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analyzing samples with the NMR: Yakelis’s Organic Special Projects students and Waldow’s Instrumental Analysis students will be among the first students to use it. The machine works by an electronic arm plucking out a sample from a rotating tray and slowly lowering it into a tube, which then goes down on a column of air into the bowels of the machine and into a center of a powerful magnet that is 200,000 times as strong as the Earth’s magnetic field. As the machine analyzes the sample, information

recreation, training and competition in every sport. “The projects will be phased in over time,” Turner said. The first major component is the creation of two outdoor all-weather lighted synthetic fields for practice, competition and recreation. One of the fields will be designed to accommodate the addition of spectator seating, giving the campus a multipurpose stadium sometime in the future. The construction of new indoor space for practice, instruction and recreation is also planned for phase one. It

nationality, most of the children never saw their parents again. Brade first became interested in this subject while working on her capstone (senior) projects at PLU. In her research she came across a book written by a Kindertransport survivor. After eventually finishing up her masters, Brade plans to continue into doctorate study at Chapel Hill. And after that? “Teaching history,” she laughed. “And I’d really  like to do it at PLU.” Read Previous PLU ROTC awarded prestigious MacArthur Award Read Next

. “That’s the funny attribute of a Nobel Prize,” he said. “It catches you off guard. We wouldn’t have changed anything (in our research) even if there had been no prize at the end of the work.” But, as a matter of fact, there was. Fischer quickly warned the students that just because a Nobel might now be on a resume, to not assume that research grants would come flowing into the doors of the lab. In fact, it usually becomes harder to get the money for projects, he said. “It is more difficult,” he said

private agencies committed to protecting endangered species. • been an active volunteer with the Washington State Veterans Conservation Corps on environmental-restoration projects through the Puget Sound region, including an award-winning project restoring sections of the Duwamish River. Farnum and his wife, Gena, have three children. Read Previous PLU President and Mrs. Krise Announce Endowed Internship Fund Read Next Best-selling Author, and Alum, Comes to PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

For more on Bergman’s articles, photography or upcoming projects: Visit his website.The talk itself is somewhat of a “swan song”: After 38 years and a notoriously adventurous career at PLU, Bergman will begin phased retirement this summer. He is far from done with his work, however. Currently, Bergman is especially interested in two remarkable birds: parrots and penguins. “Parrots? Because they’re so smart, and they are animals in the vanguard in showing us how much more they are than we give them

learning. More importantly, we were helping make more people aware and involved with ending the tragedy of human trafficking,” Anderson said. The two students and their faculty adviser, Joanne Lisosky, were funded by PLU’s new Diversity, Justice and Sustainability FUNd to purchase equipment and travel to the Philippines in January. Every PLU student pays $10 a semester to the fund, and a diverse team of students, faculty and staff fund projects that are “socially relevant and accessible.” The

favorite. She has a special passion for classic literature, including authors like Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde. Einan worked with Associate Professor of English Adela Ramos on projects about books by Jane Austen. Einan and Ramos worked on online posts reviewing Jane Austen themed adaptations, merchandise, games and spin-off books. Einan recently completed her capstone about female mobility in Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Ramos remembers meeting Einan for the first time in her Jane Austen Communities

are interested in the program.  “I love that I get to see everybody through the application process,” she says. She takes pride in paying attention to the smallest details and her growing abilities as a project manager — abilities that have clearly not gone unnoticed by her supervisors, as she has been asked to work on a wide variety of additional projects. She’s become a key utility player for the academy, serving as the program’s point of contact with Salesforce, helping launch a new website

in what is now Microsoft Studios (where his projects included favorites like Halo, Mass Effect and Age of Empires), before stints with multiple gaming start-ups as well as industry heavyweights like Electronic Arts and Big Fish Games. “Lots of people play games; not a lot of people can tell you why games are fun or how good games are made,” Grande says. Eventually, he gravitated toward the emerging field of free-to-play games. Those are the games you can download for free and choose to spend