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Third Rail Inquiry: Learning, In, Through, and For CommunityThe field of rhetoric and composition is sometimes misunderstood as one centered on teaching writers how to “fix” texts once ideas have been selected, produced, or discovered: first we think, then we write, then we revise. Once we have a moderately readable draft, our inquiry has come to an end. We just need to “clean it up”—and at this point, the writing teacher steps up with resources, strategies, and rules. In contrast to this
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applied to real-world policy and business problems? The PLU economics department equips students with expertise in economics and its applications in microeconomics, macroeconomics, development, trade, international, and environmental economics.Looking back, what does the trip mean to you now? All the knowledge I learned and reapplied makes me feel like a more global citizen. I went in not knowing anyone on the trip. The friends I left with, I still talk with and hang out with on a regular basis.Tell
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students in STEM, but it will also allow us to better integrate PLU resources and build new structures to support these students’ success.” The grant, funded by the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, will be awarded over a five-year period. It will provide scholarships and enhanced support for students who meet the criteria for federal Pell grants, with a particular focus on transfer and commuter students. Sixty percent of the funds will provide
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electrochemical capacitance of 40 + 11 11 Fg-1, and the inverse opal 11 + 13 13 Fg-1. Future experiments will focus on closing the gap in surface area and making the pore geometries of the inverse opals more reproducible. 1:50 pm - Determining a Binding Coefficient of CdSe Nanocrystals with NMRJoshua Siverson, Senior Capstone Seminar Current literature suggests that a broadening in NMR peaks for ligand on CdSe nanocrystals is caused by the rapid association and disassociation of the ligand onto the surface
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Tacoma, Washington. Featured Programs: PLU also offers programs hosted in conjunction with other universities through consortia in which PLU participates. Featured programs are located in England and Spain. Approved Programs: PLU students participate in the Gateway and Featured Programs listed above every year. However, sometimes a student’s particular academic goals are better served by a different program. Through study abroad program providers, PLU offers an array of semester and year-long study
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By:Rhiannon Berg '18 May 3, 2018 0 Students connect with alumni to get a glimpse inside Amazon https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/05/students-alumni-amazon-cover-1024x313.jpg 1024 313 Rhiannon Berg '18 Rhiannon Berg '18 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/05/rhiannon-berg.jpg May 3, 2018 May 17, 2018 Students connect with alumni to get a glimpse inside Amazon “There’s something magical about stepping into a workplace
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that the best way to learn about the world is to explain it to other people. After I started working with student newspapers in junior high and high school, I developed a deep desire to tell other people’s stories. I believe that storytelling is what separates humans from other species, and everyone has an interesting story to tell. I love being the one to tell those stories. What did being awarded Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” mean to you? In my young career, I’ve been so
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foundation in Chinese language, culture, and history, and an opportunity to focus on the religious-philosophical world view and the economic structure of China. Economics The Pacific Lutheran University Economics department offers a multitude of ways to study the field of economics. Are you interested in understanding how choices made individually and collectively affect issues such as immigration, health care, environmental issues, or income inequality? English The study of English offers excellent
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break from her busy day as senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle. “It was amazing on campus, and it was wonderful,” she said. On campus “it just felt like home, it was friendly, people smiled…it wasn’t what I had experienced my last six years in junior high and high school.” Her time at PLU, Tachibana adds, was simply a time to grow up. PLU’s nursing program was largely self-paced then, and taught her discipline and focus. “That is
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. I think understanding and patience, everybody is very stressed, not only here at work with what we’re dealing with but with what they’re dealing with at home or other situations that impact life. PLU: Are there particular activities or communities you find yourself leaning on to stay leveled and take care of yourself? Tachibana: Well, for my own self-care, I try to focus on the things that I am able to partake in and do. My husband and I continue to engage in that in our faith communities and
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