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, PLU’s new director of The Center for Community Engagement and Service, at James Sales Elementary School, one of three schools where he is developing a mentoring program. Zylstra is PLU’s new director of The Center for Community Engagement and Service, which operates under the Career Connections department. His job, basically, is to connect PLU to the community, be it through working with faculty to support service-learning in a class, or talking with community leaders about opportunities and

major, decided that he was done with playing it safe. His real passion was the theater. So he switched and hasn’t looked back since. “Life is too short to do something you don’t love,” he said. On taking risks, Hobson stressed that is was better to fail spectacularly, rather than simply turn in mediocre work. “It’s better to attempt to be brilliant and fail, than just accept being mediocre,” he said. Read Previous Share your Zipcar experience for a chance to win! Read Next Learning about the next

as a part-time professor in Fall 2006, Todd now shares her passion for glaciers and rocks with her students. She takes advantage of PLU’s location, bringing students’ learning outside the classroom to places like Mount Rainier, where she takes her students snowshoeing in winter months and studying melt water through research projects over the summer. “During the summer months my students and I are clambering all over the mountain, collecting melt water samples and trying to learn more about

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

life—to Markuson, that means care for others—and he continues to do so today. “After being at PLU for four years and taking that to heart, I think what I am doing now is caring for a community, and it is greater depth of understanding what that means, and there is empowerment in that,” Markuson said. Recently accepted to medical school at the University of Washington, Markuson is eager to apply what he’s learning over this year of service. “Now I have this year where I’m not caught up in the

this mantra from Mark Twain: “Irreverence is the champion of liberty.” Paulson believes we can become disinterested in simply learning about global tragedies, and in today’s world of constant connectedness and coffee shop Wi-Fi, a lack of awareness no longer works as an excuse to ignore them. “Maybe,” Paulson says, “curiosity is what we need to stimulate.” Read Previous Choreography and Costumes Read Next Study Away Shots Taken ‘Round the World COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the

fellowships, which were awarded in March. Work began in June. She and other student researchers will be presenting the findings of their research at the Poster & Oral Presentation Session, Sept. 23 in the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, and subsequently during the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust-sponsored Twenty-Third Regional Conference on Undergraduate Research of the Murdock College Science Research Program in November. Eventually, Deane would like to go to medical school, and research like

diverse children of different ages. A date has not yet been set for her presentation. And the last speaker in the 2014-15 series will be PLU Psychology Professor Christine Moon, whose groundbreaking research into infants’ language learning has received national and international recognition. Her talk will be held at 2 p.m. April 24 in Xavier 201. In the past, PLU’s Department of Psychology has hosted premier scholars for the Colloquium. One of the most notable was Warner Schaie, acknowledged as one of

was one of the applicants selected to present her work, she couldn’t wait to share her findings with more people. “I had a lot of fun with my Capstone,” said Moran. “I really enjoyed it, and I felt like it was a great experience for me. I’m excited to showcase that work in another way. It’ll be fun to talk about this to a different audience.” Moran said she owes a lot to Travis. “She would be up at 10:30 on a Saturday night Google chatting with me [while I was] in Morken (Center for Learning and

knowledgeable and interested in their subject. “PLU professors genuinely enjoy educating and are capable of holding interest as well as teaching in a functional way because they are engaging and passionate about their subject matter.” Students enjoy the typical PLU teaching style that places a greater emphasis on discussion and group activities, explaining that discussion and activity time make learning much more exciting. Some PLU students said their professors “are not afraid to challenge us,” and all