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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 3, 2017)- You know it’s a good class when even the professor goes home shouting: “You’re not going to believe what we learned today!” Joanna Gregson, professor of sociology, says she told her husband just that throughout her January Term course “Policing…
, ethics and discretion, race and policing, and use of force. “I can only speak to these areas to a certain degree,” Premo said, “so having someone who works directly in that specialty area gives the students an opportunity to ask questions to someone currently working in that area.” The roughly 20 students enrolled in the class claimed a variety of majors — including those outside sociology — such as communication, computer science, psychology and music. Mitch Perantie ’19, who intends to major in
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Paid Internship: Tacoma Environmental Services Laboratory at the Center for Urban Waters Posted by: Craig Fryhle / March 26, 2015 March 26, 2015 Paid student internship opportunity with the City of Tacoma Environmental Services Laboratory at the Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma. Candidates with a strong interest in gaining some laboratory knowledge, skills and experience. This position starts as summer internship, where the candidate can work part to full time, and then scales back to a part
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Interested in green chemistry/environmental toxicology? Awesome workshop in Portland this June! Posted by: yakelina / March 15, 2016 March 15, 2016 Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference is in Portland this June! Details on the student workshop: www.gcande.org | www.acs.org/greenchemistry | @ACSGCI | #gcande20 Read Previous Current students & recent grads: Summer job opportunity! Pre-college summer program instructor in Tacoma Read Next Paid summer school program in radiochemistry at OSU
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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…
convivial was popularized by Ivan Illich in his 1973 book, Tools for Conviviality. It is still surprisingly relevant.) For high school students who become interested in computing, there are a wide range of subjects that they can study in college to think about the implications of computational thinking in industry and society. We’re really at the beginning of a surge in computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, technical education, and the history and ethics of computing. Computer
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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…
was popularized by Ivan Illich in his 1973 book, Tools for Conviviality. It is still surprisingly relevant.) For high school students who become interested in computing, there are a wide range of subjects that they can study in college to think about the implications of computational thinking in industry and society. We’re really at the beginning of a surge in computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, technical education, and the history and ethics of computing. Computer
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By Michael Halvorson. On October 17, 2017, PLU alum Brad Tilden (1983) engaged with students, faculty, and alumni in a lively conversation about the past, present, and future of Alaska Airlines. The special event was organized as the 13th annual Dale E. Benson lecture in…
panel featuring Sergia Hay (Philosophy), Norris Peterson (Economics), Mark Mulder (Business), Bridgette O’Brien (Religion), and Michael Halvorson (History and Benson program chair). Most of the faculty also work together in the school’s Innovation Studies and Environmental Studies programs. The conversation was thoughtful and wide-ranging, including student questions on the pending merger with Virgin America, competition with Delta Airlines, pilot shortages, the moral obligations of an airline to
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Marine/environmental chemistry interest? Summer REU in Aquatic Chemical Ecology at Georgia Tech Posted by: yakelina / January 14, 2016 January 14, 2016 From Frank Stuart, Co-Director at Georgia Tech: We will be hosting 10 undergraduate researchers this summer at Georgia Tech in our REU program focused in Aquatic Chemical Ecology. We would like to ask for your help in publicizing this program to undergraduates, at Georgia Tech and elsewhere. Our program website is http://www.biology.gatech.edu
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PLU environmental studies students chart the challenges facing the nearby Clover Creek Watershed Posted by: Zach Powers / January 7, 2020 Image: PLU students in the Fall 2019 Environmental Studies 350 course take a quick photo break during a water sample collection excursion. (Photos courtesy of Claire Todd.) January 7, 2020 By Zach Powers '10Marketing & CommunicationsAt Pacific Lutheran University, natural science research can lead students all the way to Antarctica and back again. For
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 26, 2016)- Joel Zylstra said Pacific Lutheran University’s partnership with the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity began with a cup of coffee at 208 Garfield four years ago. Zylstra, director of Center for Community Engagement & Service (CCES), said his perception of Habitat…
. The Woods became the subject of an Environmental Advocacy class project for which students traveled to the Woods and wrote collaborative group projects based on the development. The project encouraged students to examine the development from multiple perspectives, including design and the social formation of community. “There’s been an educational aspect there, which led to some AmeriCorps engagement through that,” Stockstad said. “Some of our AmeriCorps members that have worked at Habitat have
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TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 1, 2016)- Bryanna Plog ’10 seems to have done it all in her years after Pacific Lutheran University – teaching English abroad in Colombia, writing books about travel and interning for a conservation nonprofit. But now, she says, serving as a park…
communication and global studies at PLU. She also double minored in environmental studies and English writing. Her day-to-day job includes leading tours and and answering many questions, among other duties. “It’s pretty awesome to see a 7-year-old kid sharing a cool fact about Yosemite that he remembers from when you told him,” Plog said. She said her job is a way of life — hiking, walking, enjoying the great outdoors, interacting with diverse visitors, living where she works and focusing on education and
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