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Foundation and other funding sources support the project. “Although millet is a culturally and nutritionally important food in Asia and Africa, it’s not commonly grown in western agriculture, so there’s not a lot of research,” Laurie-Berry says. A similar process of genetic experimentation refined rice production around 50 years ago. “After we figure out which genes control yield, the center will cross-breed those traits into disease-resistant varieties adapted for growth in India or Africa,” she says

production then moved to New York and he lost track of it. Five years later, Hobson decided that it was time to go to New York City. He arrived in New York on a Friday in fall 2008. The following Monday, he was trying out for parts in “Next to Normal,” the renamed “Feeling Electric.” Feeling he might look too young for the part, he donned a suit and tried to grow a beard for his first audition. After that Monday tryout, he got a callback. And then another. After several months, he was offered the role of

, Regency Room Join the conversation with PLU staff, faculty and community partners as they consider questions of vocation and justice centered around food production and consumption. 4:30 p.m.: Lute Talks: What’s Your Passion? and storytelling workshop | Session III Anderson University Center, Room 201 6 p.m. Keynote speech: Dune Ives: “How PLU Prepared Me to Tackle Some of the World’s Biggest Challenges” Anderson University Center, Regency Room Ives discusses her journey from graduate school at PLU to

knew he wanted to study music, but he wasn’t interested in teaching.“At the time I was doing a general music major and considering minoring in communication or business,” Lindhartsen said. “But through my involvement with LASR (PLU’s student radio station) I was able to explore the music community and learn about careers outside of composition, performance and education.” He credits conversations with music professor Greg Youtz, an inspirational songwriting and production course, and his experience

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with students, as a judge for business plan competitions and as an organizer of E-Business Day, an event connecting students to business leaders. Of course, he’s a leader himself. His first start-up, the e-commerce company Liveclicker, was co-founded in 2008, and sold in July 2018. Foster also founded two leading trade groups, the Video Commerce Consortium and the Email Marketing Roundtable. Foster began his career as one of the first employees at WhatCounts, an email marketing technology

, students may become more engaged when there are opportunities to get creative or to personalize the project to their individual interests. For example, you may consider letting students share research by creating a video documentary, a journal article, or a web page. Debate and Discussion: To keep students engaged, you may want to post a trending news story or controversial idea for debate or discussion in an online forum. Some cognitive dissonance can peak student interest and push them to analyze

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