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  • The Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University is looking for excellent students for our graduate program. Our faculty perform research in diverse areas from organic chemistry to structural biology to materials science, energy-related research, and environmental chemistry. Kevin Smith’s group continues its longstanding work…

    emphasis on the training of women and underrepresented minorities, and have received major awards in recognition of our mentoring, advising, and science education efforts (Nature Award for Mentoring, Presidential Award for STEM Mentoring, ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students). Our faculty believe firmly that we are here not simply to provide research advice but to also provide advising and mentorship. Above all else, we love to hear from interested prospective graduate students! Detailed

  • Building a relationship with God based on openness When Mycal Ford discusses his faith, his story is that of a classic Christian conversion. He was an all-star athlete. He was, and remains, handsome and popular. In high school, success came easy. And with it, so…

    June 4, 2009 Building a relationship with God based on openness When Mycal Ford discusses his faith, his story is that of a classic Christian conversion. He was an all-star athlete. He was, and remains, handsome and popular. In high school, success came easy. And with it, so did other things – like alcohol, drugs and women. Of this, he’s not proud. And through it all, he remained unfulfilled. Why does Mycal Ford prefer to be called ‘spiritual’ as opposed to ‘religious’? One Sunday, he was

  • TACOMA, Wash. (April 24, 2015)—A team of PLU Marketing students has won the Social Business track of the 2015 Business Plan Competition presented by the Tacoma Entrepreneur Network. The winning team—Taylor Gonzales, Kevin McKay, Kayla Evans, Lindsey Campbell and Austen Wilson—is mapping a marketing plan…

    competition, sponsored by the Herbert B. Jones Foundation and the Civic Scholarship Initiative and hosted at the University of Puget Sound, will help EnVia bring retail products, crafted by female artisans and entrepreneurs, to the U.S. retail market. “As students learn and execute marketing techniques, it’s so wonderful that the outcome of this work will ultimately help women artisans/entrepreneurs build economic independence,” Mulder said. “It is just so PLU.” Read Previous PLU Presents Service Awards

  • If you search for the CV of Assistant Professor of Computer Science Renzhi Cao, Ph.D., you’ll find a list of published research papers longer than Foss Field. He says it’s a great feeling when a new piece of research is published. But what he finds…

    timely scholarship. “One of my goals at PLU is to promote early engagement of undergraduate students – especially for women and underrepresented students – in machine learning, bioinformatics, and the data science field,” he says. “I want to inspire students to pursue advanced STEM education and research careers.”  Cao explains: “Not only is research interesting for the students, I think it’s truly an important part of their education in computer science. I liken it to the Chinese proverb, from

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 27, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University welcomes its first Doctor of Nursing Practice cohort to class orientation on May 28. The DNP, which prepares graduates in the advanced-practice specialty area of Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), already has been ranked as one of the top…

    ) licensure. In the State of Washington, ARNPs have independent practice and prescribing authority.About the 2015 DNP Cohort Total enrollment: 15 (13 women and 2 men). Average GPA: 3.54. Average age: 37.3 (students range from 28 to 55). 9 students with a BSN are starting in the BSN to DNP track—all are in the Family Nurse Practitioner program. 6 students with an MSN are in the MSN to DNP track—all are Master’s-prepared nurses who are returning to become Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP). 1 of the MSN to

  • Washington D.C. (March. 9, 2017)- The small group of Pacific Lutheran University students, standing huddled together in a jam-packed section toward the front of the National Mall, remained silent. Some shook their heads in disbelief. Others wore expressions of shock. Two couldn’t stop tears from…

    said. “But I decided that as long as I was going to be there, I was going to contribute to the democratic process and express an alternative perspective.” × × × President Donald Trump finished his speech by inviting the crowd to join him in his campaign slogan. As tens of thousands shouted in unison “make America great again,” a man ran up to two women standing 10 feet in front of the PLU students and punched one of them in the head. Both women were holding anti-Trump signs and shouted “not my

  • Originally published in 2005 For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took…

    no “animal studies program” in any American university. In fact, the phrase “animal studies” does not even exist except as I am here using it informally. Even making the comparison between animals and historically oppressed people is much more likely to offend the people involved than ennoble the cause of animals. This even though many feminists, like Carol J. Adams in The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Continuum 1990), have argued animals and women have both been

  • If season two of Sanditon showed us anything, it is that the eyes are easily deceived. After a season full of emotional manipulation through gaslighting and rakes disguised as men of gentility, the final episode retained a few surprises, including the revelation that Charles Lockhart…

    on my terms” (S2E3). The underlying historical reality being that most Black women living in Regency England did not have control over their depictions. In eighteenth-century Europe and the Americas it would have been common enough to see engravings of Black people who had escaped slavery and written about their experiences, such as Olaudah Equiano, and, later in the nineteenth century, to see photographs of Frederick Douglass, Ellen and William Craft, and Harriet Jacobs, to name a few. Most

  • Students with a serious career interest in cancer research, either as a clinical scientist or laboratory-based research scientist are encouraged to apply for the NIH/NCI-funded (5 R25CA023944) Pediatric Oncology Education (POE) Program . A primary goal of the POE program is to encourage students to…

     POE home page contains links to the program application. The deadline for receipt of all 2022 application materials is February 1, 2022. Early application is highly recommended, since completed applications may be reviewed on a rolling basis. Members of under-represented ethnic minority groups and women are particularly encouraged to apply, since one of the major long-term program goals is to increase the diversity of persons engaged in oncology research and practice. Read Previous Caltech WAVE

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 27, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University welcomes its first Doctor of Nursing Practice cohort to class orientation on May 28. The DNP, which prepares graduates in the advanced-practice specialty area of Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), already has been ranked as one of the top…

    Practitioner (ARNP) licensure. In the State of Washington, ARNPs have independent practice and prescribing authority.About the 2015 DNP Cohort Total enrollment: 15 (13 women and 2 men). Average GPA: 3.54. Average age: 37.3 (students range from 28 to 55). 9 students with a BSN are starting in the BSN to DNP track—all are in the Family Nurse Practitioner program. 6 students with an MSN are in the MSN to DNP track—all are Master’s-prepared nurses who are returning to become Family Nurse Practitioners (FNP). 1