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humanities, connections encouraged by the interdisciplinary arm of the contest. The Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications also hosts the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)—the “pure math” side of the competition. This year the simultaneous contests drew 20,000 teams and played out at thousands of locations across twenty-one countries. At PLU, the ultramarathon-style drama unfolds in the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, where, this year Duffy, Madeline and Matthew listened to the

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happened. “It got me very angry,” he said. “My survival finally had a purpose.” Since then, Friedman has continued to share his stories and those of his fellow survivors. He is founder and chairman of the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, and the author of the memoir, “I’m No Hero: Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor.” “We must not allow the memory of what happened to six million Jews disappear,” he said. “As a survivor, I desire and long to forget what our lives were like during the

, included four other colleges and universities. All five will be featured in the NAFSA report Internationalizing the Campus 2009: Profiles of the Success at Colleges and Universities, which will be published this fall. The awardees will be recognized at a May 29 ceremony in Los Angeles. “For me, it’s a significant validation of the work that people have been doing on campus for a long time,” said Professor Neal Sobania, executive director of the Wang Center for International Programs. “And that’s to

-walled laboratory at the Rieke Science Center on lower campus. Rebuilding the north side of Rieke to support the unique device – including Professor Dean Waldow’s “science on display” glass enclosure – brought the NMR cost to more than $1 million, all of which was paid for by sources outside the university. Eventually, the group sees not only students using the machine for student-faculty research, but local community and four-year colleges bringing samples over as well. The chemistry faculty members

limonene are almost identical, except for the fact that their building blocks connect to each other in slightly different ways. The results are molecules that are structurally similar, but their scent is radically different: Pinene and limonene smell like pine and citrus. “Nature is using the same building blocks, but in slightly different configurations,” he said. This type of instruction doesn’t just happen in the chemistry classrooms of Rieke Science Center. It is also happening in PLU’s dining

, then he heard about the second plane. He hopped on one of the last trains to make it near Ground Zero and was near the centers as the first tower imploded and fell. He watched as people, including the mayor and his entourage, flee from the dust cloud, “Their command center had been destroyed,” he said. People opened up shops to get their colleagues out of the dust, and offered up water and food free of charge. “I saw New York at its best,” he said. He was soon asked to have his agency lead the

. It gets into your blood,” Wells mused, now going on 10 years at PLU. In that time, Wells has fed his passion by shaping future journalists, creating the award-winning MediaLab, and contributing to efforts to create a media studies center at PLU. The MediaLab idea was born in 2004. The best and brightest media students in journalism, video, photography, public relations, and other disciplines have since scored over a dozen awards as well as one Emmy. MediaLab students have traveled into areas

PLU Archaeologist Visits Some VERY Old Friends Posted by: Zach Powers / May 1, 2015 Image: Left, the shaft of a tomb is opened for investigation by the PLU archaeological expedition. Center, Ryan near Tomb 60. Right, the expedition works outside a tomb under a canopy. (Photos Courtesy Denis Whitfill, PLU Valley of the Kings Project) May 1, 2015 By Evan Heringer '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 1, 2015)- Howard Carter may have discovered King Tut’s tomb in 1922, but the Valley

. He was at the center of Lute Vote, a campus-wide effort to increase civic engagement among PLU students. He helped register more than 300 voters by raising awareness in various government and politics courses, as well as organizing community-based events such as Parkland Rocks The Vote. Beiermann also partnered with PLU Concierge for a Get Out The Vote Drive — making it easier to send mail-in ballots — and organized political forums and debate watch parties on campus. Beiermann credits