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and forms of joyful expression.UPCOMING EVENTS Crow Ho Ho  Dec. 16 | 7:30 | Black Box Theatre (Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts) PLU’s student improv group, the Clay Crows, presents an evening of holiday themed improvised performance. Nordic Fest Dinner Dec. 19 | 5 p.m. | Scandinavian Cultural Center This year’s theme is “A Child’s Christmas Wish.” Evening will Celebrate Nordic Children’s Literature and traditional Scandinavian holiday food including glogg (warm, spiced win

. Zhu emphasized. On the first day of the competition, students picked from between three potential problems to solve and then spent the next 100 hours surveying academic literature, developing and testing mathematical models, and producing a paper to justify their reasoning and prove their models’ efficacy. While students can draw from books and online research materials during the contest, they cannot receive outside input on the problem and must rely on each other to generate a solution. Zhu said

biological family (in a way, an extension of myself) during the month of October back in 2004. It was the 26th, which was a Tuesday that year. I remember it like it was yesterday. This is such a personal story. Why was it important for you to write this book and share your memoir with readers? First, I wanted to offer my story to the growing body of literature celebrating adoptee voices. We hear from adoptive parents a lot about their experiences, but I feel like we need to hear from adoptees about

Africa program, Carrato is continuing a life of service looking outward. Born in Japan to an international businessman father, Carrato has fond memories of the country and the Japanese objects that decorated his childhood home. At PLU, Carrato majored in international business with a minor in English literature. “I love the liberal arts underpinnings PLU has,” he says. “The fact that I could be an English lit minor with an international business major at a school that had a professional business

requires.” “We spent a lot of time researching literature experiments to gain familiarity with the reactions we planned to run. In my case, they rarely went according to plan, but I learned something each time, which helped guide me toward the next step.” "These lessons extend outside the lab, and this kind of continuous learning and reevaluation is helpful in both academic and professional contexts," stated Lemma. Professor Yakelis and Donnelly working together in open lab in Rieke Science Center

story, which is not often talked about in education,” she says. Chan visited Seattle Public School high schools to talk to students, teachers and activists. She researched how the Eurocentric focus within history, literature and STEM education fields has affected people of color in damaging ways. For her achievement in film and activism, Chan won one of three $1,000 Black Education Matters Student Activist Awards (BEMSAA), presented by former Seattle Seahawk and bestselling author Michael Bennett

have included the Geopoliticization of Sex with my advisor, Dagmar Herzog, and The Era of the Witness: 20th Century Poland in Firsthand Accounts with Professor Malgorzata Mazurek at Columbia. I also took the American Literature Survey, a year-long intensive introductory course to complete my minor in U.S. history. The professor describes it as half 18th century salon, half bootcamp. Carli outside the Museum of Jewish Heritage, sporting her ID badge as an intern. I could not believe how little I

Changing Lives One Book at a Time with Professor Ned Schaumberg Posted by: hoskinsk / May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 By Kiyomi Kishaba '21English & Communication MajorNed Schaumberg is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) who teaches postcolonial and global literature, and researches the role of water in literary and environmental contexts. He could also save your life.According to his parents, Schaumberg’s journey to professorship began at the age of seven. When most