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residents are involved in our LCs, which gives them the benefits of a traditional on campus experience with the added value of developing relationships with faculty and sharing a similar community focus. You can learn more about our various LCs by going to our First Year Communities page. Residents will indicate their LC preferences when completing their housing application. Are you a commuting student? LCs are open to commuting students as well! Commuters can indicate their LC preferences when
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organization (cell, organism, population)—in sequence of scale from small to large. Important questions in biology span the range of these levels of organization. Emphasis is on understanding biological relationships within and between plants and animals. The major requirements also stress the balance of importance of both plant and animal life, including use of selected plants and animals as model organisms. The curriculum offers opportunity for students to discover similarities and differences of
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allows faculty to create a convenient, flexible, and public space where their students can engage with course material outside of class. I’ve done this a couple different ways. One is a course blog that students use to respond to assigned reading and/or to peer comments (prior to attending class). Effectively, this gives us an opportunity to start our conversation before we’ve stepped foot in the classroom. Depending on what the discussion is meant to accomplish, the WordPress course blog can be a
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the option of personalizing your search results. When using this option, you are able to select up to five disciplines/subdisciplines to use as the basis for your research. When this feature is enabled, only results that belong to your selected disciplines will be displayed. Note that if you sign in, your personalized settings are saved for the next time you are doing research.Searching Within a JournalWhen you locate a journal in PRIMO, you are able to access and browse it in a couple different
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and Experience program. I conducted research and analysis to answer questions such as: “What brings customers to T-Mobile?” “What are their needs?” “What are the drivers of customer satisfaction and loyalty?” After a couple of years at T-Mobile, I now [work as a Quantitative Researcher at Facebook and] lead two international tracking studies across consumer-to-consumer purchasing and eCommerce with the goal to understand the needs of Facebook Marketplace users and prospects and the ecosystem in
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to reach consensus on those things. When I came into office, I had a couple of priorities for policy issues. One was to make some very detailed statement on academic freedom in the classroom. I felt that if you look back over AAUP policies . . . the detail about what academic freedom means in the classroom is really not there. As freedom in the classroom has come under pressure over the past decade, I felt the organization needed a much more substantive, persuasive, detailed statement on that
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math students at nearly every level. Miller, who maintains a 3.91 grade point average, can be found in the math lab four nights per week for a couple of hours each night. The lanky Miller pursues running the same way she does mathematics, with equal measure purpose and success. Throughout her cross-country career she has been among PLU’s top runners, and last spring during the track and field season she shattered by nearly 18 seconds the school record in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase
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last part of A Generation Removed, I ponder why Australia and Canada have had searching national debates about the forced removal of Indigenous children but the United States has not.” Jacobs specifically cites the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby Veronica’s biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished her for adoption to
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folks to vote. It was awesome. From there, I spent a year in AmeriCorps through a Tacoma-based program called Urban Leaders in Training. I also worked with Graduate Tacoma on a lot of cool projects, including translating a lot of their materials into Spanish. Then, after a couple of years in Oakland, California working in environmental organizing with Clean Water Action, I came home to Tacoma and got connected with Lutheran Community Services. It’s been a lot of learning and hopping around, but in
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they feel healthy because it’s this constant state of unknown. It could be just cracking a couple of jokes (that) can honestly brighten people’s moods and it makes them feel more comfortable with you.” The opportunity to take part in a historic moment by administering life-changing vaccinations has certainly left an impact on the PLU community and students, like Hobbs, who are looking to pay it forward. “You can tell when people come through that they’re nervous, they’re scared,” said Hobbs
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