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September 1, 2008 Mental skills coach remembers Olympics For the last month, PLU Professor of Movement Studies and Wellness Education Colleen Hacker has worked as the mental skills coach for the U.S. women’s field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, as well as working with individual players on the now-gold medal winning U.S. women’s soccer team. The event has been beyond description, Hacker said in an e-mail interview from Beijing this week. But she gave a go at it anyway, in an
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March 29, 2010 Alternative Spring Break takes group back to Guatemala By Loren Liden ’11 This year, ten PLU students and five PLU staff will return to Antigua, Guatemala for the first time in five years on an Alternative Spring Break trip. In fact, Antigua is where PLU first traveled for Alternative Spring Break, led by three of the leaders for this year’s trip. This year’s alternate spring break will take 10 students and four faculty to Guatemala. There, the group will see famous carpets
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March 19, 2014 MSF Team’s Stock Rises at Major Financial Competitions PLU’s CFA Challenge team at the local competition in Seattle (which it won!). From left: Kirk Swanson, Tobias Kornberg, Raji Kaur, Kristoffer Dahle, Evan Turner. (Photo: CFA Seattle.) By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications PLU Master of Science in Finance students have won the local 2014 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute Research Challenge and competed in its prestigious Americas Regional Finals. And
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Growing into her own: Sarah Davis ’23 discovers her passion for plant biology at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / April 26, 2023 Image: Sarah Davis ’23, a biology major and Hispanic studies minor, was drawn to PLU for several reasons — both her parents are alumni, the study-away opportunities were exciting and the community was welcoming. (Photo by Sy Bean/PLU) April 26, 2023 By Lisa PattersonPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterSarah Davis began her PLU journey with the idea that medicine
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History Article Prize ‹ Resolute Online: Spring 2015 Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On Campus Discovery Research Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Profiles Homecoming 2015 Twin Cities ‘Waste Not’ Seattle Connections Easter Egg Hunt Night at the Rainiers Alumni Events Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Home Features Germany J-Term Women’s Center at 25 Jehane Noujaim It’s On Us Attaway
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SCC Artifact CollectionsThe Scandinavian Cultural Center Collections holds over three thousand cultural artifacts and art works related to Nordic lands and people, Nordic-Americans, and PLU’s Nordic heritage. The Center’s collection represent artifacts dating from the 17th century up to the present and is especially rich in textile works, woodworking objects and ceramic plates. To the left you will find a link to the Scandinavian Cultural Center’s Artifact Collection Online. The Collection
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Learn More: Likomba Mask 1Made of a soft and lightweight wood (ntene from the tree ricinodendron rautanenii) and decorated with pigment, this makonma face mask (also called lipiko) is given a more authentic look by the addition of human hair in the scalp area; it’s held in place with beeswax. Holes in the ear lobes indicate ear piercings; a long and flat nose and a yellowish red pigment to represent the people who wear the masks. A mouth opening and distinct recessing in the eye areas as well
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2024 Mathematics Capstone SymposiumFriday, May 3rd Join the Mathematics Department in Morken 214 and Morken 216 to hear the senior capstone presentations. If you’re unable to join us in-person, we welcome you to attend via Zoom. You can join the Morken 214 capstone session here. You can join the Morken 216 capstone session here. Morken 2161:00pm – The Dynamic Trio Kirill Perfiliev In the event of a catastrophe, where help can only be delivered using a helicopter, it is essential to have a
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2024 Mathematics Capstone SymposiumFriday, May 3rd Join the Mathematics Department in Morken 214 and Morken 216 to hear the senior capstone presentations. If you’re unable to join us in-person, we welcome you to attend via Zoom. You can join the Morken 214 capstone session here. You can join the Morken 216 capstone session here. Morken 2161:00pm – The Dynamic Trio Kirill Perfiliev In the event of a catastrophe, where help can only be delivered using a helicopter, it is essential to have a
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on Dr. William Foege ’57. (Photo from C-SPAN) “driven a decades of progress in medicine,” leading the effort to wipe out smallpox and save millions of lives. “In the 1960s,” noted Obama, ” 2 million died each year of smallpox; a decade later, that number had dropped to zero…we all owe Dr. Foege a debt of gratitude.” Foege received the award along with such notables as singer Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and another Washington state resident
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