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By Genny Boots ’18 Kate Hoyt with reviewing student work in a group critique at PLU, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) When Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young started teaching at Pacific Lutheran University 10 years ago, she and Jp Avila, associate professor of art and design, had talked about starting a visual communication program. A decade has passed and now that idea is a reality. PLU and the School of Arts and Communication premiered their new visual

So You Want to Be an Optometrist?Optometrists are health care providers who examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases and disorders of the visual system. Optometrists are responsible for examining patients, diagnosing eye and vision problems, testing patients’ depth and color perception, and testing patients’ ability to coordinate and focus their eyes. They also prescribe contact lenses and glasses, treat eye problems like glaucoma, and refer patients to other doctors. To practice as an

So You Want to Be an Optometrist?Optometrists are health care providers who examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases and disorders of the visual system. Optometrists are responsible for examining patients, diagnosing eye and vision problems, testing patients’ depth and color perception, and testing patients’ ability to coordinate and focus their eyes. They also prescribe contact lenses and glasses, treat eye problems like glaucoma, and refer patients to other doctors. To practice as an

The LightboardThe Lightboard from Instructional Technologies is a tool that can be used to create written or visual demonstrations for instructional videos. It functions like a see-through whiteboard; you write on one side of it, and a camera records you from the other side. The Lightboard is a large piece of glass enclosed in a frame that has LEDs embedded into it. The LEDs illuminate the writing which makes it stand out and look like it’s floating. One of the main uses of the Lightboard is to

2020 Physics Capstone SymposiumJoin the Physics Department online to hear the senior capstone presentations. Maddie Boe “Optical Trapping: A Visual Exploration” Claire Hartwig-Alberg “Reviewing a Coastal Environment Change Experiment Using Wave Measurement Sensors” Chris McGraw “Building an Acoustic Levitation Device” William Senseman “Studies on Implementing a Solar Panel Array at PLU” Noah Stead “Bessel Function Solutions for the Shape of a Spinning Chain” Thomas Tamanaha “Moving Eddy Current

year? Submissions will be open from December 2024 to Febuary 2025 (more specific dates to come.) Students can submit up to three pieces in any of four genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry, and Visual arts.  Note that Saxifrage will not publish more than 3 pieces total for any one student. Requirements for submissions: Fiction, Nonfiction, & Poetry: Maximum 1500 words per piece. Visual Art: No specific requirements. Written work must be submitted as a Word or Google Doc.  Visual art must be