Page 55 • (584 results in 0.178 seconds)

  • Benson Summer Research Fellowship ProgramWhat are you doing next Summer? If you’re interested in history, economics, business, health care, innovation studies, or a range of allied topics, you may want to consider a Benson Student-Faculty Summer Research fellowship, which will pay you for conducting research with a PLU faculty member. Benson research fellowships are sources of funding for undergraduate students who want to work 20 hours a week with faculty members on a project of mutual

  • University of Maine to pursue a MA in Economics. He received a research and teaching assistantship so his tuition is paid for and he will be receiving a living stipend. He will also be conducting research under Dr. Jonathan Rubin over the summer. Nellie Moran, 2015Nellie Moran ’15 is currently Colorado Senate Majority Leader’s Policy and Communications Advisor. Moran, a double major in Economics and French, began her initial research in 2013 with a paper she wrote in one of her classes. This blossomed

  • modeled Rilke’s wisdom was the great Norwegian anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl.  In 1939, he was conducting research along the coast of British Columbia in a effort to understand the northern Pacific ocean currents, when he as called home because WW II had broken out in Europe.  In 1998, 59 years later, and at age 83, Heyerdahl came to be our PLU commencement speaker, and he arrived three days early so that he could visit BC and continue his research.  Heyerdahl personified our great human

  • development, I find myself returning to the theories and data that I encountered during that semester in Norway, as well as the lessons I learned about conducting field research. Though I’ve been moving around a lot over the past few years, I carry these memories, relationships and experiences with me wherever I go. Whether or not they shifted the course of my current trajectory is hard to determine, but they have all made my life richer, and I can’t wait to return to Norway – hopefully in the near future

  • Musical Arts or Bachelor of Arts degree. These music degrees combine music with a “related field.” Instead of a senior recital, you’ll do a “capstone” presentation showing synthesis between music and your other area of interest. The basic music core curriculum is required but overall there are less hours of music. You can also get a degree in music education, which will equip and certify you to teach K-12 music, instrumental or choral. PLU Jazz Questions and AnswersWhat does jazz at PLU offer compared

  • methods. Over the span of her career, she has published on such topics as teenage mothers, incarcerated mothers, and divorced women. Since 2010 she has been conducting participant observation research with the authors of romance novels, examining the gendered aspects of the career and how women experience writing what has been described as the most popular, least respected literary genre. At PLU, Gregson has a long record of faculty governance and leadership experience. She has served on and chaired

  • and conducting a program evaluation, as well as considerations when contracting for program evaluations, as many educational grants and programs require outside evaluation. (2) EDUC 731 : Educational Leadership: Instructional Leadership In this course, students will learn both the field's best knowledge of what high-quality learning is and how to generate it at a systems level. Students will read, discuss, collect and analyze data around learning at all levels of a school district's system

  • “vulnerable populations” and are extended similar protection as research participants. For more information on these groups, click here. + Conducting the study in another country or in a language other than EnglishThere is supplemental HPRB form for this type of research (part of online application). Research done outside of the US, especially in non-western societies or places where the participants do not speak English poses some problems in obtaining written documentation of informed consent. In these

  • permanent, substantial partitions or screens so arranged that only qualified persons will have access to the space within reach of the live parts. Any openings in such partitions or screens must be sized and located, that persons are not likely to come into accidental contact with live parts or to bring conducting objects into contact with them. By location on a suitable balcony, gallery, or platform elevated and arranged so as to exclude unqualified persons. By elevation of 8 feet or more above the

  • research in Ecuador and spent his final semester studying away in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he discovered his knack for conducting research in Spanish-speaking countries. Taylor-Mosquera earned degrees in Spanish and global studies, building lasting friendships with PLU faculty members along the way. They represented what he aspired to become, he says. “There were a handful of professors — Carmiña, Michael Zbaraschuk, Tamara Williams, Teresa Ciabattari, Jim Predmore and a few others — who I looked to as