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. Award winners share proven strategies and inspire new ideas in the integration of technology with teaching and learning. This year Jenna Stoeber (Instructional Technology Team Manager) applied for the award on behalf of PLU’s Dr. Katrina Hay (Associate Professor of Physics) for her creation and use of a lightboard in a flipped classroom setting. Recently they were notified that they have won the 2016 award, recognizing Katrina’s work in using a lightboard to make engaging videos for students to
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core in K-12 health and physical education using technology, Spokane, WA (2015) SHAPE America National Convention. McConnell, K.E. & Farrar, T.D., Reinforcing the common core through health and fitness, Seattle, WA (2015) Professional Memberships/Organizations SHAPE America - Society of Health and Physical Educators Washington chapter of SHAPE America American Association for Health Education Association of Applied Sport Psychology
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. Causeway students also participate in a study evaluating the program’s effectiveness. Causeway is a 12-month program. The program begins in July and ends the following June. We anticipate that each cohort will consist of between seven and nine students. Participants receive free tuition and a living stipend of approximately $34,000. Each participant selects a track: pure mathematics, applied mathematics, or statistics. During the summer, students take a course in the foundations of higher mathematics
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core in K-12 health and physical education using technology, Spokane, WA (2015) SHAPE America National Convention. McConnell, K.E. & Farrar, T.D., Reinforcing the common core through health and fitness, Seattle, WA (2015) Professional Memberships/Organizations SHAPE America - Society of Health and Physical Educators Washington chapter of SHAPE America American Association for Health Education Association of Applied Sport Psychology
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program. RESEARCH AREAS Photons in Applied Materials Wavefunctions in Quantum Materials Phonons and Shockwaves Waves Revealing the Cosmos The 10-week program runs in conjunction with other programs on campus (~80 other STEM REU students) and includes professional development seminars, career oriented trips (e.g. LIGO Hanford – gravity wave observatory), social activities, and networking, including presenting at the WSU Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium. On-Campus Housing Food Budget Travel
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health, and sometimes physical health, but when there’s such limited access because of hardships, it’s hard for the kids to connect to it.” Many of the campers represent Parkland’s Franklin-Pierce School District, where students typically receive about 45 minutes of music class per week. The PLU students saw the need to help fill that gap, and armed with their own experiences of taking music lessons, they devised a plan to bring the camp back to life. “While growing up, my sister and I went to a lot
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,” Brown said. “They are now going to walk out of PLU not only with their degree, but an understanding of all dimensions, not just the one they’re trained in.” Iren Atemad, one of this year’s participants, agrees. “One of the lessons learned in these early stages of the competition is that everything depends on everything else,” she said. “This has made me understand the complexity of the business environment and how a team of executives truly manages a business.” Finance faculty member Kevin Boeh led
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. She’s learned to record Zoom lessons, sharpened her Google Docs skills, and misses the real-life campus interactions. She’s also had to pass on accepting the prestigious Fulbright scholarship she was offered because coronavirus-related travel restrictions would delay her service as an English as a Second Language Assistant in Mexico, where she also planned a secondary study of the water quality. But Cheney-Irgens, who was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and chose PLU for its beauty and
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seem like the point of happily ever after, but Reed struggled after graduation. She knew she wanted to do photography, but needed a place to start. “I applied to every studio in the area, everything I possibly could. I even applied to the photo studio at Walmart. And I didn’t hear back from anybody, not even an interview,” Reed said, laughing. “There was a lot of Top Ramen that year.” After Reed got an an interview with Walmart but no job offer, she decided to go rogue. “I got online the day I
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. I love the language, the sound, the power embedded in his works. What are you going to miss while you’re away? I’m sure two months into my sabbatical, I’m going to be really wishing I was back teaching! My students are amazing individuals. They are really the reason why this job is so fulfilling and exciting for me. It’s that human element as well — not just the lessons, but the kind of relationship you create with a person you are working with on a common project. Professor Spencer Ebbinga
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