Search

the move starting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 12 at the current Mount Rainier sire, immediately following the girls basketball game. There will also be a day-long open house in the new facility on March 15, where guided tours and be available to answer questions. This will also be an opportunity for prospective families to register students. More will be announced about the collaborative partnership between PLU and MRLH. Read Previous Study away blog roundup Read Next ‘For the love of chocolate

November 29, 2011 Aaron Hushagen’s cool internship: 88.5 KPLU-FM By Steve Hansen Aaron Hushagen is a sociology major. He’s also an audiophile. So, during his senior year when he was taking an audio production class, he found himself thinking that he’d like to learn more about it. It didn’t matter that it didn’t have anything to do with his major. He asked his professor, Bob Holden, if he knew of any opportunities where he could continue to learn about the subject. Soon, Hushagen found himself

Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Computational Biology Posted by: alemanem / December 15, 2017 December 15, 2017 Two Thousand eighteen marks the the 9th summer for the TecBio REU program in computational biology at the University of Pittsburgh. Application Deadline:  February 12, 2018 Program Dates:  May 21 – July 27, 2018 Student Support:  $5500 stipend, housing*, and travel More information can be found at  tecbioreu.pitt.edu, which also hosts the program application page.  Also, see

choice or fill-in-the-bank questions directly into a lesson page. This feature can be useful for a number of purposes like collecting formative assessment data and conducting class polls. If an instructor shares a video or reading that students are expected to review before class, the instructor could also post a question that promotes engagement with the resource. Lesson questions allow for automatic grading and feedback, integrate directly into Sakai’s Gradebook, and can display a histogram of

,” says Provost Joanna Gregson. “We attract students who are enrolling in college with the specific goal of leveraging their education to positively impact their communities. The new criminal justice program will provide us with another excellent route to prepare our students to meet their goals and serve the public good.”  Faculty members say that the new program, which includes both a major and minor in criminal justice, grew out of a longstanding criminal justice track within the sociology major at

message resonate with Johnson for multiple reasons. Like Obama, he’s a first: the first African-American principal in the Auburn School District. This is also his first year as a principal. He says “Yes We Can” also resonates because, “It reminds me, ‘Yes I Can’ and ‘Yes We Can’ build this school.” It was on a basketball court that Johnson first felt his calling. He had been bouncing around different majors while a PLU student, unsure what he wanted to do with his life. The dean of students at the

and diversity in STEM.  The program starts in April with “Gear Up for Research”, a series of virtual lab group meetings designed for RISE participants to meet their faculty mentors and research teams, learn about their summer project, and learn basic skills and research protocols for the summer program. Important Dates: Gear up for Research: April 15 – May 15 Residential Program: June 2 – Aug 15 Application Deadline: February 15, 2022 Notification Date: Early-mid March 2022 Stipends: $6000 stipend

February 1, 2013 Victor Bull ’10 Melannie Denise Cunningham ’12 and Victor Bull ’10 hang out near Red Square on the PLU campus. Victor Bull ’10 Major: Business Employer: State Farm Insurance PLU Connection: Melannie Denise Cunningham ’12, PLU director of multicultural recruitment Victor Bull and his admissions advisor Melannie Denise Cunningham were in a verbal bean bag toss as they relaxed on a warm day this fall just off of Red Square. “I give all the credit to her,” Bull said, as he talked

2014 Minnesota Book Award for Young People’s Literature and was nominated and/or a finalist for several other Really Big Deals. What kind of mixture of surprise/relief/excitement/validation did that elicit? When did it hit you that you had seriously knocked your first book out of the park?When the Morris Award announcement came, I was little shocked. It was very odd, but yes, it felt wonderful to know that the librarians and book people who had read it felt that it deserved that distinction. The

Exploring “GradeMark” for Sakai Turnitin Assignments Posted by: bodewedl / August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer Most faculty are familiar with the software Turnitin for its Originality Check of student papers, but it also offers a grading tool called GradeMark. On May 30, PLU will upgrade its Turnitin service in Sakai and with it receive improved access to the GradeMark tool. For student work submitted through Sakai Assignment’s Turnitin service, faculty will