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  • September 25, 2014 Q&A With Carrie Mesrobian MFA ’13 Rave Reviews Are Rolling in For Her New Book, ‘Perfectly Good White Boy’ By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Right out of the gate, Carrie Mesrobian’s first young-adult novel, Sex & Violence, racked up some serious accolades: •    2014 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist •    YALSA’s 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults nominee •    Cybils Best Young Adult Fiction finalist •    Winner, 2014 Minnesota Book Award, Young

  • Students practice hip hop dance technique, hip hop choreography, and learn the history of hip hop. Designed for students who have never taken a hip hop dance class before, as well as more experienced dancers. Repeatable for credit up to 4 times. Fulfills one course towards the FT GenEd Element. (2) DANC 287 : Special Topics in Dance Provides undergraduate students with new, one-time, and developing courses not yet available in the regular curriculum. The title will be listed on the student term-based

  • J.D. Vance is easy to read and understand but has many implications by the events that take place in the book.  As a first year student myself I feel as though this book is much easier to understand than the previous book and I believe it was hard for many first-year students to grasp the ideas in We Need New Names. When compared to Hillbilly Elegy, I feel as though the ideas of We Need New Names were more abstract for first-year students and Hillbilly Elegy is much easier for students to

  • ? Critical Race Theory and the (De)Construction of the PLU Narrative Dr. John Nunes, the newly elected president of Concordia College in New York City and the first African-American to serve as president of a Lutheran college in the western hemisphere, will give the keynote address, When Grace Meets Race: One Lutheran’s View of Racial Justice. The conference is free and open to the public. Go to the conference website for the complete schedule, presentation descriptions and speaker biographies.October

  • Center “I put off writing this simply because when I thought about how to convey the impact of the Women’s Center in my life, I became overwhelmed. How could I put into words how deeply the Center had impacted me, both professionally and personally? Would whatever I wrote do that justice? The following is my best attempt to do so: When I arrived as a new employee on the PLU campus in the fall of 2006, I was looking for a place to connect with the larger university community. I had made several

  • assist students whose backgrounds have historically been underrepresented in biomedical and clinical research to build necessary skills for their career interests in public health, medicine, and other related fields. Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine (New Hampshire) – The Dartmouth MD-PhD Undergraduate Summer (MPUS) Fellowship Program is an 8 week fellowship aimed at exposing Fellows to basic medical science research by conducting cutting edge research alongside MD-PhD students presently in

  • assist students whose backgrounds have historically been underrepresented in biomedical and clinical research to build necessary skills for their career interests in public health, medicine, and other related fields. Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine (New Hampshire) – The Dartmouth MD-PhD Undergraduate Summer (MPUS) Fellowship Program is an 8 week fellowship aimed at exposing Fellows to basic medical science research by conducting cutting edge research alongside MD-PhD students presently in

  • this first ballot are only preliminary. After preliminary votes on all candidates, each case is reviewed again, with attention to any new evidence and to the consistency of applied criteria. Then a final vote is taken on each case by secret ballot. The committee first reports the affirmative or negative character of each final ballot (but not the exact proportion of yeas and nays) to the provost, who is then invited to discuss with the committee those cases in which their judgment differs. An

  • cohort. “Faculty push them out of their comfort zone, while also supporting them. They can’t envision what they’ve not done. I could see it. They’ve exceeded my expectations.” The School of Nursing kept luring Molly Martin back. By the time she earned the university’s highest degree, she left with more than a shiny new title. The nurse practitioner for Providence Medical Group already earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing at Pacific Lutheran University. “PLU makes sure you’re in there

  • games (badminton, tennis, pickleball and/or racquetball), invasion games (soccer, team handball, lacrosse, and/or others), and target/fielding activities (softball, baseball, archery and/or bowling). (4) KINS 287 : Special Topics in Kinesiology To provide undergraduate students with new, one-time, and developing courses not yet available in the regular curriculum. The title will be listed on the student term-based record as ST: followed by the specific title designated by the academic unit. (1 to 4