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About two years ago, PLU professor Neva Laurie-Berry partnered with a world-class plant research center. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Mo., sends Laurie-Berry’s BIOL 358 Plant Physiology class millet seeds with random mutations. Student teams study plants in PLU’s warm, sunny…
students in analyzing lab-generated mutant seed populations in partnership with Danforth. Students care for the plants, recording the number of seedheads produced and any branches or unusual seedheads or leaf shapes. At the semester’s end, students collect seeds from each millet plant to mail back to Danforth, along with their findings.Expanding knowledge and opportunityThe Mutant Millets project refines Setaria viridis, a small, hardy grass that grows wild throughout North America. Otherwise known as
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Global studies major Cora Beeson ’24 spent four months in Indonesia last spring for a study abroad semester. Little did she know the research she conducted there would lead to a presentation at the esteemed 2024 Human Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame’s…
. Mikhiela Sherrod, the director of US domestic programs for hunger relief organization Oxfam America, was both the conference’s keynote speaker and the moderator for Beeson’s panel. The panel on female empowerment in organizations brought Beeson together with students who compared modern women’s cooperatives and researched girls’ education in Kenya. “It was rewarding to be part of this conference,” Beeson says. “I had the opportunity for my research to be acknowledged on this scale.” Beeson’s research
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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 28, 2020 ) — Cece Chan’s activism awakening came in high school. As a third-generation Asian young woman, she realized Seattle Public Schools’ majority-white institution and Eurocentric curriculum had damaged her own cultural understanding due to lack of representation within textbooks or…
and keynote speakers Jesse Hagopian and Tracy Castro-Gill, SPS Ethnic Studies Program Manager. Beth Craig, her 20th-century U.S. history teacher, is a favorite professor (so far). “She’s not afraid to talk about hard things,” Chan says, and Craig incorporates topics that interest the class. This quarter, Chan is also taking two of Maria Chávez‘s political science classes: “Latino Experience in America” and “Local State and Government.” Future Plans What’s next? For an upcoming film, Chan wants to
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inclusivity for their communities.” Love Without Limits was released in 2nd edition paperback and also on Audiobook with Jacqueline narrating in August, 2022. An active servant-leader in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Dr. Bussie spent the last twenty years teaching religion to undergraduates at ELCA colleges and serving as the founding Director of the Forum on Faith and Life at Concordia College. Every day she is amazed and grateful that gets to: 1) write and tell her story; 2) empower other
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8:15 a.m. | March 8 | Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts Who: Bob Ferguson Title: Washington State Attorney General Bio: Bob Ferguson is Washington State’s 18th Attorney
city of Cali, Colombia and adopted at eight months by a family from the Gig Harbor area in Washington state. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies/Spanish from PLU and his Master of Arts in Public Policy with an emphasis in Latin America from Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. He found his biological mother and her family in 2004 and has since become very involved in helping Colombian adoptees become more familiar with their country of origin. Currently he is teaching Spanish and
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When Matthew Conover ’19 was a student at PLU, he recalls someone telling him there were two types of software engineers: the ones who chose to chase the money, and the ones who had no other choice. “I fall into the latter camp,” Conover said.…
Manchester. The education half I would describe as interesting and the abroad part I would describe as amazing. I also think studying abroad helped me a lot because some of my closest coworkers have either been in Europe or from Europe, also South America. Having this experience behind me I think helped with connecting and not being “that American” as much. In our field it is becoming increasingly common to not just have teams in different countries, but to have a single team composed of people in
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Dr. Bradley W. Hart, Ph.D. – California State University, Fresno
award is $250. Congratulations to 2018’s Raphael Lemkin Essay Contest winners! First place: Teresa Hackler for her essay “It is Nice in a Developed Country Like America: Reflections on the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi and the Global Implications of Divisive Language. Second place: Katherine Wiley for her essay “People are Bad,” but…Exploring the Lessons of Genocide. Raphael Lemkin Lecture - Spring 2018Watch Lecture Here Raphael Lemkin Lecture 2017Raphael Lemkin Lecture - Spring 2017Watch 2017 Raphael
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By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org…
young person to learn more about programming and computational thinking. Use your organization’s resources to support computer science education broadly in the community. If you haven’t already done so, also give Hour of Code a try! Grace Murray Hopper would be pleased. Michael Halvorson, Ph.D., is Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History and author of the forthcoming book, Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America, 1970-1995 (ACM Books / Morgan
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PLU's MFT Department partners with local community mental health agencies and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor at each site.
therapist-in-training the opportunity to observe their colleagues perform therapy sessions from behind a one-way mirror. Students will meet with a supervisor for 2 hours per week to confer about cases and discuss any questions or concerns they may have. Visit PLU Couple and Family Therapy Center websiteExternal Practice Sites Affordable Counseling Center, Puyallup, WA The Affordable Counseling Center is tailored to meet the counseling needs of middle America, offering affordable services for children
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As the world was beginning to realize the enormity of COVID-19, two Pacific Lutheran University professors seized the 2020 moment to do significant research into the psychology of the pandemic. PLU Department of Psychology Chair Jon Grahe and his Statistics 232 students conducted a U.S.…
critical thinking, theory building, research methods, statistical analysis and using psychology in human context. The Bachelor of Science degree also is an excellent degree option for students with an interest in pre-medicine (including [psychiatry), behavioral health, cognitive neuroscience, or neuropsychology. Read Previous PLU’s Lathiena Nervo discusses her work and being named one of the “1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America” Read Next Q&A with Biology Major Brandon Nguyen ’21 LATEST POSTS
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