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teaching Caribbean literature and history. Altogether, we have 34 students, plus staff assistance from PLU Head Baker Erica Fickeisen for the first week; Dr. Miller’s Assistant, Julie Paulsen, for the second week; and PLU Director of Dining and Culinary Services Erin McGinnis for the third week. Most of our class time is spent in separate classrooms in the conference center of the ship, but we gather both classes the night before each new port of call for “Port Reports”: the literature students
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scholar Deborah Miranda to campus. “Scott was teaching a class in Native and Indigenous literature…I was teaching the Creative Nonfiction Capstone. We decided that it would be great to have someone come who was a contemporary Native writer.” She adds, “In addition to doing her public events, Miranda also talked to the Native and Indigenous literature class.” Call made it clear how inspirational it was for students to hear Miranda’s stories in her own voice, an experience that increased many of her
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environment of academic integrity and intellectual freedom. Wendy Call Wendy Call earned her Fulbright Core Scholar opportunity in Colombia, translating the poetry of indigenous women writers in order to share and preserve them. “What I’m most hoping to get out of it is really expanding my understanding of indigenous literature in Latin America and particularly indigenous poetry,” Call said. “Since I’ve for quite a number of years been translating Mexican poets who work in an indigenous language and then
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Biology. In addition to the research activities, students receive training and opportunities in: Literature: search, read, and interpret journal articles related to their project Research skills – experimental design, statistical analysis, and data interpretation Instrumentation: hands-on training in the fundamentals, usage, and data interpretation Professional development, communication skills, ethical considerations and research integrity Career planning Professional networking Diversity in science
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plasmid platform. The secondary project will focus on retrospectively collecting interpretation information for a future database project for copy number variants. Additional projects may be assigned as company needs dictate and personal interests of the intern. Read relevant literature, perform laboratory work, and present findings related to test development. The student will have the opportunity to learn about genetic testing including Sanger and NextGen sequencing and array CGH technologies. At
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New to the Library – Popular Fiction Collection Posted by: Julie Babka / May 19, 2022 May 19, 2022 The Mortvedt Library is proud to announce a new addition to our offerings; the Popular Fiction Collection. This collection hopes to encourage exploration through storytelling and contemporary literature, as well as motivate lifelong learning and curiosity. The idea for this collection came from a goal to showcase the library as not only a place for academic research, but also for play and personal
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plasmid platform. The secondary project will focus on retrospectively collecting interpretation information for a future database project for copy number variants. Additional projects may be assigned as company needs dictate and personal interests of the intern. Read relevant literature, perform laboratory work, and present findings related to test development. The student will have the opportunity to learn about genetic testing including Sanger and NextGen sequencing and array CGH technologies. At
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delicious! The students in the Trinidad program always read a novel by Earl Lovelace, one of Trinidad’s two most famous authors (the other is V.S. Naipaul). Lovelace wrote The Dragon Can’t Dance in 1979 which has remained one of the most loved and read novels in Trinidad’s history. It is an amazing read in part because Lovelace has a unique style and cadence (which earned him the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in the 1990s for another novel, Salt). Dr. Youtz said, “It has never been more important
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a first-time author writing for teens and celebrates impressive new voices in young adult literature.” Walton, who graduated from PLU in 2004 with a B.A. in Education, says the nomination means the world to her. “I think one of the things I’ve ever wanted in life was to publish a novel that has one of those delicious medallions on the cover,” she explains. “It’s the dream!” “Being nominated for the Morris Award is a bit like being nominated for an Oscar in our world—it’s absolutely huge!” says
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January 28, 2013 Grad lands dream job By Emilie Thoreson ’15 After travelling to Macedonia on a Fulbright Student Fellowship and working for the National Albanian American Council, Kelly Ryan ’10 has landed his dream job — working for the State Department. Ryan made the trip to Skopje, Macedonia shortly after graduation to carry out his Fulbright. There, he analyzed the dialogue process of the Nansen Dialogue Center and its efforts to promote linguistic and ethnic integration in schools. “Right
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