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January 28, 2010 Uganda: Food blog By Theodore Charles ’12 One of the things I have found most exciting about living in Kampala is trying a variety of different cultural foods. There are many different places that you can try these foods, ranging from expensive and boutique to roadside vendors on highways between towns. “The food here is not only delicious, it is a cultural experience that is not to be missed.” (Photo by Theodore Charles’12) I decided to throw together a short list of some must

February 15, 2012 PLU Professor Lenny Reisberg uses a smart board during instruction for a course he teaches. (Photo by John Froschauer) Technology opens the door By Chris Albert As the snow and ice closed campus during the end of January, the challenge of getting to class was much more than battling an early morning alarm clock. PLU Professor Lenny Reisberg’s J-Term course was supposed to begin that week and only last a total of two weeks. If it was held in any other class it may have spelled

him. Even when, as a second-year Lute, it led him to rethink plans to follow his parents into medicine and toward a major in communication. Even when it nudged him out of a burgeoning early career in public relations and into the world of corporate internal communications.Zeebuyth’s curiosity eventually led him to join the communications team at Starbucks, where he served in six different roles over a 10-year span, starting as a project manager and departing as a director of communications. It’s

passions resulted in her pursuing a degree in either environmental or animal law.“As long as I can remember, I knew I wanted to do something to protect animals and work with them,” Whalen said. “I liked animal law, not only because of the great protection that the law and lawyers can give animals, but I like that sort of work. I like reading, I like writing, and I like problem-solving and dealing with places where animals or the environment face troubles, and finding protections for them.” Whalen is an

My First MOOC: A New Year’s Resolution Revisited Posted by: bodewedl / August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer In January, I enrolled in my first MOOC to learn more about this controversial form of instruction.  It was definitely valuable, both for instructional design research and as a learning experience. The course was designed around five basic elements: video lectures, readings, weekly online quizzes, discussion boards, and video recorded “office hours

September 21, 2007 New device will probe the world of the atom Four professors over at Rieke are still pinching themselves. After applying for a National Science Foundation grant in January, on a hope and a prayer really, the chemistry faculty found out last year that they had been awarded a grant totaling $743,000 to purchase a powerful nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. “We were floored when we learned we had received it,” Fryhle said. “We didn’t expect to get it the very first time (we

October 27, 2008 ‘Souls of Black Girls’ When filmmaker Daphne Valerius flipped through magazines as a young girl, she rarely, if ever, saw anyone that looked like her – then a shy young black girl growing up in Rhode Island.“You looked through the magazines and didn’t see one woman of color,” the 26-year-old mused. “And you think, ‘Well, damn. And you ask yourself – am I pretty, am I beautiful, am I good enough?’”This push and pull of the media barrage with the self worth of young girls

October 22, 2010 Student production offers musical varieties By Kari Plog ’11 Junior Julia Stockton is putting her spin on a longtime theater tradition this month, when Pacific Lutheran University hosts the annual student production “Night of Musical Theatre” from Oct. 28 to 30. “The way it has grown in the past has been really, really phenomenal,” Stockton said. “NOMT” included numbers of “Next to Normal,” the Broadway hit that stars PLU alum Louis Hobson ’00. “It’s evolved into something that

February 22, 2011 PLU students spend 96 hours figuring out halfpipes and VHF signals By Chris Albert Pro snowboarder Shaun White is entering a halfpipe going for maximum vertical air. For hours Dan Case ’11 and his team study the YouTube video of White during a 96 hour Mathematical Contest in Modeling. “We’d pause it over and over again to see how to make a model out of it,” Case said. Four teams, totaling 11 PLU students, spent 96 hours competing in the Math Modeling Contest. (Photo by John

May 1, 2012 PLU students sort through garbage and learn how much of what is thrown away can be recycled. (Photos by John Froschauer) Student discovers sustainability, finds passion By Katie Scaff ’13 Like many students, Sara Patterson ’14 knew PLU was all about sustainability, but she didn’t know what sustainability really meant. Patterson came to PLU from a small town in Idaho and hadn’t learned much about sustainability or recycling, because “it was just never made into a big deal.” “When I