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. Whalen has been very active at PLU, finding opportunities to learn more about the justice system. She recently served as the president of Scales of Justitia. Whalen and club members hosted a couple of events, including a virtual law school panel with representatives from the University of Oregon, University of Washington, Lewis & Clark College, Willamette University, Gonzaga University and Seattle University.PLU Launches Pre-Law MinorPLU will offer a pre-law minor in Fall 2022. The university has

).” As part of the 46-member 2015 Class of Emerging Leaders, Griek will receive exclusive access to a pool of grant funds designed to support innovative approaches to whole-child education and to help emerging leaders grow professionally. The 2015 Emerging Leader class is diverse both professionally and regionally. The class includes educators from 21 states, Indonesia and Pakistan who hold a variety of roles, including principal, teacher, consultant, curriculum director and administrator. Griek is

inspire students — and keep them up at night.SCENARIO DAY Starting in the fall of 2020, students began working in pediatrics and OBGYN simulations. Nursing major Rion James Bird ’21 still remembers his first simulation lab scenario — caring for a baby with a cleft palate. First, he shared the news with a pregnant mother manikin about her child’s diagnosis, then helped the mother support the infant manikin with feeding modifications and emotional support. The patient manikins, who can breathe and blink

NNSA LRGF connects professors and students working in fields relevant to the DOE lab system with laboratory scientists, fostering collaborative research relationships. The program will strengthen these university-laboratory links through an unusual and exciting provision: fellows will work and study in residence at one or more of four approved DOE NNSA facilities for a minimum of two 12-week periods. Longer stays are highly encouraged, up to or including pursuit of thesis studies at a chosen site

science and engineering problems critical to stewardship science. The DOE NNSA LRGF connects professors and students working in fields relevant to the DOE lab system with laboratory scientists, fostering collaborative research relationships. The program will strengthen these university-laboratory links through an unusual and exciting provision: fellows will work and study in residence at one or more of four approved DOE NNSA facilities for a minimum of two 12-week periods. Longer stays are highly

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

world and returned with a mission: to raise money to open an expanded training center for students in Shillong, Meghalaya, in northeast India. In November 2010, Bryant spent two weeks teaching students at a village training center called Bellefonte Community College (BCC) in Shillong. There, her eyes were opened to pressing and extraordinary educational needs. “High school drop out rates are at 70 percent,” according to Bryant. “There’s no accountability system there.” Of the students who stayed and

learn to drive—they find themselves stopped by a system that does not recognize their long-term identities or their lack of choice in becoming undocumented. Imagine that. Then imagine yourself back in high school and suddenly finding that although all of your friends were doing these marvelous grown-up activities, you could not. After recovering from the initial shock, we would want people to understand our story, to treat us with dignity and respect and to welcome us legally into the American

. Abrams and Holm are also working to log artifacts found at the homestead into the Burke Museum’s curatorial system. Holm says she enjoyed the hands-on experience she gained through the time in the field. “This workshop gave me a good opportunity to be exposed to sets of skills that are really marketable and vital to archaeological work,” Holm said. Abrams expresses particular gratitude for Taylor’s help and mentorship during the workshop. “(Taylor) is a really good teacher, especially in the field

Education Coordinating Board. And then I also do some work in the K-12 system, including teacher discipline litigation. What might an average week in the office for you include? Hmm, it varies. There really is no average week for me. Large institutions deal with a variety of problems and they have varied calendars throughout the year, so my average week is about as varied as the average week at a college campus. All the different things that are happening on college campuses are coming through my office