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  • Senior Physics capstone presentations will take place Wednesday, May 18th starting at 2pm in Morken 103.

    the negative binomial probability distribution to investigate trends in the match win probability. 4:45pm Abby Trenary – “Among Giants: Searching for Stable Orbits of Rocky Planets Between Jupiter and Saturn” The project was to numerically solve the problem of 2+ astronomical objects interacting under the influence of their mutual gravitational attraction (“N-body problem”). The goal was to determine which initial parameters, if any, could allow for a small, rocky planet to orbit between the gas

  • Frank Hewins, who leads Franklin Pierce Schools, was named Superintendent of the Year by the Washington Association of School Administrators.

    direct result of Hewins’ stable leadership. He praised the superintendent’s focus on purposeful recruiting, thoughtful and rigorous professional development, social justice and equity, and more. “While a team effort certainly created the growth, Frank’s leadership set the vision and expectation for success,” Keim said. “That type of leadership is what the Superintendent of the Year award is designed to recognize.” Hewins has worked in Franklin Pierce Schools for three decades, a majority of his 40

  • In both Douglas McGrath’s and Autumn de Wilde’s adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma (1815), Christmas dinner scenes intimate the intersection of the familial love and comfort associated with Emma and Mr. Knightley’s romance. At the same time, these scenes draw attention to Knightley’s often paternalistic…

    misguided attentions to other men threaten to both delay their union and disrupt the existing family structure. Throughout these incidents, Mr. Knightley remains a stable patriarchal figure, who represents her key to a traditional family structure. He stands in contrast to the inconsistency and frivolity of Mr. Churchill, Mr. Elton, and arguably of her own father. In marrying Knightley, Emma not only avoids disrupting the structure of Highbury’s most important family but also aligns herself with the

  • The Career Whisperer Hans Stegemoeller ’14 shakes hands with Scott Myhre of Pariveda Solutions at the 2014 Career Expo at PLU. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) New Graduate Had a Job Before He Had a Diploma By Shunying Wang ’15 Many college seniors encounter a real-life challenge…

    maintained good grades, has found the internships and could speak to his accomplishments… and that’s what we are looking for,” Myhre said. Since almost all college graduates hope to find a stable job, professionals say one way to get there is to gain more self-awareness and to develop personal expectations and goals. “Prepare yourself all the way, so when you show up, the employers are interested,” Myhre said. Read Previous Lute Cycling Cross-Country to Bring Awareness to Hunger and Food Waste Read Next

  • In the movie Jerry Maguire , the lead character is an incredibly successful and charismatic sports agent. Jerry has a crisis of conscience one night, after the young son of one of his injured players curses him out. Jerry realizes he’s come to value his…

    managing a university. How do we ensure that we are putting our Rod Tidwells – our students – first in an environment of escalating costs and competitive ambitions? The pillars of our strategic vision include the Philosophy of Enrollment that I blogged about recently, which seeks stability of enrollment and an optimal student/faculty ratio from one year to the next in an effort to provide a consistently high-quality educational program for our students, and a stable and vibrant work environment for our

  • The new PLU Fixed Tuition Guarantee ensures tuition for the 2022–23 incoming class of first-year and transfer students will remain the same throughout their undergraduate years, adding to the list

    any need-based scholarships, grants, loans and/or work study. Will the Fixed Tuition Guarantee impact my financial aid eligibility?No. Provided you maintain satisfactory academic progress and your family’s financial situation does not change, your financial aid eligibility from year to year should remain stable. Will fees, room and meals costs also be fixed?They will not. These costs could continue to increase gradually based on market factors. However, PLU’s room and meals costs continue to be

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 11, 2017)- A Pacific Lutheran University alumnus and a strong partner in the extended Lute family recently earned an exceptional honor from the Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA). Frank Hewins ’86, superintendent of Franklin Pierce Schools located in PLU’s backyard, is…

    national averages — is a direct result of Hewins’ stable leadership. He praised the superintendent’s focus on purposeful recruiting, thoughtful and rigorous professional development, social justice and equity, and more. “While a team effort certainly created the growth, Frank’s leadership set the vision and expectation for success,” Keim said. “That type of leadership is what the Superintendent of the Year award is designed to recognize.”    Hewins has worked in Franklin Pierce Schools for three

  • For the graduating class of 2024, freshman year was online and confined. So by the time fall came around for sophomore year, they embraced in-person classes, study groups, lunches, dinners, and more. That’s true at least for political science major Kaden Bolton ’24, who graduated…

    city council and the political parties at play.”  “My hypothesis was that the younger people would be happy with the policy and pleased with the pedestrian-only area, and that older people would be less happy with it. But what I found was that support for the policy was relatively stable throughout, and that in the youngest residents, between about 18 and 25, people were actually fairly skeptical of it and they felt that it was a way to placate the environmentalists who lobbied for it.” Bolton says

  • Housing is something many of us take for granted. Much more than just a place to sleep and a structure to shelter us from the elements, our homes provide the space we need to maintain a functional life. It’s where we manage our mental health,…

    victim to predatory lending schemes. Harmon now oversees shelters, affordable housing programs and funding as the housing assistance bureau chief for Arlington County in Virginia. Affordable housing work is “a passion that found me,” Harmon says. “It showed me tangible ways I could help make a real difference in people’s lives. Safe, decent and stable housing is the American Dream.” “Becoming a housing advocate, working for our most vulnerable, puts you on the front lines to fight for policy and

  • Major in Earth Science 34 semester hours in the following earth science courses, plus 4 semester hours in supporting courses The bachelor of arts degree is the minimum preparation for the field and

    landforms. Includes labs. Prerequisite: ESCI 201 or consent of instructor. (4) ESCI 336 : Geochemistry Study of fundamental geochemistry principles with focus on applications to investigations into a wide-range of earth and atmospheric processes and systems. Analysis and interpretation of student-collected and published field and lab data. Includes labs. Prerequisite: ESCI 201 and either CHEM 104 or 115 or consent of instructor. (4) ESCI 342 : Climate and Earth Systems Study of climate and climate