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Ph.D. positions for research Across the disciplinary lines of soft matter physics, granular physics, and earth's near-surface processes Posted by: nicolacs / October 11, 2021 October 11, 2021 Fully-funded Ph.D. positions are available in the Ferdowsi Research Laboratory within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston. Positions are available with start date as early as Spring 2022 and Fall 2022. Some of our active research areas are experimental and
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Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund , a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However,…
, or Entrepreneur? We asked Mariken if she was ready to describe herself as an up-and-coming designer or if another label was a better fit. “To be honest, terms like designer and entrepreneur still feel a bit too big for me,” Mariken replied. “What pushed me to start ELSK the Studio was simply a desire to be creative and to do something on my own that didn’t feel like office work or a traditional job.” This sentiment about doing something unconventional is typical among students in the Innovation
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SPANAWAY, Wash. (June 25, 2015)— On the grassy fields outside of the Sprinker Recreation Center at 9:30 a.m. the temperature has already climbed to the mid-80’s. Day two of Success Soccer Camp has begun, and over 200 campers ages 6-17 are already enthusiastically working up…
youth clubs or college scouts), but this is a camp about people, values, and positivity,” Hacker tells me. “I feel like so often we coach the fun out of kids,” Hacker continues. “We put this insane focus on winning, outcomes, and making it to the next level. “I want them (campers) to challenge themselves to enjoy the process, I want them to love the game and to enjoy watching other people succeed.” For Hacker, who serves on the National Advisory Board for the Positive Coaching Alliance and on the
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PLU maintains an open door with a world superpower, empowering students to learn about politics and culture off the beaten path in a distinct region of the country.
unique for college students to study in China; many institutions have programs based in the two major cities in the eastern part of the country — Beijing and Shanghai. PLU’s program, however, is located in western China, in Sichuan’s provincial capital. That, he says, is distinct. “It’s far from those cosmopolitan centers,” he said. “It’s somewhat off the beaten path, though maybe a little bit less so since we started the program.” At the time the program began, Chengdu was an area of the country
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November 5, 2014 Highly Decorated U.S. Army Veteran Shares His Journey From Service to PLU Steve Shumaker, a Political Science major at PLU who served in the U.S. Army for 12 years, tosses the coin at the Nov. 8 Military Football Game at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Now a Political Science Major, Steve Shumaker Will Speak at PLU’s Veterans Day Celebration on Nov. 11 By Shunying Wang ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 6, 2014)—Steve
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PLU Flute Studies fosters a vibrant and exciting environment for flutists to continue their musical growth.
PLU Flute Studies PLU fosters a vibrant and exciting environment for flutists to continue their musical growth.The Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble’s latest project is music to our ears.See upcoming flute events hereInformation on Music ScholarshipsFollow us on Facebook!
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PLU alumnus Scott Foss ’91 serves as a top paleontologist for the Department of the Interior.
, he’s a senior paleontologist at the Department of the Interior. Foss serves as a policy adviser and resource director in Washington, D.C., 30 years after his dream began. “Working on the bureaucratic side we call ourselves ‘paleocrats’ because we’re actually interpreting the science for government,” Foss said. “Field research was what I always wanted to do, but a big part of what I do now is coordinate everything that goes on in the field.” Foss earned his research and resource management chops on
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Two years before he founded the only local peace prize in the nation, Thomas Heavey ’74 was in the middle of a war.
security think tank to connect military researchers, humanitarian organizations, politicians, journalists and many other stakeholders interested in peace work and security issues. She stressed that peace is about building bridges, and the only way to do that is with intentional, constructive dialogue: as a tool for understanding, not necessarily for pursuit of agreement. “I think the notion of what peace is will be different from person to person,” she said. “For me it has to do a lot with discourse
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 23, 2016)- Imagine using bananas and a circuit board to create a piano. Absurd? Thanks to the maker movement and some creative minds, it isn’t. Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Education & Kinesiology is bringing that creative spirit to campus April 12…
music or play computer games with makeshift controls. “Tinkering is terribly important,” McQuinn said. “All learning is built on prior understanding. That’s a 21st century skill.” Even more important, McQuinn added, is preparing students for the ever-changing world of technology. “We have no idea what tools they’re going to be using when they graduate from college. They haven’t been invented yet,” he said. “(Students) have to have those self-teaching skills. That’s a big part of why the maker
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