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, will support the development and implementation of the professional development workshops for teachers. Of the total, Whitman was awarded $127,006. Titled “Collaborative Research: Teachers on the Leading Edge: Linking K-12 Earth Science Teachers to EarthScope,” the project is a collaboration between PLU, the University of Portland, Central Washington University and Portland Community College. EarthScope is a 10-year program to explore the structure of the North American continent and advance

it was not enough to create an endowed position. That task was taken up by Audun Toven, who is a professor emeritus of Norwegian at PLU. Toven made it his goal during his tenure at PLU, and after he retired, to raise enough money for the endowment. “If it wasn’t for Audun, we wouldn’t be here today,” Anderson said. Just days before the May 17 announcement, Kim Nesselquist ’83, Consul of Norway for Washington and Idaho, and the executive director of the Norwegian-American Foundation, engaged in a

activist Maude Barlow to an assembled crowd in Lagerquist Concert Hall. “There’s lots of water, until there’s no water at all,” the keynote speaker of the 2012 Wang Symposium – Our Thirsty Planet, told the crowd. The address marked the inaugural PLU Norwegian-American Annual Lecture. “First and foremost, we are a planet running out of water,” Barlow said. “What we actually have to get our heads around is we are actually coming to the end of water.” In many parts of the world, rivers and fresh water

shut Read Next The Third Annual Jolita Hylland Benson Education Lecture – Catching up to Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning

Radio. Read Previous Learning to Brew Read Next PLU choral conductor winner of The American Prize for 2013 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU professors Ann Auman and Bridget Haden share teaching and learning experiences in China November 4, 2024 Lutes celebrate

large mouse with small ears and a long snout. Despite its looks, it is not a rodent or a shrew, but a marsupial without a pouch to carry its babies. Caenolestes sangay is part of the order Paucituberculata, an ancient group of South American marsupials different from the well-known opossums and Australian marsupials. Restricted to the Andes, very seldom seen in the wild, and with only seven species, the shrew-opossums are among the most enigmatic marsupials on the planet. The DNA clearly delimits

retailers capture local conversations about the stores with great success. “Venuelabs has changed the game for us,” said Tyler Pringle, Director of Digital and Social for American Golf. “It allows us to see intimately into the experience of our customers at each of our nearly 100 courses and properties.” In a press statement, Salesforce.com, which is now helping to fund Venuelabs, said it intends to use its new $100 million investment, Salesforce Ventures, to support companies that are involved with

degree from Yale and his Ph.D. from Harvard. During his research career in the field of psychology, Greenwald mainly has focused on implicit and unconscious cognition. He has received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and the Lifetime Achievement Award (William James Fellow) from the Association for Psychological Science and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other exciting speakers also are on tap for this year’s

, including in Mexico, and many of them are now teachers,” she said. “PLU also is fortunate to have four Mexican-identified faculty, including Adela Ramos, Chris Gerzso, Carmiña Palerm and myself, as well as a growing number of current students that self-identify as Mexican-American or Mexican,” Williams said. “For these reasons, and because of our collective dismay at the horror of these events and our sense of solidarity with teachers killed while seeking to improve the lives of their communities, we

military sexual trauma; the Tacoma Vet Center; the National Association for Black Veterans; Delta Sigma Theta Inc.; Joint Base Lewis-McChord Sexual Assault Prevention Response Program; The JBLM Sexual Harassment and Assault Response Prevention Program; Wounded Warrior Project, Seattle; and The American Legion and VFW. PLU, co-sponsor Delta Sigma Theta and all of the resource providers are very proud of Washington’s veterans, said U.S. Army veteran Michael Farnum, PLU’s Director of Military Outreach