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  • working for the government would put him at the perfect crux of policy and action, with the power to institute real change. He landed a job as the El Salvador Desk Officer as a Presidential Management Fellow focusing on development policy in the region. Seventeen years later, nearly all of Carrato’s professional career has been with USAID’s Foreign Service. He has held positions in Colombia, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and Kenya where he has worked with teams grappling with issues of food insecurity

  • and related systems must change to alleviate global hunger,” Laurie-Berry says. Before 2015, the original PLU greenhouse functioned more like an extremely hot sunroom built on a black flat top roof. “It got so hot that everything died,” Laurie-Berry says. “The new greenhouse completely transformed what I could do in that class.” Today’s Carol Sheffels Quigg Greenhouse was built in 2015 and named for a former PLU regent, donor and enthusiastic supporter of science education at PLU. The 1,700-square

  • them ideal subjects for telescope observation, especially during the summertime in Tacoma. Kop photographed the stars as they underwent their luminous transformations, and by analyzing these images, he could determine the time it takes for the stars to go through their changes in brightness. “My research is on Variable Stars or stars whose brightness is known to change over time. By operating the telescope and utilizing the observatory’s charge-coupled device (CCD) camera, I could image a small set

  • the Faculty Notification Letter, which is sent to designated professors describing the authorized classroom accommodations. Students must request notice be sent to each faculty member. Chosen faculty will then receive the Faculty Notification Letter via email. This email should be kept confidential and should only be discussed privately with OAA staff or the student What Can Accommodations Not Do? Require a change in the functional outcome of a course. Require an alteration to the technical

  • Student Code of Conduct webpage. KeysKeys are issued upon check-in at no charge and must be returned whenever the student’s housing contract is terminated or a change of rooms takes place. Lost keys must be reported to the Department of Residential Life, AUC Suite 161, who will submit a service request to replace the key(s). A fee will be assessed for re-coring the room door lock and/or replacing lost keys.Pandemic Mitigation MeasuresCheck back for updates.Personal PropertyThe University will make

  • and select “No Books Required.” The message to students will change from “No Information Available” to “Your professor has indicated no books are required.” Knowing no book is required for your course will be important to students budgeting semester finances and assure them they haven’t missed purchasing a book they will eventually need. Why am I receiving emails from Verba Collect requiring me to adopt a textbook?The university sends a data feed to the Verba Collect adoption system. If you have

  • CDC. How this decision is determined can be found here. If determining factors increase, we will alert campus that indoor masking has become a requirement. (That eventuality would likely be short-term, lasting only until numbers drop again.) Care for suspected and positive cases: Based on current guidance from our partners at TPCHD, there has been no change to the required five days of isolation for a positive case, followed by five days of masking when around other people. Students who develop

  • to students about it, helping people in the grandest sense to become their best selves; that is super motivating for me.”Schaumberg graduated in 2018 from the University of Washington (UW) with a Ph.D in English, then had a year-long postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Arlington. He was thrilled to see a job opening at PLU; he and his wife have a small baby girl, and most of their family lives in the northwest.  Discussing his time at UW, Schaumberg noted the change of his

  • schedule, and I am always busy but learn a lot. Besides studying, I have two jobs on campus, Tutor for Business Major students and Major Gifts Assistant in KPLU. PLU has flexible academic programs. When Sichuan Students transferred to PLU, they need to think what are they going to do in the future, Accounting, Marketing, Finance, or Global Management. Students also can even change major, have minors, or double major. We do have some students who have already changed their major or double major in Math

  • Orchestra, including Bach’s Mass in B Minor and St. John Passion. Other projects included Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Rachmaninoff’s Vespers (the first complete performance by a University choir), and a performance of Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer with pianists Robin and Rochelle McCabe. Also with Robin McCabe came an acclaimed commission from Peter Schickele of his The Twelve Months. With the opening of Lagerquist Concert Hall in 1995 (both its great acoustics and sound isolation from outside noise), a