Search

Summer Undergraduate Research at Caltech Caltech's WAVE Fellows program is a 10-week undergraduate research program that provides robust programming in the areas of academic and professional development. Posted by: alemanem / November 15, 2023 November 15, 2023 Caltech’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion is but one manifestation of our commitment to institutional excellence. Diversity is essential to achieving and maintaining scientific excellence. – excerpt from Caltech’s

APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women and Underrepresented Minorities Posted by: nicolacs / January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021 Looking for a paid summer internship to enhance your STEM education? Interested in working at a world-class research facility? APS and IBM co-sponsor two undergraduate research internship programs for women and underrepresented minorities. The goals of these programs are to encourage women and underrepresented minority undergraduate students to pursue

APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women and Underrepresented Minorities Posted by: nicolacs / January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021 Looking for a paid summer internship to enhance your STEM education? Interested in working at a world-class research facility? APS and IBM co-sponsor two undergraduate research internship programs for women and underrepresented minorities. The goals of these programs are to encourage women and underrepresented minority undergraduate students to pursue

November 1, 2010 From PLU, to Iraq, and Back By Nick Dawson When Barrett Bollen ’12 settled into the starting blocks for the 400-meter hurdles finals at the 2010 Northwest Conference Track and Field Championships in Spokane last April, 10 hurdles measuring 36 inches in height separated him from the finish line. Compared to the hurdles that Bollen crossed one year earlier as a member of the United States Marine Corps in Iraq, those 10 hurdles seemed like a walk in the park. Barett Bollen ’12

April 26, 2011 Getting down to business – and winning! By Chris Albert Over Spring Break, six PLU business students took a deep breath and kept charging as a computer breakdown cut their time to complete a competition in half. “Problems happen in the real word,” said Vitaliy Marchenko, shrugging off the setback. And in the end, the lost time didn’t matter. From left to right: Colin Zinnecker, Sanne Jacobsen, Tiffany Brown, Kasey Dorcas, Vitaliy Marchenko and Alisha Fisher took home two first

planning issues. Working alongside Pierce County Parks and Alta Planning & Design, Linde’s role with EnviroIssues is to support public outreach events and communications as the team develops a concept design for the trail. Here, she talks about the development of the project and how her time at PLU prepared her for the job. PLU: Please tell us more about your work with EnviroIssues and the Parkland Community Trail. What part of your work excites you the most? Linde: What drew me to EnviroIssues was the

OHSU Equity Research Program Posted by: nicolacs / December 7, 2023 December 7, 2023 The OHSU Equity Research Program offers an exciting opportunity for diverse undergraduate college students to spend eight weeks working on research projects alongside faculty, scientists and graduate students.  Examples of internship tracks include: Biomedical Studies Dental Health Systems & Policy – Center for Health Systems Effectiveness Medicine Nursing Public Health PA (Physician Assistant) What can Equity

opportunity to memorialize the people murdered because of transphobia, and to bring attention to the continued violence and prejudice endured by the transgender community. Transgender people cannot be visible only when they are being mourned.  As recent activism reminds us, their lives matter, not solely their deaths. Rita Hester—whose murder in Massachusetts on November 28, 1998 prompted her friend, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, to create the Transgender Day of Remembrance—was an African American trans woman. The

Summer research at the FDA for continuing and graduating students Posted by: yakelina / January 7, 2016 January 7, 2016 Graduating seniors are even eligible for some of these programs sponsored by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA).   This is one listed below is devoted to food/environmental toxicology at a lab in Arkansas.   There are also more divisions of the FDA that sponsor summer research internships.  Check them out at: http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA

Merry Christmas to All, and to Emma a Good Knightley Posted by: ramosam / December 24, 2020 December 24, 2020 By Abigail Kunkel In both Douglas McGrath’s and Autumn de Wilde’s adaptations of Jane Austen’s Emma (1815), Christmas dinner scenes intimate the intersection of the familial love and comfort associated with Emma and Mr. Knightley’s romance. At the same time, these scenes draw attention to Knightley’s often paternalistic love for Emma. Taken together, these scenes at once associate