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About two years ago, PLU professor Neva Laurie-Berry partnered with a world-class plant research center. The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, Mo., sends Laurie-Berry’s BIOL 358 Plant Physiology class millet seeds with random mutations. Student teams study plants in PLU’s warm, sunny…
known as green millet, the grain is a high-protein food staple and more nutritionally dense than rice. The National Science Foundation and other funding sources support the project. “Although millet is a culturally and nutritionally important food in Asia and Africa, it’s not commonly grown in western agriculture, so there’s not a lot of research,” Laurie-Berry says. A similar process of genetic experimentation refined rice production around 50 years ago. “After we figure out which genes control
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The UW SHPEP (Summer Health Professions Education Program) will run this summer, 2019! The UW SHPEP program dates are June 24 th to August 2 nd , 2019. The application is open now (Dec 1). The deadline to apply is Feburary 15 th , 2019 .…
Travel expenses if needed (and within guidelines) $600 stipend Please visit shpep.org to apply. More information about the Seattle site: http://cedi-web01.s.uw.edu/pre-health-programs/shpep/ Read Previous Nuclear Engineering Science Laboratory Synthesis (NESLS) Program at ORNL Read Next TECBio REU at University of Pittsburgh LATEST POSTS Mississippi State University Now Accepting 2025 Summer REU Environmental Science Applications November 15, 2024 Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate
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The Molecules Meet Materials REU site at the University of South Dakota will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during summers 2022-2024. In this program, participants pursue collaborative research projects, with a focus on chemistry at interfaces in which molecular processes occur…
://usdchemistry.com/reu/ to apply or read more about the research opportunities in this REU. Read Previous Renewable Energy Scholarship Read Next USM School of Polymer Science and Engineering REU LATEST POSTS Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship October 30, 2024 Allen Institute Summer Internship Program October 29, 2024 Summer Research – Army HBCU-MI SPARK October 29, 2024 IMOD Summer Research Opportunity for Undergrads October 17, 2024
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Julian Kop spent the summer of 2023 at Pacific Lutheran University looking up at the night sky and the stars. Kop earned an opportunity to do summer research with professors Sean O’Neill and Katrina Hay at PLU’s W.M. Keck Observatory , working some nights between…
is very good at one-on-one talks and working with individual students, was just great,” he said. Kop’s interest for science grew when he took science courses through the Running Start program while he was a student at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. As part of Running Start, Kop attended Tacoma Community College, where he majored in astronomy and took courses that interested him. But by the time he got to PLU, as a transfer junior, Kop was ready to take on a challenging schedule as an upper
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The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA LRGF) is currently accepting applications through March 17, 2021. The DOE NNSA LRGF provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to U.S. citizens pursuing degrees in fields relevant to the stewardship of the…
stockpile − namely engineering and applied sciences, physics, materials, and mathematics and computational science. Fellowships include at least two 12-week research residencies at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, or the Nevada National Security Site. Fellows are encouraged to extend these residencies to carry out thesis research and other studies at the DOE NNSA facilities. Renewable up to four years, the fellowship is open to U.S
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Students- The deadline for the $2000 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect Scholarship has been extended to May 15. Please consider applying! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vAqpwv1EGik22b63KOmU6IcsQQ0wAM1_/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110557007756855628016&rtpof=true&sd=true Eligibility: Applicants must be currently enrolled in a college or university in the ACS Puget Sound Section (for a list of colleges in our…
list of colleges in our section, visit our website) with a chemistry curriculum. This scholarship is specifically for underrepresented minority students in chemistry who identify as one or more of the following: Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous (American Indian, Alaskan native), Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (including Filipino), African American/Black. Students must have completed one year of general chemistry and intend to pursue a major in chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemistry, or
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Parker Brocker-Knapp ’23 grew up in Portland, but Puget Sound never seemed far—thanks to close family ties to PLU. We sat down with Brocker-Knapp to learn more about how this senior made the most of his time at PLU. How did you choose PLU? I…
Previous Law school-bound Jasneet Sandu ’23 is passionate about global studies, anthropology, computer science and religion Read Next Communications and psychology double major Alex Reed ’23 explored film and storytelling at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal Competition November 7, 2024 PLU
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Lindsey Clark ’24 came to PLU knowing it was where she wanted to be. But Clark—a double major in mathematics and gender, sexuality, and race studies (GSRS)—says PLU challenged and changed her and expanded her worldview in ways she never before considered on her way…
university, and that’s been really valuable.” Clark’s taken English and political science classes, and those have given her new perspectives. “The GSRS major really gets you in everywhere and gets you to do everything.” Clark is also Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship recipient. Known as the Culturally Sustaining STEM (CS-STEM) Teaching Program at PLU, the scholarship is awarded to students of different backgrounds in their senior and graduate years who want to teach STEM subjects. “There are six of us
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For Cece Chan ’24, what began as a love of student advocacy and social justice in high school, has blossomed into activism through art at Pacific Lutheran University. From serving as ASPLU president her junior year, to spending a semester in Trinidad and Tobago, to…
Market – and now I can help make that connection for other people.” Following the farmers’ daily lives meant Chan witnessed the grueling 16-hour days, the devastation of having to relocate due to unjust landlord practices, and the hardships refugee communities frequently face. Chan also witnessed the resilience, the joy, the solidarity and the beauty of these farms and of these families. And she’s made it her mission to encourage others to witness it, too. From Instagram reels to her capstone film
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For Cece Chan ’24, what began as a love of student advocacy and social justice in high school, has blossomed into activism through art at Pacific Lutheran University. From serving as ASPLU president her junior year, to spending a semester in Trinidad and Tobago, to…
Pike Place Market – and now I can help make that connection for other people.”Following the farmers’ daily lives meant Chan witnessed the grueling 16-hour days, the devastation of having to relocate due to unjust landlord practices, and the hardships refugee communities frequently face. Chan also witnessed the resilience, the joy, the solidarity and the beauty of these farms and of these families. And she’s made it her mission to encourage others to witness it, too. From Instagram reels to her
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