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Transition to Turnitin Feedback Studio Posted by: nordgrle / May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 By Layne Nordgren Turnitin provides originality- and plagiarism-checking for student papers and includes a set of online tools for faculty to provide in-context feedback for students. For PLU courses, Turnitin can be enabled as an option when creating a Sakai Assignment. On June 3, 2017, PLU transitioned to the new Turnitin interface called Feedback Studio. Feedback Studio combines Turnitin Originality
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Student Sings way to Seattle Opera Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / March 11, 2013 March 11, 2013 You may have seen him tearing up the stage in Lagerquist Hall or starting an impromptu concert in the UC. Maybe you recognized him from America’s Got Talent “YouTube Acts Compete.” Or, if you were in Seattle last weekend, you may have seen the young bright-eyed face on stage at Seattle Opera’s production of La Boheme. John Marzano ’13, who has been singing for just about as long as he can remember
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Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it Posted by: nicolacs / June 24, 2024 June 24, 2024 By Britt BoardUniversity RelationsDuring the 2023-2024 academic year, 2,345 students received PLU-funded aid, with the average PLU student receiving $37,036 in scholarships.Through scholarship support, donors are part of a network of care that supports students in pursuing their educational goals, unlocking their full potential
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learning so much about chimpanzees, Webb decided she needed to visit Africa and learn more. She spent this fall semester studying away in Tanzania through the Lutheran Consortium of Colleges for Tanzania (LCCT). The program is a collaboration between PLU, St. Olaf College, Concordia College and Luther College. In it, students take classes at the University of Dar es Salaam and participate in LCCT work, such as independent research projects and teaching at local primary schools. Tanzania is home to
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chief for Black Hawk helicopter mechanics. He now works at Pacific Lutheran University as the Vet Corps Navigator, connecting military-affiliated students with on- and off-campus military resources.During his time in the military, Shumaker was deployed four times: twice to Afghanistan and twice to Iraq. He flew 1,800 hours in combat and received two distinguished combat medals: the U.S. Army Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded when one distinguishes himself in support of operations by “heroism or
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Summer Internship: Environmental Studies major works as a bio tech at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge Posted by: nicolacs / July 22, 2022 Image: Image: Environmental Studies major Fiona Ashton-Knochel ’24 spending the summer at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. (Photo courtesy of Fiona Ashton-Knochel) July 22, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing & CommunicationsFiona Ashton-Knochel ’24 is spending her summer on a bird refuge in Brigham City, Utah. The Environmental Studies major sat down with
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March 2, 2009 Illegal animal trade Charles Bergman approached a man known to provide parrots on demand in the Texas border town of Brownsville. He asked if the man knew where he could get 25 of the colorful, highly intelligent birds. At first the man didn’t buy the story that Bergman, actually a PLU English professor, was a U.S. pet store owner looking for cheap parrots.“Federali?” he shot back. Bergman said no. Then pulled a fist-sized wad of cash out of pocket. The man needed no further
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September 10, 2010 Best Foot Forward By Kari Plog ’11 When first-year students came to campus for orientation weekend this past September, organizers made sure that, on that first Saturday, those students were promptly sent off campus. About a dozen first-year students rolled up their sleeves and got muddy at Left Foot Organics, a non-profit farm which aims to promote self-sufficiency, inclusion and independence for people with developmental disabilities and rural youth. It was part of PLU’s On
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November 18, 2010 PLU student and prof head to Antarctica for global warming research through study of rocks and ice By Barbara Clements In a lab littered with Hostess snack bars and French fry wrappers, geosciences student Mike Vermeulen ’12, turns to his computer and pops up a map of Antarctica, then points to a grid in the upper part of the frozen continent. PLU geoscience professor Claire Todd and PLU student Mike Vermeulen head to deep into Antarctica to study rocks that may help explain
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described that way, animals are. “It wasn’t the journalist being derogatory,” Ramos, an assistant professor of English, said of the article. “But it was animalizing the immigrant. It’s one way of dehumanizing people – for sure.” In fact, Ramos noted that using the word “crawling” to describe an immigrant was not simply limited to this one instance – it had become accepted. For Ramos, that was troubling. “Language says a lot about how we see the world,” she said. Ramos has been fascinated with language
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