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Maintaining Student Engagement Posted by: bodewedl / August 25, 2015 August 25, 2015 by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer    The Northwest has experienced some beautiful weather lately and the effects of spring fever are soon to appear in the classroom. It can be difficult to focus on work when sunshine and warmer temperatures are beckoning us outside! Perhaps this is a good time to consider ways to keep your students interested and engaged in class activities. Below I have listed some

having a zero carbon footprint by 2020, and what each was doing to try to achieve that end. Professors also spoke on how they try to reinforce the message of sustainability in their respective fields and classes. One of the biggest challenges is to bring home the environmental impact of everyday habits, noted Brian Naasz, assistant chemistry professor and chair of PLU’s sustainability committee. Naasz recalled the blank looks he received from a class when he asked them where the power comes from to

August 5, 2010 BIOL 125/126: Molecules, Cells and Organisms/ Genes, Diversity and Ecology Name: Sean Boaglio Hometown: Longview, Wash. Major: Undeclared, leaning Biology Professor: Jacob Egge, assistant professor of biology Sean’s advice to first-year students: “Study with someone. It is a great way to meet people in your class. And when you explain something to someone else, it also helps you understand it better.” For students who want to enter PLU’s rigorous Health Sciences track, the first

August 26, 2010 New online textbook comparison program offers students a chance to compare, and save By Barbara Clements The Garfield Book Company wants students shopping for their books this fall to come to the bookstore site to shop and compare.   The GBC offers text book comparisons. The GBC has just launched a Website where students can find what textbooks each professor is requiring for their class, and compare how much that book will cost, used or new, at the bookstore, as well as how

fields and other projects from Regent Lisa (Miles ’84) and Tim Kittilsby ’84 last year. This first class facility will enhance the PLU baseball program by: This year, the focus will be on PLU’s baseball fields. So far, $10,000 has been raised for the new fields, with a deadline of $100,000 by May 31. PLU received a lead gift of $250,000 for the fields and other projects from Regent Lisa (Miles ’84) and Tim Kittilsby ’84 last year. This first class facility will enhance the PLU baseball program by

. Urrea visited Professor Jason Skipper’s class in the afternoon before taking the stage at a presidential inauguration event in Lagerquist Concert Hall to talk about his unusual upbringing which helped inspire his novel. “I think I became a writer partially because it was safer to stay inside to read,” Urrea joked. Urrea was born to an American mother and Mexican father in Tijuana, but moved to the U.S. after contracting tuberculosis, which ended up destroying his hometown neighborhood. It wasn’t

the guidance of Assistant Professor Mark Mulder, the students traveled to the northwest corner of the country to help build a well under the auspices of Living Water International, a Christian NGO that organizes well projects around the world. Living Water operates in 26 countries, and works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSb6gmwYvRw community by community to help resolve the world-wide clean-water crisis. The entire project was hatched in the fall of 2012 during a marketing class, where students

Olympian and advocate Elana Meyers Taylor to deliver PLU Commencement address Posted by: Zach Powers / April 25, 2023 April 25, 2023 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University will welcome Elana Meyers Taylor to the Tacoma Dome on Saturday, May 27 to deliver a Commencement address to the university’s graduating class. Meyers Taylor will share reflections inspired by her historic career as the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Olympics history and a tireless

, Struck reflects on her personal and educational experiences at PLU in our Q&A with her.How did you discover your passion for chemistry? When PLU went online, I took organic chemistry after general chemistry and loved that class, because it’s about figuring out different types of puzzles. I know organic chemistry is the class everyone is supposed to hate, but it’s my favorite, and I will die on that hill. Honestly, I knew chemistry was right for me after taking organic chemistry and having a ton of

and killed young Sikh men and orchestrated military operations on Sikh holy places. In class, she wrestled with the history of international relations—and why the global system allowed this to happen. “I try to bring the Punjabi Sikh topic into the classroom, as it’s under-studied,” she says. “I want to make a difference and have an academic understanding of these issues.” Sikhs can face discrimination in the U.S. due to appearances. They may stand out visually due to their five articles of faith