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known as green millet, the grain is a high-protein food staple and more nutritionally dense than rice. The National Science Foundation and other funding sources support the project. “Although millet is a culturally and nutritionally important food in Asia and Africa, it’s not commonly grown in western agriculture, so there’s not a lot of research,” Laurie-Berry says. A similar process of genetic experimentation refined rice production around 50 years ago. “After we figure out which genes control

students in analyzing lab-generated mutant seed populations in partnership with Danforth. Students care for the plants, recording the number of seedheads produced and any branches or unusual seedheads or leaf shapes. At the semester’s end, students collect seeds from each millet plant to mail back to Danforth, along with their findings.Expanding knowledge and opportunityThe Mutant Millets project refines Setaria viridis, a small, hardy grass that grows wild throughout North America. Otherwise known as

are some of my best, and yet, there is so much still to learn that I feel I will never truly be done with them. As an artist, my work is an extension of myself, and it is constantly in flux.” Sarah Henderson, another late-night-Ingram-inhabitor, is also in the throws of finishing her capstone artworks. Henderson received first place in the fall Student Juried Exhibition for her sculpture entitled Just Be. That piece, which consists of a goat strung between a balloon and an anvil (all made of

presentation. The intentional design and delivery of this program affords graduates a competitive edge for various employment/opportunities in: pharmaceutical, biomedical, and biotechnology industries. other sectors such as governmental regulatory bodies. advanced academic pursuits such as PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences or starting a professional healthcare program such as medicine or pharmacy with a leg up. See the MSPS Degree Brochure-PUSOP 2024 with more information  Interested individuals can also

these systems at their source.One way that we strive to do this work every day at PLU is by helping to ensure that all students have access to a purposeful, transformative education.  PLU’s mission—to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care, for others, for their communities, and for the earth—is hardwired in Lutheran higher education’s core belief that study in the liberal arts is a liberating experience, freeing the learner from ignorance and a life focused