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PLU biology professor Amy Siegesmund receives national teaching award Posted by: nicolacs / September 14, 2022 Image: Image: PLU Professor of Biology Amy Siegesmund says she takes great joy in building learning communities with students that explore how the microbial world is intricately tied to our lives. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) September 14, 2022 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University Professor of Biology Amy Siegesmund is the recipient of the American

April 25, 2008 One person can make a difference As he watched his family drive away down a dirt road in Kigali, Rwanda, Carl Wilkens thought he’d seen them in a few days, a week tops. But it was April 10, 1994, and Wilkens – he only American out of 257 who stayed in Rwanda through the genocide that claimed one million lives in three months – would not see his family until after the horror had ended. It was tempting to get on the convoys to the border of nearby Burundi, he told a packed audience

-prize winning poet held an audience in a packed Lagerquist Concert Hall spellbound for an hour as she read from her work, a collection of poems spanning over 45 years. Oliver won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for her collection of poetry “American Primitive.” Her first collection, “No Voyage, and Other Poems,” was published in 1963, although the thin and silver-haired Oliver told the audience last week she has always written, even as a child. She also has been more comfortable in the outdoors

, 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

July 8, 2008 Spanning the globe during J-Term 2008 In January more than 400 students were sojourners in 21 countries across the globe as once again PLU classes convened on all seven continents. ANTARCTICA Journey to the End of the Earth From the great South American city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the tip of the continent in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, students explored some of the grandest scenery in the world. Patagonia served as a jumping-off point for 11 days in Antarctica – all

, who gave the large initial gift. The fundraising quickly topped the $600,000 mark. Mary Baker Russell gave a substantial gift and the final $300,000 was given by the Gottfried & Mary Fuchs Foundation of Tacoma. The Fuchs organ, as well as Dahl and PLU organist Paul Tegels were recently mentioned in the current edition of “The American Organist.” The organ – completed in 1998 – is what drew Tegels to campus. He was awed by the size and power of the instrument, which includes playing not one, but

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