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writing content for the nonprofit’s website. Her beat was technological solutions and global education. She wrote pieces about artificial intelligence as a solution to poverty, and the education of refugees to name a few. This sort of research-based, nonfiction writing is Hurtt’s comfort zone. In her junior year she switched majors from biology to English literature, making one of the biggest jumps between academic disciplines. But her experience in analytical writing was one of the reasons she

the new artificial athletic field at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7 vs. Trinity Lutheran and on Saturday, PLU football hosts rival sister school CLU at Sparks Stadium at 12:30 p.m. Two noted speakers will come to PLU as part of the inauguration festivities. Luis Alberto Urrea, author of “Into the Beautiful North,” will be on campus on Sept. 13 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss his novel that was the focus of PLU’s Common Reading Program this year. Larry Rasmussen, professor emeritus of social ethics at Union

glistening in the distance, and the evergreen firs looming just south of the soccer field. And the grass was green. Really green. Artificial-green green. For the women’s soccer players who were the first athletes to officially compete on the synthetic-surface sports field, that color couldn’t have been more beautiful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lklxHZPURw The lighted multi-purpose field, on which the men’s and women’s soccer teams will play their home matches, is just one part of a long list of

gathering. “He’s going to be asking, in intelligence gathering, are there circumstances where it’s okay to use torture?” Kaurin said. Kaurin will be looking at the rules soldiers follow when deciding whether to torture, or not. And yes, there are rules on this, she said. “I will be looking at it logistically, from a soldier’s perspective,” she said. “Is there a way to torture ethically, consistent with the rules of war?” The Geneva Convention expressly forbids the use of torture, she said. But the Bush

dinner one night at the sanctuary when he decided to ask the 79-year-old primatologist whether she liked parrots. The answer, of course, was yes. She had wanted one as a child after seeing Dr. Dolittle and its macaw, Polynesia. Around the campfire, Goodall told stories of the parrots’ intelligence, describing an African Grey Parrot in New York City with a vocabulary of 1,600 words—not far behind the average working vocabulary of most people. As for the fate of the 17 birds that finally—literally—flew

appreciation for the wonders of animals and their complex behaviors. Also, the new field of cognitive ethology, which studies animal mentality as a kind of behavior, is changing our view of the animal mind. While it is a field with many challenges and controversies, we seem to be in the process of an almost revolutionary advance in our understanding of animal intelligence. Photo taken during a J-term course in Ecuador in 2015 by Quinn Huelsbeck (‘16) A good overview to this field can be found in Colin Allen

eventually led to sharing the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize with the group of individuals on International Campaign to Ban Landmines. His 1997 trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina with Diana, Princess of Wales, was the event he credits with putting the spotlight on the plight of hundreds of thousands of victims wounded by mines worldwide. White remembers the former princess, who died a year after he met her, as a woman of natural charisma and keen intuition and intelligence. “It was crazy to be hit in the face with that

Genius” on March 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Karen Hille Phillips Center at PLU.  Baumeister is co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, a bio-inspired consultancy offering biological intelligence consulting, professional training, and inspirational speaking. Her work has been critical to the biomimicry movement, establishing it as a new and innovative practice and a philosophy to meet the world’s sustainability challenges.  She has helped more than 100 companies consult the natural world for elegant and sustainable

sculpture, we brainstormed connotations associated with a cup of noodles, specifically its cheapness and the poor quality of its taste. For the noodles, we utilized gray styrofoam tubing to display the disgusting, artificial quality of the noodles. The grayness of the noodles makes it appear that it’s rotting or sewage sludge. The brown pennies scattered across the noodles show how underpriced the food is. What you eat is what you pay for, in a sense. Our sculpture creates awareness of how unhealthy

metacognition and learning; the use of self-assessment to increase metacognition; and student theories of intelligence, learning, and failure. Siegesmund is an alumnus of the National Science Foundation Biology Scholars Research Residency and has received PLU faculty excellence awards in service (2019-20) and teaching (204-15). “During her time at PLU, Dr. Siegesmund has proven herself to be an incredibly dedicated, passionate and effective teacher,” said Chair of Biology Matt Smith. “She challenges her