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  • Our Low-Residency ModelThe low-residency MFA in Creative Writing offered by The Rainier Writing Workshop is a three-year program in the study of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Each new cohort starts the program on June 1st, the beginning of the summer term. The summer term culminates in the 10-day residency on the PLU campus in early August. The degree is awarded after completion of the following: four residencies, three years of mentorships, a successful “Outside Experience,” a Critical

  • ($18,000-$33,000). We strongly urge you to consider seeking funding from outside agencies e.g. National Science Foundation or other federal agencies. A listing of funding opportunities can be found here. You will be welcome at any laboratory if you bring your own funding! The Application Process Start your research into research schools/programs early. Talk to your PLU advisor(s) during your junior year. Take the GRE (general and/or subject test) early in your senior year. Prepare your resume

  • May 10, 2010 www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ANB9w73E4 The Dead Gentlemen return to PLU – Ben Dobyns ’01, Don Early ’00, Matt Vancil ’01 and Steve Wolbrecht ’99. The Dead Gentlemen filmmakers return to PLU By Barbara Clements Once upon a time, there were five Lutes, who had a passion for gaming, and making up silly stories and movies when they should have been studying for finals in 1999. While looking for another excuse to not study Matt Vancil, Ben Dobyns, Don Early and Steve Wolbrecht, created a

  • . They also consider how human communities have shaped and been shaped by their environment and how these relationships have changed over time. Students select two courses (from two different departments) from the following: ANTH 368: Edible Landscapes, The Foraging Spectrum (4) ECON 215: Investigating Environmental & Economic Change in Europe, Pre-req: ECON 101 or 111 (4) ECON 313: Environmental Economics, Pre-requisite: ECON 101 or 111 (4) HIST 370: Environmental History of the US, Pre-req

  • , Ph.D. Andrea Munro, Ph.D. Inorganic Chemistry Justin Lytle, Ph.D. Andrea Munro, Ph.D. Materials & Polymer Chemistry Justin Lytle, Ph.D. Andrea Munro, Ph.D. Dean Waldow, Ph.D. Organic Synthesis Dean Waldow, Ph.D. Neal Yakelis, Ph.D. Chemistry students at PLU get hands-on experience using our suite of modern research-grade instruments, including: 500 MHz Fourier-transform nuclear magnetic resonance (FT NMR) spectrometer atomic force microscope (AFM) gas chromatography / mass spectroscometer (GC/MS

  • Association for Higher Education, 1996. Rothblatt, Sheldon. The Modern University and its Discontents: The Fate of Newman’s Legacies in Britain and America. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Rudolph, Frederick. Curriculum: A History of the American Course of Study since 1636. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1977. Tagg, John. Learning Paradigm College. Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing, 2003. A Useful Definition of General Education In the AAC booklet, A New Vitality in General Education, the

  • have the PLU Trumpet Ensemble perform because I have been looking for ways to show this great group off the wider community. This is the perfect venue.” “Also, as a trumpet player I have performed on this same radio show twice myself, once with the Mosaic Brass Quintet, and once with the Lyric Brass Quintet,” Zachary Lyman, Associate Professor of Music – Trumpet; Chair of Winds and Brass at PLU. Pieces that will be performed include an eclectic mix of modern work written for large trumpet ensemble

  • citizens and advocates for peace. The first Wang Center International Symposium was held in April 2003, “China: Bridges for a New Century.” Since then the symposiums have become a modern tradition designed to stimulate serious thinking about current issues, and to provide a forum in which the Greater Puget Sound community, and PLU community of students, faculty, administrator and staff can be stimulated to engage international, national and local stature – from scholars and authors to business people

  • Nansen The experimental re-enactments of Thor Heyerdahl Modern day extreme Nordic explorers The popular legacy of these “useless” forays into the edge of human endurance

  • newer research methodologies, such as data analytics, the annual global turnover for research in 2016 was $71.5bn. The US remains the largest market ( 44%) with $19.5bn turnover, followed by the UK ( 15%) on $6.6bn and Germany ( 6%) on $2.8bn. Africa was the world’s fastest growing region, with a net growth rate of 22.7% compared with the previous year. Asia Pacific saw a net growth of 7.8% after inflation. While China has previously been behind much of the region’s growth, Japan has bounced back