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TACOMA, WASH. (June 15, 2016)- Kate Deines ’16 is a natural on the soccer field and has a long résumé to prove it. She played at the local, college, national and international level, garnering recognition until her retirement from the sport in 2015. When Deines…
background in and knew nothing about.” Deines seems to have started on the right foot with her new identity. She earned her first badge of honor in April when the Puget Sound Business Journal and the Seattle Foundation presented her with the Women of Influence Award. The program “shines the spotlight on local businesswomen, community leaders and philanthropists who are a force in the region,” according to the publication’s website. “I am honored and so humbled to receive this award,” Deines said. “I
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Online Learning at Pacific Lutheran University. Online and blended programs for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students extend the university’s mission beyond campus borders,
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For some, summer is a time for play. For others, it’s a time for work. But for many at PLU, it’s a time for a little bit of both — through science.
hazards. Denham was an aircraft mechanic in the Air Force. She found a home in the geosciences department after returning to school from her service. “When I started going back to school I really found a love in geology and this summer has really brought that home to me,” Denham said. “It has helped me understand that I am doing something that I really am passionate about. It doesn’t really feel like doing work when you’re doing something that you like to do.” And the work that Wilcox, Denham and
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More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.
force in the United Kingdom. The interaction epitomizes the goal of the program at Bjørknes: to put local practitioners in front of the students and draw connections across borders. “Everything feels so relevant,” Corinne Donohue-Mercie ’20 said of the curriculum. Next up, the students headed to an informal brown-bag seminar ― a theoretical debate between faculty members. Students lounged on orange couches, some snacking on their lunches, as their professors pitted optimism against pessimism
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Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war.
, regarded as the voice of black Tacoma for more than 30 years, mentored two generations of black civic leaders, serving as a vital force in Tacoma’s 50-year drive for justice and diversity. The organization honored Dixon as its 2015 laureate in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize. Theresa Pan Hosley Hosley was nominated for her initiative, persistence and long-term leadership of Tacoma’s Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation. The
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, Ph.D. Andrea Munro, Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry Justin Lytle, Ph.D. Andrea Munro, Ph.D. Materials & Polymer Chemistry Justin Lytle, Ph.D. Andrea Munro, Ph.D. Dean Waldow, Ph.D. Organic Synthesis Dean Waldow, Ph.D. Neal Yakelis, Ph.D. Chemistry students at PLU get hands-on experience using our suite of modern research-grade instruments, including: 500 MHz Fourier-transform nuclear magnetic resonance (FT NMR) spectrometer atomic force microscope (AFM) gas chromatography / mass spectroscometer (GC/MS
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. 4:00 pm - Investigating the Effects of Glutaraldehyde on Lysozyme Crystal Structure with Atomic Force Microscopy Jace Mason, Senior Capstone Seminar Glutaraldehyde, a common cross-linking reagent used in biological sciences, was investigated for its role in stabilizing protein crystals for X-ray crystallography. A model lysozyme protein was used to grow crystals in a phosphate buffer solution at two pH values promoting the formation of a monocyclic tetragonal crystal structure. Optical
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Center Room 103)1:44 - Welcome1:45 pm - Investigation of the Phase Behavior of a Novel Diblock Copolymer Electrolyte System with Potential Applications in Lithium-ion Batteries by Atomic Force Microscopy Thomas Kolibaba, Senior Capstone Seminar Solid polymer electrolytes offer the possibility of combating some of the safety issues inherent in current lithium-ion batteries. However, in current polymer electrolytes, ionic conductivity is directly tied to segmental rearrangement of the polymer backbone
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award.Task Force working with and for Undocumented Students The Task Force working with and for Undocumented Students advocates for undocumented students by coordinating campus trainings, connecting the community to on- and off-campus resources, and eliminating barriers to student success. Upcoming workshops Thursday, Nov. 16 at 5 p.m. in AUC CK East The PLU community is invited to learn about strategies of support and best practices to work with and for undocumented students. Please RSVP to undocu
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. Administrative efforts to support undocumented students at PLU have been long standing, but in the face of a presidential administration unfriendly to immigrants in the United States, an official task force for PLU’s undocumented students was created. Its mission is to best support the needs of undocumented/DACA students. The task force is made up of faculty and staff and includes student representatives from the undocumented student organization called The Gold Group. Since their formation in November 2016
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