate of change that no biological species before has ever faced? This was the question Robert N. Bellah, one of the foremost sociologists of religion in the world, posed to

January 28, 2013 Grad lands dream job By Emilie Thoreson ’15 After travelling to Macedonia on a Fulbright Student Fellowship and working for the National Albanian American Council, Kelly Ryan ’10 has landed his dream job — working for the State Department. Ryan made the trip to Skopje, Macedonia shortly after graduation to carry out his Fulbright. There, he analyzed the dialogue process of the Nansen Dialogue Center and its efforts to promote linguistic and ethnic integration in schools. “Right