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Major in Religion 32 semester hours RELI 499: Capstone Research Seminar (offered only in Spring semester) 8 semester hours RELI coursework from Line One: Christian Traditions (RC): RELI 212, 220-229,
. (4) RELI 227 : Introduction to Christian Theologies - RL, VW This course introduces contemporary theology and theological method while engaging topics such as the relation of faith and reason and the meaning of human suffering. This course focuses on a wide variety of theologies developed in the past 125 years from Europe, South and North America: Protestant, Catholic, feminist/womanist, Latin American liberation, and Black theologies. Students engage their own deepest convictions and beliefs and
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Daniel Amster, Senior Capstone Seminar Botryococcus braunii is a green algae capable of producing botryococcene using squalene synthase-like (SSL) enzymes.
Botryococcus braunii race B is a green colonial microalga that produces high quantities of organic hydrocarbon terpenes. One such hydrocarbon is botryococcene, whose structure consists of three terpene units and a branched terminal end alkene. Due to its abundance and the low carbon footprint of its production, botryococcene is an excellent candidate for investigation of its use as a precursor in the production of biofuels. E. coli have been genetically altered for the synthesis of botryococcene due to the
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A Statement related to Religious and Spiritual Identities and Practices (for Students, Faculty, and Staff) As a University rooted in the tradition of Lutheran Higher Education, enacting a mission of
of Inclusive Excellence Center for Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability Religion Department Human Resources Provost Office Student Life Dean of Students Office (including Office of Accessibility and Accommodation) Student Employment ++ Interfaith America (variety of resources relating to interfaith on campus) ELCA’s Interreligious Relations Website and 2019 statement, A Declaration of Inter-religious Commitment. Revised 7/18/22 Revised 8/11/20. Revised 8/12/19. For edits and revisions
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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,…
roots, much like Seattle or Tacoma.” Planning for the Future We asked Mariken what her future goals were, considering she has a successful venture going and a new-found passion for sustainable products. “First, I plan to come back to PLU for my senior year.” “I love the campus, the supportive faculty, and everything about being in America. Throughout the year, I worked with Professor Halvorson and Professor Mulder, and I’d love to get back to campus to see them and all the friends that I have met
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‘My journey into compassion fatigue’ Editor’s note: In this story, Katie Scaff ’13 writes about her experiences creating the documentary Overexposed – an examination of compassion fatigue, with two other students and her communications professor. The faculty-student research project exposes students to the realities of…
semester and that led me to a student-faculty research organization called MediaLab, for which Professor Wells, or Rob, as we call him, is the advisor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0VFDf2QJs4 I joined MediaLab in January 2010, and, in October of that year, I was paired with two other students to create a documentary. We chose compassion as our topic, which led us to the issue of compassion fatigue and in June 2011 we started on a three-week trip across North America. Our stop in Joplin was unplanned
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 13, 2016)- Kiana Norman ’17 wears a lot of hats. She’s a singer, an actress and a writer. She’s a student, a sister and a daughter. A future world traveler, online journalist and theater critic, if all goes according to plan. But…
prevention PLU Health Center American Psychiatric Association Mental Health America Find a psychologist Other recommended resources NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness), PLU chapter“It’s the older and slightly wiser you, four years into the future,” Norman’s column continues. “I’m writing this to hopefully shed some light on how you’re feeling at this moment, and hopefully to help you in your future.” How 19-year-old Norman felt wasn’t great. After her first year of high school was marked by an
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PLU alumnus Brian Lander ‘89 grew up in Washington State’s Tri-Cities. But in early 2020, Lander was far from his childhood home, as he helped meet urgent needs in Northwest Syria. Turkish troops, Syrian and Russian armies, and opposition forces negotiated and battled over resources…
what we’re doing, and came as staff struggled to come to grips with a new way of working, due to COVID-19,” he said. COVID’s health and economic impacts have more than doubled the world’s food insecure population—from 100 million to 270 million people. In Latin America, there are three times as many individuals seeking food assistance as experienced pre-pandemic, and African nations have seen a rise between 90 and 135 percent. “People were in desperate situations,” Lander said, explaining that the
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Nearly a year into his new role as PLU Associate Vice President of Advancement, George Zeno and I took a walk through Parkland and discussed one of my favorite questions, #WhyPLU? Zeno is essentially a community matchmaker for social progress. Mentored at the University of…
changing demography with the largest unincorporated region in the Northwest that brings with it resource-limited public schools, underdeveloped neighborhoods, and medically underserved populations that are seeing a decline in life expectancy. We are truly a microcosm of America. We contribute great things through our programs, faculty, students, and alumni but it’s important that we consider how we align those contributions to impact entire system structures and think about what it means to deliver as
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9:15 – 10:20 a.m. | March 9 Who: Eamonn Baker, Training Co-ordinator, Towards Understanding and Healing
accessing traditional foods for Tribal communities throughout North America. By utilizing a community-based participatory research approach she has worked to organize tribal community members in grassroots efforts towards strengthening sustainable food systems that are culturally relevant and nutritionally appropriate. Ms. Segrest earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Human Nutrition and Health Sciences from Bastyr University and her Masters of Arts Degree in Environment and Community from Antioch University
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if only electronically. We hope that this page will allow alumni to reconnect and current students to meet some of their predecessors. Please email us with pictures and stories to share.
young kids was quite an experience and the travel opportunities were fantastic. We adhered to the French vacation schedule because my school was sponsored by the French government, which afforded me lots of opportunity to travel. I traveled extensively in Central America, made a trip to Colombia and also to Cuba. When I returned from Costa Rica, I again entered the field of law enforcement. I had a desire to go to law school for several years and it was several years more before I committed myself
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