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  • beginning to trust that it would only open up more opportunities. I was beginning to learn that my largest fears carried my greatest growth.” Wagstaff worked hard and performed well, but she didn’t love the job this time. “I hated the management style,” she said. “It was very churn and burn. Expectations were unrealistic and employees were held to unachievable standards. Adversity ran rampant.” She even found herself encouraging her own people to leave. “Then one day someone I admire very much asked me

  • had felt it many times before and was beginning to trust that it would only open up more opportunities. I was beginning to learn that my largest fears carried my greatest growth.” Wagstaff worked hard and performed well, but she didn’t love the job this time. “I hated the management style,” she said. “It was very churn and burn. Expectations were unrealistic and employees were held to unachievable standards. Adversity ran rampant.” She even found herself encouraging her own people to leave. “Then

  • freshman year as part of the First-Year Experience. The First-Year Experience does not pertain to transfer students. What is the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science (BA/BS) requirement at PLU?Candidates for degrees from the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science (B.A., B.S.) degrees must meet Option I, II, or III below. Candidates for the B.A. with a major in English and for the B.A. in global studies must meet Option I. Candidates for a B.A. with majors in music must meet Option I or II of the

  • -WW2 history of the brain specimens. Since 2003 on the Council of Management and Trustee CARA (Council for At-Risk Academics), originally Academic Assistance Council, founded in 1933 to assist academics displaced by Nazism and other authoritarian regimes. He was on advisory commissions concerning: 1. National Socialism for the President of the Max Planck Gesellschaft, 1999-2004; 2. the Robert Koch Institute under National Socialism, 2005-9; 3. the German Association of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy

  • Estimation of Model Accuracy problem is a cornerstone problem in the field of Bioinformatics. As of CASP14, there are 79 global QA methods, and a minority of 39 residue-level QA methods, and very few of them works on protein complex. With the increasing accuracy of tertiary structure prediction methods, local quality is becoming more and more important, yet is still slightly underrepresented in tools that predict it. ZoomQA is a 3D structural based residue-level protein quality estimation tool that aims

  • echoed her frustration. Audrey Knutson ’07, a political science and global studies major, said 10-year-old Marimaua Muya can verbally comprehend what is said but has difficulty understanding what she reads. The Bantu children are still trying to adjust to life in the United States. During one tutoring session, Knutson asked Muya to locate Tacoma on a map of the United States posted in a corner of the classroom. Standing on a chair, Muya’s focus was on the Midwest. She needed prodding from Knutson to

  • over the last 10,000 years due to long-term global factors, such as changes in the earth’s orbit. Providing a record of this long-term retreat will help us place more recent, decade-scale climate change into context. PLU geosciences student Vermeulen ’12, along with Todd and four other researchers, traveled by C-130 cargo plane to a location in the Pensacola Mountains 1,000 miles away from McMurdo Station, the home of the U.S. Antarctic Program. Ice sheets leave behind clues about its past, by

  • they even contradict.” Navkiran “Navi” Randhawa Chemistry and Biology Tacoma, Wash. Randhawa loves this – she sees it as a way to engage in ideas she might not otherwise encounter if she spent all her time in the science building. This is by design. Whereas many universities, have programs that focus on global issues, what makes PLU’s truly unique, is that such issues are looked at from multiple perspectives and multiple disciplines – course material is drawn from at least two countries with

  • feels Pacific Lutheran University is both for quality education and the influence it has had—and will have—in progressive support for social justice and collaboration in our global community,” Nesselquist said. “The large Norwegian-American communities in Washington and Alaska will be thrilled to learn about the visit by His Majesty, and even more thrilled to be able to see him. We are looking very much forward to this rare and important visit.” His Majesty King Harald V of Norway will visit PLU on

  • Contributors Genny Boots Genny is a communication/mass media and journalism major with a minor in global development at PLU. Since leaving her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, Genny has been exploring new places. From backpacking in south and central America and central Europe to a semi-settled life in the Puget Sound, Genny has enjoyed writing and telling stories. You can find her work around campus, through PLU’s Division of Marketing and Communications as well as Mast Media, and in The News Tribune of