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Workers install new furnishings in a Stuen Hall room on July 8. The renovated residence hall will be ready for residents in Fall 2014. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) PLU Upgrading Residence Halls With $10 Million Bond PLU Marketing & Communication Pacific Lutheran University will save millions…
size and open onto the main lounge. Ordal Hall will be taken offline next summer, with occupancy scheduled for Fall 2015—the same time the plumbing work to South Hall will be complete. This bond issue is estimated to save the university $4.72 million over the life of bond. “We are very proud to be a partner with the university on the renovation and expansion of their student housing and are always very pleased that we can play a part in generating significant savings to the university and its
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DMC grants appear in classrooms Interactive software, a Wii to use in graphic design and a video which will record future teachers at work – all these ideas received funding this year through the Digital Media Center Small Grants fund. Each year in May, Layne…
and audience-response clickers. Joanne Lisosky, Associate Professor of Communication: To accelerate expansion of The Mast’s online presence, the staff will receive training and consultation by Mark Briggs, a national expert on integrated news media and digital literacy. The $1,000 grant will pay for three sessions by Briggs with selected students, faculty, and staff. Wendelyn Shore, Associate Professor of Psychology, Division of Social Sciences: Shore will use $980 for four “Inquisit” licenses to
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Reviving Confucianism By Chris Albert As part of the PLU Chinese Studies Program lecture series, Daniel A. Bell will visit campus to examine the revival of Confucianism as the moral foundation for political rule in China. Confucianism is making a comeback in Chinese debate about…
more progressive form of Confucianism that offers a compelling alternative to Western-style liberal democracy. In American media, the story of today’s China is only half told, Youtz said. There are rightful criticisms, but there are also untold successes, such as economic expansion and even environmental advances that think of the world in the long term, rather than in the immediate. There are even examinations of what a Chinese free press should look like. It may stem from the Confucian traditions
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By Damian Alessandro ’19. In most popular histories of computing, the Apple II personal computer (1977) stands out as a pathbreaker among early devices in the PC Revolution. But how innovative was Apple’s first mass-market computer, and what design features and ideas helped it stand…
, in 1978, a floppy disk drive called the Disk II was provided with the Apple II. This attached via a controller card plugged into an expansion slot, which users could access by taking apart the case. The video display device was initially a television hooked to the Apple II, but later a screen could be attached as a peripheral. The Apple II would also originally use Integer BASIC for writing programs, which would be encoded into the Motherboard ROM chips. However, the computer later used Applesoft
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Three months before President Hu Jintao of China made his historic visit to Washington State and met with Governor Christine Gregoire in April, 2006, a group of 60 business, education, and community
teachers of Chinese have completed the teacher preparation program led by Betty Lau in Seattle Public Schools, funded by STARTALK. I was one of the first Chinese teachers to get my teacher certification and Chinese language endorsement through this program. Expansion of Chinese Language Programs in public high schools 2004 – 2012 Based on data from the Mapping & Enhancing Language Learning (MELL) Surveys in 2004, 2007, 2009, and data from the OSPI Student Enrollment database (CEDARS) in spring 2012, we
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Before fall of 2008, I was living what I call my 95% ideal life. I had married my college sweetheart, found a job at a Minnesota university close to family, and was busing being a professor, spouse,
John Knox, 2018) draws on recent research on illness-related trauma and the insights it provides on what it’s like to be undone by cancer and other serious illnesses. I use trauma research to call for an expansion of the stories we tell about cancer as well as about faith, and I explore places in the Christian story that make space for those undone by serious illness. When we acknowledge and make space for being undone, and acknowledge that God is in those spaces as well, we can catch glimpses of
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Montana native gets back to his roots in a new anthology on the West By JuliAnne Rose ’13 Inspired by the history of the West, Russell Rowland ’81 has made a career exploring Western identity. Partnered with long-time friend, Lynn Stegner, Rowland produced a new…
into the 21st century,” said Lynn Stegner, co-editor of West of 98. “It is also a book about how landscape imprints individuals.” What began as a much smaller collection of 12 essays on Western identity over the past 200 years, grew into a compilation of 66 poems and essays commenting on the changes in the West since expansion in the 18th century. “It quickly mutated to be a defining core of voices that could talk in a way that could really define what it meant to be a Westerner,” Stegner said
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Pacific Lutheran University hires new Vice President of Marketing and Communications to promote the university’s vision of service, sustainability and leadership. Donna Gibbs, a marketing and communications leader for over 20 years , will become the new Vice President of Marketing at Pacific Lutheran University.…
participated in managing key enterprise accounts including Adobe and Gateway Computer. Gibbs has also served as vice president of corporate communications at Nike, where she was chief communications strategist and spokesperson on a wide range of issues including regulatory concerns, production sourcing and labor practices, mergers and acquisitions and financial performance during one of Nike’s most rapid periods of global expansion. Prior to Nike, Gibbs was director of public relations at Mattel, Inc
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Turning Numbers Into Words Tyler Ball ’13, left, and PLU Math Professor Tom Edgar conducted research over the summer of 2012 (with Daniel Juda ’13) that’s now published in the Rose-Hulman Undergraduate Mathematics Journal. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Undergraduate Math Research Published in Prestigious Journal By…
paper. Edgar received the grant for the research and recruited Ball and Juda to assist. “He was really working with us,” Ball said. “It wasn’t like he knew all the answers, which I thought was really cool.” The three researched a more specific ordering of natural numbers. The journal abstract reads, in part: “This paper provides an overview of the b-dominance order over the natural numbers, ℵ, using the base b expansion of natural numbers. … Here we discuss many ideas in order theory, including the
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discipline. Students are nurtured in their ability to provide compassionate, socially responsible care and contribute to professional citizenship in complex healthcare environments. Cross-disciplinary student learning is fostered through integrating the nursing curriculum with the liberal arts and sciences to foster the development of reflective practitioners who pursue excellence and seek to participate in the evolution and expansion of professional roles. Shared Values and Guiding Principles We
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