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record 975 artists applied for the awards. Both Senn, virtual reference services librarian, and Youtz, professor of music, received the maximum award of $1,500. A visual artist, Senn uses discarded library books to make sculptures and installations that explore the lifecycle of ideas. It’s an organic, non-linear process, she explains, where thoughts are born, disseminated, and then adopted or forgotten. She finds inspiration in the natural world, from the variety of books she finds and in her work as

community during the two-day Food Symposium presented by the Philosophy Department last week. The symposium began with a series of sessions for the symposium’s presenters on Feb. 20. They started the morning with a discussion on a variety of food topics, including organic agriculture and food system sustainability, supporting local farmers and achieving changes in the food system, and food costs. Among the presenters was an array of PLU students, staff, and professors, and community members, with a

enjoys. “That experience helped me grow as a person and in my chemistry career,” she said.   In the classroom, her aptitude was quickly noticed, leading to her becoming an organic lab teaching assistant in the fall of 2020 and 2021, and an invitation to be a student guest of the American Chemical Society at the Linus Pauling Award Symposium Banquet. “Yaquelin impresses you with her work ethic, diligence, and academic abilities,” Craig Fryhle, chemistry professor, said. “She is a very personable

analyzing samples with the NMR: Yakelis’s Organic Special Projects students and Waldow’s Instrumental Analysis students will be among the first students to use it. The machine works by an electronic arm plucking out a sample from a rotating tray and slowly lowering it into a tube, which then goes down on a column of air into the bowels of the machine and into a center of a powerful magnet that is 200,000 times as strong as the Earth’s magnetic field. As the machine analyzes the sample, information

events are introduced. Deane said she is very excited about the Left Foot Organics trip, which was added to the service category this year. “Left Foot Organics is a farm in Tenino that employs people with special needs to harvest organic food,” she said. “This year we have a group of students volunteering to help out and I am very excited to participate in this trip.” Deane said that it is trips like this one that embody the PLU mission, which helps introduce students to what the values are at PLU

PLU’s dedication. The Morken Center attained gold-level certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, and the bookstore incorporated similar green building practices. Across campus, the effort continues: residence halls are equipped with low-flow toilets; Dining Services is bringing more organic and locally-produced food to campus; and human resources offers a transit pass benefit to encourage commuting by mass transit, carpools or walking. Currently, the Sustainability Committee is looking at

wages paid. The entire process is transparent and verifiable, Giguere said. Not all items in the store are certified fair trade, yet many are still considered to be fair trade goods. Characterized by Valdez as a “homegrown, organic” process, it involves PLU students, faculty or staff visiting a site, seeing how items are made and disclosing the information. The store is currently working with the Wang Center for International Programs to create import avenues for PLU, Valdez said. Students studying

September 3, 2009 New Chemistry department instrument will help students and profs probe world of the atom It looks like a rather fat, squat water heater. But to the students and professors gathered around it – or, more accurately, the computer that transmits readouts from it, the machine is pure magic. It is called a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, or NMR. Today, the students from Professor Neal Yakelis’ organic chemistry lab are trying to figure out the structure of an unknown

. “That was done very deliberately when we were creating the menu,” McGinnis said. “We wanted to create amazing dishes using simple local ingredients.” Coffee and those morning pastries (thanks to the PLU bakery) are still on the menu and the coffee is provided by Valhalla in North Tacoma, with selections like Organic Viking and Valkyrie blends. It should fit nicely with the Scandinavian Shop in the Garfield Book Company. But 208 Garfield is so much more than a coffee shop. The name will become

Olympic Games in 16 years. “It’s exciting to teach PLU students the same skills and strategies,” Hacker said. “One of the great joys for me is being a PLU faculty member.” Read Previous PLU profs and pastry professionals pack a presentation profoundly full of pickles Read Next PLU prof tells why editing organic chemistry textbook is actually fun 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