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natural world, and this grants, including the grants to Pacific Lutheran University, are an important part of that work,” said Dana Miller, senior program director for the Murdock Trust. The grants to PLU will fund two years of student-faculty research looking into the ecology of the Pacific Northwest, as well as species divergence in several Mississippi River tributaries. Each professor will work with four students (two each summer) over the next two years to both collect and analyze data. For

introduce Professor Hardyway, Professor Mike Halvorson had a conversation with him over Summer break. This post contains a few excerpts, including essential data about his dog, Driscoll, and cat, Ivy. You can reach Professor Hardyway at fdhardyway@plu.edu. Research and Teaching Interests Prof. Halvorson:  Where did you attend college? Can you share a few research interests with us? Prof. Hardyway:  I attended undergraduate school in Wichita Kansas, and got my master’s degree in Wichita, Kansas both at

teaches it to her class, and at the authorial level, Kamal wrote Unmarriageable as an adaptation of the original for her thesis. Although the characters are incredibly well-versed in Austen, they frustratingly never fully realize how their lives parallel Austen’s novel. For instance, Alys and her friend Sherry (Charlotte Lucas’s parallel) explicitly compare their lives to Pride and Prejudice in one scene and note only dissimilarities besides the social power structures that limit their choices (149

2006 “Can the Can”Office of Residential Life and Outdoor Rec to initiate the formation of a bike co-op on campus. campaign and raise awareness about PLU’s surplus sales. Meanwhile, Pfaff will work with the Since the inception of “Can the Can” in October 2006, nearly half of PLU’s faculty and staff have opted to participate, giving up their personal trash cans in favor of recycling more. However, no data has been collected about the effectiveness of the campaign. Buchholz will survey faculty and

samples need to spin inside the magnet at nearly the speed of sound to get the best data. The spectrometer contains a series of chambers, with the outside chamber forming a vacuum jacket. The outer chamber is then filled with liquid nitrogen, which is at a temperature of minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit. Inside the chamber, a superconducting magnet sits in a broth of liquid helium, which is even colder, at minus 452 degrees Fahrenheit, or just a few degrees above the lowest known temperature in the

the group a bit about field craft, such as map reading and rope work. Swanson said that this year’s summer research really gave him a look into the scientific process and at “least a brief look at what scientists do in the field.” Todd said this is key, since each student on her team developed their own research study on the Rainier Mount Rainier and had to deal with some data that was expected, as well as some result that were unexpected. “It will help them deal with complexity and unknowns, and

published as a result of decreasing military budget projections. Cuts to JBLM would represent as much as 8 percent of the total cuts recommended by SPEA, which calls for the Army to reduce its “active duty end-strength” from 562,000 in 2012 (when PEA research began) down to 420,000 or fewer. Wednesday’s session will represent one of 30 throughout the country that are part of the Army’s analyses and data collection regarding where to enact the pending cuts. “The Army published a SPEA and determined that

call her in my head. She helps me take so many risks that I never thought I could accomplish. Her door is always open for me.  Tell me about your favorite class at PLU.  My favorite class was statistical consulting with Dr. [N.] Justice. We learned practical skills that will help in work as a data analyst or consultant. How has working with Campus Life as an ambassador for assessment, evaluation and research enriched your learning at PLU? I am taking it as practice for what I want to go into, which

, McFadden ‘11 landed a position as a postdoctoral associate at the Yale Institute of Global Health in New Haven, Connecticut, where she spends her time analyzing factors that have caused child vaccination rates to decline in many parts of the country.Not that poring over such data was always her forte. Her passion was kindled years ago as a psychology undergrad at PLU — even if she had to overcome her initial dread of statistics and methods first. “I was terrified to take that class because I never

illustration of the market scene was self-made in a way. If you look at the original photo (below right) I was initially provided, there isn’t a house on it. But there is evidence that the temple structures existed there. Also in the original picture, the foreground is filled with plants and corn. So a lot of the painting process was really how you activate that foreground. The first thing I worked on was the background, but it ended up being the first and last thing I did because every time I presented it