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accomplishments there, Krise was the founder and first director of the Air Force Humanities Institute at the academy. Thomas Krise enjoys some Caribbean steel drum music and ice cream and strawberries at PLU’s summer Strawberry Festival.  Coincidentally, Krise went to high school in the Caribbean and is an expert in early Caribbean and American, 17th century literature. Given this eclectic and wide-ranging background, it should not be surprising how vast, and expansive, his interests are. Both he and Patty

say ‘yes’ to different possibilities,” she says. “I like trying new things.” That kind of thinking helped her segue from jobs in art education and publishing to public education communications. As senior director for communications, government relations and public engagement for Educational Service District 113, her team provides services such as writing, video production and graphic design for local school districts. They also foster initiatives developed by state education officials and help

celebrated. Leaving this event, I felt empowered to take steps in my state to make sure all teachers feel appreciated and to continue to spread the positive in Montana classrooms. Jessica Anderson '07 (middle) with students at Powell County High School in Deer Lodge, Montana.× Which came first, your passion for teaching or your passion for science? When did you decide to combine the two? When I started at PLU I knew my major would be teaching. I’d been passionate about making teaching a career from a

Chemistry Graduate Programs Colorado School of Mines Posted by: alemanem / November 10, 2020 November 10, 2020 The Colorado School of Mines Graduate Programs department offers MS (thesis and non-thesis options) and PhD degrees in Chemistry and Applied Chemistry. In addition, MS and PhD degrees are also offered in Geochemistry, Hydrological Sciences and Engineering, Materials Science, Nuclear Engineering, and Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering through interdisciplinary graduate programs

report on the history and culture of the upcoming port, while the business students report on the economy, tourist product, and other business aspects.  We also reflect after each port on what we’ve observed and learned.  The students in the two classes are all mixed in their cabins and in their explorations of the ports of call. It was a special delight to be able to introduce my J-Term@Sea students to the seniors at my high school, All Saints Cathedral School in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.  After

them along into their next journey in life, it is impeccable. We also get to lead them into Convocation, and it’s a cool handoff from our work to the PLU community. How would you describe the transition from high school to Gonzaga University? I’m totally a first-generation student. I didn’t even know you could go on campus tours. I was lucky to just be driven enough in high school to want to get a college education. I just thought of that as my next step. Once I got there, the transition was

Application for the ACS Scholars Program Now Open! Posted by: alemanem / January 18, 2018 January 18, 2018 The ACS Scholars Program is a renewable, undergraduate scholarship available to American Indian, African American, and Hispanic/Latino high school seniors and college freshmen, sophomores, and juniors intending to or already majoring in a chemical science and planning a career in a chemical science field. The ACS scholarship is also available to students in two-year college programs

2020 Plant Genome Research Program Posted by: alemanem / January 8, 2020 January 8, 2020 The 2020 Plant Genome Research Program Summer Internship at the Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell University is now seeking undergraduate and local high school applicants! For the past 19 years, BTI has been hosting a summer internship providing an outstanding student-development program that focuses on training and inspiring the next generation of scientists. Located on the Cornell University campus

Professor of Philosophy and Law Anthony Kwame Appiah, who will share his reflections on how widely held identity categories are used and abused. Ara Norenzayan, Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia and a co-director of UBC’s Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture, will address the evolutionary origins of religion and the psychology of religious diversity in today’s globalized world. Dean Spade, Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, will challenge

honored by the presence of His Majesty on this historic occasion.  PLU is proud of our 125-year history, and of the Norwegian pioneers who brought the Lutheran tradition of higher education to the Pacific Northwest.  We also recognize the homelands of the Puyallup Tribe on which we stand today here at the Tacoma Dome, as well as the homelands of the Steilacoom and Nisqually Tribes where our campus has stood for all of the last 125 years.   The founders of PLU envisioned a University of the First Rank