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A Tale of Two Students: Yakima area students find a home away from home Posted by: Silong Chhun / January 4, 2021 Image: Henry Temple ‘21 and Isabel Gutierrez ‘23 (Photo by Jake Parrish) January 4, 2021 By Veronica CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsAbout two and a half hours east of Tacoma sits the farming community of Yakima, Washington. The Central Washington county has about 243,000 residents and is probably most notable for producing the majority of the nation’s apples and hops. But it’s also
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home three bronze medals and one silver medal. This year, Lute chef Chuk Blessum has his eyes set on the gold. For Blessum, this competition is about competing with and challenging himself in the hopes of growing as a chef. With only an hour to compete and ten minutes to display the food on the plate for judging, each chef has to be fully prepared. The judges of this competition are certified Master Chefs. “These are the people who create master chefs,” Blessum said. Each year there is one
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January 12, 2009 Students enjoy the fire after dinner at Explore! Turning passions into vocation By Chris Albert Last year, PLU sophomore Idaishe Zhou attended EXPLORE!, not knowing exactly what to expect but hoping for the best. This past weekend, she returned to the annual retreat for freshmen as a student leader hoping to help the first-year students find what she did – an understanding of what vocation means and finding lasting friendships. “It’s really not about finding the answers, but
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out. And at Pacific Lutheran University, that causes problems on several levels. In 2010, PLU adopted a campuswide winter temperature “set point” of 68 degrees, said Joe Bell, PLU’s director of Environmental, Health, Safety and Emergency Programs. Keep it at 68 … squarely in the official “comfort zone.”(Photo: John Struzenberg ’16) “This temperature should be acceptable and comfortable for the majority of people,” he said—but people (and buildings) have their own settings, too … and their own
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Ole Miss Now Accepting 2022 Summer REU Applications Posted by: alemanem / January 24, 2022 January 24, 2022 2022 Ole Miss Chemistry Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program: The Ole Miss Chemistry Department seeks applicants for an NSF-funded summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in 2022. Students who have completed their freshman year of college and who will not have graduated as of Fall 2022 can participate fully in “Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer
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Summer Internships at the National Security Agency Posted by: nicolacs / May 10, 2022 May 10, 2022 The National Security Agency (NSA) has three exciting 2023 summer internship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in mathematics, statistics, and physics. Applications for summer 2023 will open on 1 September 2022 for the Directors Summer Program, Cryptanalysis and Signals Analysis Summer Program, and Graduate Mathematics Program. These 12 week paid internships provide
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, and a volunteer work party to get the plot’s first official growing season started. The Garden Club has been working throughout the year to prepare the new site for planting. Many months and man-hours later, the site has 22 garden beds and the soil is ready for planting. This year marks the third growing season for the community garden. First established in 1997 by student Brian Norman, the community garden didn’t live past his graduation a year later. In April 2006, Becky Mares ’07 and Kate
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, and becoming leaders in their communities. An investment in PLU scholarships is an investment in students who will be empowered to thrive in a well-rounded education that extends beyond the classroom. We asked three students what scholarship support means to them and how they plan to spark a brighter future by serving and leading with care – both at PLU and beyond. Rhiannon Leach ’25, Elementary Education “I want to be a safe space for students to feel comfortable talking about anything.” Rhiannon
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. “All the things that help make our community safer are made possible through this grant funding,” said Bobbi Hughes ‘00, director of the Women’s Center. “We’re really a leader in making the community safer.” This is the third time the center has applied for and received the funding, formally called “The Grant to Reduce Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, Dating Violence and Stalking on Campus,” which is awarded specifically to colleges and universities that address and prevent intimate partner
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how Rome dealt with its prisoners – not very nicely – and the animals it used in the Coliseum games. Some animals faired a bit better than the convicts, simply because they were so expensive to capture, transport and care for, Nelson said. In both films –Animal Gladiators will air later this year – Nelson worked as an expert consultant, giving a flavor of the culture of the time and the mindset of the population. “Machines of Malice” will look at how “advancements in technology” – such as
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