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  • in Rome,” he said. “But I’ve made good progress.” Now that his sabbatical is over, Dr. Torvend is balancing his roles as a researcher and an educator. “Many times,” he said, “it’s been student questions or a students’ insights that have actually prompted me to move in a new direction in my research.” Dr. Torvend’s teaching has long touched on these topics, with courses in theology of nature and Jewish and Christian views on the environment. He has also sponsored a variety of conferences at PLU

  • Bay, and a rainforest hike through Main Ridge Forest Reserve before concluding with the music, food and vendors of Sunday School — an open-air night market and street fair. All told, a whirlwind seven days of cultural immersion that inflamed old memories and friendships while kindling new ones. Take in the sights of Trinidad and Tobago “You don’t know what relationships are until you come here. This is a real, relational place,” said Hambrick, who regularly returns to the islands as PLU’s J-term

  • By:Karen Miller May 1, 2018 0 Veteran. First-gen. Trans. Academic. https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/05/rhys-jones-cover-1024x540.jpg 1024 540 Karen Miller Karen Miller https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2018/05/karen-miller.jpg May 1, 2018 May 21, 2018 Veteran. First-gen. Trans. Academic. After Rhys Jones ’16 dropped out of high school in Santa Rosa, California, he joined the Army looking for a new start. “Maybe this

  • sediment surfaces during the prewash as well as during sediment dissolution. This data can be used in the field to better understand river composition and the implications this may have on global climate change . 3:15 pm - Synthetic study of 2,2’-carbonyldiisoxazoldine: A Novel Route to Unsymmetric KetonesMycah Uehling, Senior Capstone Seminar Unsymmetric ketones as 6π electrocyclization substrates have come into a new phase of synthesis with the investigation of 2,2′-carbonyldiisoxazolidine

  • Continuing Education at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU). In his position, Dr. Foy provides leadership and administrative support for existing programs as well as strategic planning for developing new graduate degree and continuing education offerings. Dr. Foy also oversees PLU’s international recruitment and admission, which gives him opportunities to travel to China two to three times a year to visit current and prospective partner universities. One of PLU’s oldest university partnerships in China is

  • ice?” The first case study centers Robert Peary’s Arctic journey in 1909, using a source from the Geographical Review. The second reads from Claudia Aporta and Eric Higgs’ “Satellite Culture: Global Positioning Systems, Inuit Wayfinding, and the Need for a New Account of Technology,” and the last uses a study on double-ridges written by the scientists Culberg and Schroeder called “Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter’s moon Europa.” Then, through New Materialist philosophy

  • which to influence Mexicans throughout the nation in what would come to be known as lo mexicano. Charros and tequila were used liberally and strategically in movies that portrayed national behavior and accepted attitudes and ideologies. Specifically, songs about tequila performed by charros during this time were essential to the extensive influence of this new Mexican identity. The songs analyzed in this paper look specifically at songs about tequila that showed how this new identity affected

  • global courses and projects, and in 2013 created an innovative new course in the PLU School of Business that allows students to earn internship credit and participate in a unique, global project. In this course, students experience and grow in the areas of community building and engagement, outreach and education (locally and globally), fundraising, crowdfunding, and international nonprofit projects. The course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach blending business, philosophy, Hispanic studies

  • sociology and his encouragement as I applied to graduate school.” Provost Joanna Gregson remembers Arturo as the faculty colleague who asked her the most difficult question during her interview at PLU and the mentor who helped her gain confidence in teaching a new class outside her area of expertise by co-teaching it with her. “I have an indelible image in my mind of seeing Arturo on the steps outside Xavier as we headed into work, with him wearing his hat, carrying his briefcase, smiling, and asking

  • it a field—now it is, but a very, very small field.” A small field, maybe—but one with potentially huge impact. “She is on the ground floor of a relatively new field that has the possibility of making all kinds of great insights into cancer in the evolution of history,” Ryan said. As Hunt and other researchers unearth more and more ancient evidence—breast cancer in 3500 B.C. Egypt, osteo-sarcoma in a T. rex femur—Hunt has formed an intriguing theory: She believes cancer is inherent in human