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science and engineering problems critical to stewardship science. The DOE NNSA LRGF connects professors and students working in fields relevant to the DOE lab system with laboratory scientists, fostering collaborative research relationships. The program will strengthen these university-laboratory links through an unusual and exciting provision: fellows will work and study in residence at one or more of four approved DOE NNSA facilities for a minimum of two 12-week periods. Longer stays are highly
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awards for its intense and critical engagement with contemporary issues. In 2013, Sandnes was named to the Norwegian government’s commission for the marking of the 100-year anniversary of women’s right to vote, and was responsible for the publication of Norsk likestillingshistorie 1814-2013, a history of women’s equality from 1814 to 2013. She is presently the director of the Norwegian think tank Manifest. Cathrine Sandnes lives in Oslo, Norway. The Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture is an endowed lecture
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interested in the learning and teaching of secondary mathematics. Participants explore the Hungarian pedagogy, in which a strong and explicit emphasis is placed on problem solving, mathematical creativity, and communication. Why Summer@BSME? Today’s teachers are expected to provide students with opportunities to struggle productively towards understanding, and the Hungarian pedagogy has the potential to play a critical role in this endeavor. At Summer@BSME, we are excited for our participants to develop
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, winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press, as well as a critical study of William Stafford, Writing the World (Oregon State University Press). She edited (with Ted Kooser, former U. S. Poet Laureate) an anthology of bird poems: The Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press). In addition, she edited three collections of short nonfiction: In Short; In Brief; and Short Takes (all W. W. Norton). A fourth anthology—Brief Encounter, co-edited with Dinah Lenney—is forthcoming from W. W
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Student-Faculty Publication: Bringing a Berry Back from the Land of the DeadAn Environmental Studies capstone has led to a co-authored publication for Kimberly Wogahn (’14) and Religion Professor Suzanne Crawford O’Brien. Wogahn’s senior capstone in Environmental Studies provided a critical assessment of the (predominantly Euroamerican) organic and slow-food movement, placing it in contrast with efforts to improve food accessibility for marginalized and at-risk communities. One aspect of her
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something stirring.” At Deb’s urging, she took the leap and applied, resolving to be as transparent as possible during the interview process–on all fronts–to test if PLU would be the right fit. Pastor Jen recalls that she went into the interview thinking “I’m just gonna be me, and then I had a sense that PLU really was honest with me too, about who this community was, what it was longing for. And so I felt a lot of energy and synergy about our values.” Her arrival on campus caused a splash. Publications
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do alumni have to say about their experience in the seminar? “Being able to participate in this seminar, to make time for these conversations, and to be in a space where we could talk about our teaching and learn from one another was invaluable to me.” “I thoroughly enjoyed reading what my fellow participants were thinking about and learning from the connections they were seeing between our life as faculty at PLU and the issues raised by the readings.” “The reading has been really relevant and
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PLU’s individualized major pathway, she is the university’s first graduate with a major in innovation studies. Innovation Studies at PLUCourses in the Innovation Studies minor teach fundamental skills like design thinking, collaboration, and building an entrepreneurial mindset. You then form teams and develop your own solutions to contemporary problems and strategic opportunities. An Innovative Major Ambachew’s family moved to the United States from Ethiopia. She first heard about PLU from her older
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PLU’s Earth & Diversity Week. Steen Family Symposium Steen Family Symposium on Environmental Issues April 17-19 | Free and open to the public Established in 2022 through a gift from David ‘57 and Lorilie Steen ’58, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for the purpose of contributing to educate for “lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care — for other people, for their communities and for the
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sciences divisions, and the School of Business. “The heart of the university is its intellectual life, which is invisible,” said Patricia O’Connell Killen, provost and dean of graduate studies. “The research reception is one of the best ways we have of displaying the really exciting thinking and problem-solving and framing of new knowledge that our students engage in with faculty.” Geosciences professor Jill Whitman added that tangible representations of the research work, such as posters and papers
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