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April 6, 2009 ‘Lofty’ is just a word to crush For as far as the eye-can see white follows the landscape, lightly bleeding into a calm blue sky. Wind can make or break success and even determine survival here. There are no animals and the conditions often make any adventure silent amongst its travelers. This is Antarctica and in 2001 Liv Arnesen, from Norway, and Ann Bancroft, from Minnesota, became the first women to make the trip across the continent through the South Pole. On March 31, the

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?The People’s Gathering: A Revolution of Consciousness conference is a professional and personal development learning experience that provides a supportive space where participants can engage in frank and open dialogue about race and racial disparities systemically present in work, school, and everyday life. A host of local and national social justice scholars and leaders from Indigenous, Asian, Black, Latino, Multiracial, Pacific Islander and, white communities will lead small group discussions

? Well, there’s a lot of science that takes place in the kitchen: ingredients transforming on a molecular level through a variety of chemical and physical processes like heating, chopping, mixing and freezing. Cooking IS chemistry, on a fundamental level. “What (my students are) doing, then, is getting kind of a base chemistry background — so learning to think like a chemist and about the scientific method,” Munro explained. “My department loves food and all the chemistry and the processing that goes

substance. Yakelis gives the students a rundown on how to order the machine to drop the sample into the depths of the NMR, and then await test results on how protons are oriented in the unknown liquid. The machine works by an electronic arm plucking out a sample from a rotating tray and slowly lowering it into a tube, which then goes down on a column of air into the machine. There, a powerful magnet that is 200,000 times as strong as the Earth’s magnetic field spins the compound at super-fast speeds. As

.”  They were divided into three teams, PLU-3, PLU-2 and PLU-1, and took fifth, 11th, and 16th respectively at the University of Portland. Within the entire region, PLU-3 took 42nd, PLU-2 took 66th and PLU-1 took 82nd out of 111 teams. “I’m so proud of the job they did,” Kenneth Blaha, professor of CSCE The contest is held over five hours across six different campuses in British Columbia, Oregon, Hawaii, California, and Washington. Unlike sports, these competitors don’t need to be in the same room or

July 7, 2008 T-stad: One big, happy family From his perch on the seventh floor of Tingelstad Hall, Adam Whistler can view the expanse of lower campus from PLU’s largest and tallest hall. Whistler, a freshman considering a major in physics, said that while T-stad, as it’s known on campus, wasn’t his first choice, his is very glad that’s where he ended up. What’s not to like? With about 360 residents and nine floors, it’s the largest dorm on campus, both in size and number of students. Whistler

crew team or joggers, there’s a place to eat for you, as well as a place to nosh if you want a late snack. Here’s a quick rundown- The Commons in The University Center is the main dining hall on campus. This is where you’ll come for your unlimited, all-you-care-to-eat meals, Sunday brunch and Sunday-Friday dinner. You will also find lots of great á la carte choices for lunch and this is the source for a hot, home-cooked breakfast. Garfield 208  is not all about coffee. There’s a full menu from

. The moves begin – a balance here, a handstand there. Soon, they bust out the headmills and king flares. Juan Reyes, who lives in the area but is not a PLU student, is first with a headmill. Following Reyes’ lead, others – some PLU students and others not – follow. Soon, to the beats of James Brown and Ultramagnetic MCs, the long hallway on the lower UC is a mass of twirls, kicks and spins. Weaving his way through the throng, Colin Roth ’11, who started PLU’s Breakdancing Ministries, shows up about

Instruction (OSPI).Brown engages students in her classroom by centering each student’s rich experiences to encourage them to recognize the values in themselves. Brown says that “Fostering a safe environment for students to develop critical thinking skills and to have critical conversations” is fundamental to her approach.  “I wanted to be the teacher that I needed growing up” Brown explains. An aspiring Power Ranger as a young child, Brown’s passion for saving the world led to dreams of a law career