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benefit from using the OSF as our shared workspace. In the classroom, the OSF provides a platform for students to share their work easily and privately with their partner; they can also include the instructor or the public. The OSF is not limited to psychology, or sciences. My 16-year-old daughter is using the OSF to conduct her own independent art study by uploading a weekly activity and seeking feedback from mentors. She can even share her artwork with her grandparents just for their own enjoyment

Masters in Education (MAE) program upon graduation and for students entering the PLU MAE program. Students who enter the PLU MAE program may have earned their Bachelor’s degree at PLU or at another institution.“This program reflects PLU’s values of diversity, justice, and sustainability,” Gardiner said. “The program also reflects commitments to collaboration and leveraging collective expertise through the ongoing work between the Colleges of Professional Studies (education) and Natural Sciences

foundation in natural sciences and the liberal arts. Along with preparing undergraduates for generalist nursing practice, it prepares others for designated specialties and responds to the education needs of practicing nurses. University Communications staff writer Steve Hansen compiled this report. Comments, questions, ideas? Please contact him at ext. 8410 or at hansense@plu.edu. Photo by University Photographer Jordan Hartman. Read Previous Activist fights against poverty and disease Read Next PLU Idol

perfect fit with PLU,” said Bruce Bjerke ’72, chair of the Board of Regents. Thomas W. Krise has been named the 13th president of PLU. He will arrive in June to assume the presidency. “I know the campus community will quickly embrace President Krise as we work together to meet the challenges and the great opportunities of the decade ahead,” Bjerke said. Thomas Krise, 50, has been Dean of the College of the Pacific, the arts and sciences college of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California

career in investments.” Those with or without industry experience are encouraged to apply. Applicants must have quantitative backgrounds, and are likely to have an undergraduate degree in finance, mathematics, economics, accounting, engineering, physics, or another quantitative discipline. Target students include: Recent undergraduates hoping to embark on careers in finance with a skill set that differentiates them from their peers. Graduates in quantitatively rich disciplines (e.g., sciences and

., where she was a member of an integrated brand marketing team devoted to reaching the billion-dollar milestone for Barbie worldwide sales.  Gibbs began her corporate career at Apple as a public relations manager. Gibbs graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications arts and sciences from Michigan State University. She currently lives in the San Francisco area with her husband Dennis Minor and two spoiled standard poodles.  She is a long-time volunteer for Meals on Wheels and National Public

and their professor to the United States to help promote the country and learn about American culture. The six were chosen because they are some of the brightest from the country’s top university—Taiwan University. “Our mission is to promote tourism, our culture and cuisine,” said Cathy, Meng-chi Chang, a junior library information sciences major from Taiwan University. “We think of Taiwan as an island full of love and stories.” She was very impressed with how well places such as PLU embrace

PLU to compete in fun and exciting engineering competitions such as building stick bridges, creating prosthetic arms and designing and flying gliders. It’s a major event, filling both Olson Auditorium and Memorial Gymnasium, and about 25 PLU staff members—from the Division of Natural Sciences and other departments—volunteer each year, along with members of the community. Nobles calls it “the Olympics of MESA.”At the luncheon, MESA will award five scholarships worth a total of $10,000 to local high

scholars and offer the seventh- and eighth-graders tips on what it takes to get to college. PLU produced a #ReachHigher White House video that showcases Mount Tahoma students. PLU has awarded two Tacoma students a new endowed scholarship, The Ostenson Leadership Award, focused on increasing the number of African Americans in the Natural Sciences at PLU. “PLU has worked on the grassroots level for many years in all of our high schools, and many of our middle and elementary schools, helping Tacoma

million grant from the National Science Foundation.The grant, which provides funding over the next three years, will help extend existing collaborations between the university’s Division of Natural Sciences, Education Department and partner districts Clover Park and Franklin Pierce to improve K-12 STEM teacher preparation and induction.  “The grant is a big deal for us,” said Ksenija Simic-Muller, PLU’s Chair of Mathematics and a leading force behind the university’s proposal. “It will allow us to