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  • The Intersection of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability Dr. Carolyn Finney addresses PLU’s University Conference 2014 on Sept. 3. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) At PLU’s University Conference 2014, UC-Berkeley Professor Shares Trailblazers’ Forgotten Stories—and Her Own Inspiring Path By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Dr.…

    had a sense of the color of my skin was when I was 9,” Finney said. “I was walking home from school with my little afro, highly unimpressive, and a cop stopped me and wanted to know where I was going. He said, ‘Do you work there?’ and I said, ‘No. I live there.’” Later, Finney said, she realized most people of color who lived—and worked—on land, like her parents, were invisible. “They never call themselves environmentalists,” she said. “So when we’re talking about sustainability, what is it we’re

  • The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program is a 10 week summer program designed to provide opportunities for undergraduate university students to gain experience in medical physics by performing research in a medical physics laboratory or assisting with clinical service…

    American Association of Physicists in Medicine 2021 Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program Posted by: alemanem / November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020 The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program is a 10 week summer program designed to provide opportunities for undergraduate university students to gain experience in medical physics by performing research in a medical physics laboratory or assisting with clinical service at a clinical facility

  • The Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (PBMS) at the Oregon Health and Science University offers many exciting opportunities in Biomedical Research through an individualized graduate program for training the next generation of biomedical scientists, readying them for changing challenges in science and scientific careers. PBMS…

    Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (PBMS) at the Oregon Health and Science University Posted by: nicolacs / October 13, 2022 October 13, 2022 The Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (PBMS) at the Oregon Health and Science University offers many exciting opportunities in Biomedical Research through an individualized graduate program for training the next generation of biomedical scientists, readying them for changing challenges in science and scientific careers. PBMS is fortunate to

  • The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program in biophysics is funded by the National Science Foundation to support ten highly qualified students to undertake interdisciplinary, supervised research projects at Clemson University, for a period of 10 weeks each summer. The projects are designed to give…

    Molten Salt Reactor Conference LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 2025 Fred Hutch Summer Undergraduate Research Program October 30, 2024 Allen Institute Summer Internship Program October 29, 2024

  • The review time is typically shorter than other categories of review (~6-8 days).

    reviewResearch using a wide range of methodologies can fall into this review category, including collection of data: from voice, video, digital, or image recordings made for research purposes; on individual or group characteristics or behavior (e.g., research on perception, cognition, motivation, identity, language, communication, religious or cultural beliefs or practices, and social behavior); from surveys, interviews, oral histories, focus groups, program evaluation, or human factors evaluation; and/or

  • All persons hired for a role that specifically requires teaching contact with students or professional library responsibilities will be classified as regular faculty or contingent faculty.

    given academic year. Regular Faculty Regular Faculty status applies to those persons whose major assignment is the teaching of courses as listed in the university catalog or the performance of professional librarian responsibilities. To qualify for this designation, a person must be contracted on a full-time or part-time tenure-eligible line. Regular faculty on sabbatical, other leaves of absence, or phased retirement will maintain their status as regular faculty. Regular faculty have the privilege

  • As you know, PLU went through a difficult process of prioritization this year, responding to lower enrollments and seeking to proactively budget for a sustainable future rather than wait until we reached emergency conditions. This led to hard conversations and hard choices, ultimately made by…

    retiring this year, pictured during his sabbatical on the Via Appia in Italy. We wish our colleague Eric Nelson a joy- and rest-filled retirement, well-deserved after thirty years of teaching and collegiality and work at PLU. His dedicated service, his strategic thinking, and his generous sense of humor will be missed. But we are happy that he and his wife Susan Rowan-Nelson—also a PLU graduate and a veteran professor— will be enjoying time on their boat on the Puget Sound. And we are very pleased that

  • Following PLU’s annual University Conference kick-off, our faculty members attended a number of breakout sessions, one of which was led by Teresa Ciabattari, chair of Women’s and Gender Studies and associate professor of Sociology. Here, Dr. Ciabattari helps us understand what we can do to…

    integration into the “social and intellectual fabric of an institution”; • commitment to the institution; and • commitment to the goal of earning a college degree (Hausmann, Schofield and Woods 2007). Belonging is a central part of these processes. Students’ sense of belonging can be encouraged in curricular and co-curricular realms of university experiences. Curricularly, course content, classroom experiences and interactions with faculty can enhance or undermine student belonging. Co-curricularly

  • UT Southwestern has an immunology graduate school opportunity that provides an educational and research experience.  The research areas range from understanding basic mechanisms of pathogen recognition and signaling, host-microbial interactions, molecular and cellular basis of auto-immunity and new strategies for cancer immunotherapy.  The application deadline for…

    , 2016. To find out more about the UT Southwestern Immunology Graduate Program visit:  https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/education/graduate-school/programs/phd-degrees/immunology/index.html Read Previous Summer 2017 Research Opportunities in Dallas, TX Read Next Summer 2017 University of North Texas Research Experience LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

  • TACOMA, WASH. (June 13, 2016)- Kiana Norman ’17 wears a lot of hats. She’s a singer, an actress and a writer. She’s a student, a sister and a daughter. A future world traveler, online journalist and theater critic, if all goes according to plan. But…

    Norman stresses that there’s one thing she’s not: “I’m not crazy.” Norman, a transfer student at Pacific Lutheran University who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2013 during her first year of community college, said she struggled with mental illness throughout high school. Without labels to place on it, she tried several antidepressants with no signs of improvement. The journey was long, challenging and disheartening. But she made it to the other side, and she has the letter to prove it. “Hey