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Dr. Bryn NelsonBryn Nelson, PhD, is an award-winning science and medical writer, the author of Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure (Grand Central Publishing), and a former microbiologist trained in bacterial biochemistry at the University of Washington. As a science writer at Newsday from 2000 to 2007, Nelson wrote frequently about the Human Genome Project, gene therapy, stem cell research, conservation, global warming, ecology, and the West Nile virus. Among his awards, he

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The School of Nursing faculty may enact a Performance Progression Alert (PPA) for students who are not meeting the Essential Qualifications or not performing to academic, clinical, lab, or professional standards at any point in the academic term and program of study. The PPA will specify the nature of the performance concern, criteria for satisfactory performance, the timeline for achieving expected improvements, and consequences for failure to improve. The notice will be signed by the issuing

How to Be SuccessfulStudy skills for online learningOnline learning requires students to become masters of time management. Students complete online lessons and activities independently according to deadlines established by the instructor. During a compressed term schedule, it is easy to fall behind. Many online students find it helpful to review all of the work due each week and then create a plan for when they will complete each task on their list. Successful online students also remember

Bonnie Nelson '08(served in Mongolia from 2011-2013) Bonnie was a psychology major at PLU and also served as the Psi Chi and Psychology Club officer. While on campus she conducted student-faculty research (funded by the Forest Foundation Fellowship). She also was the recipient of the Western Association Student Scholarship Award and the Psychology Student Research Award. She joined the Peace Crops because she wanted to learn more about education in an international context and to have more

, 2016)- Joshua Cushman ’08 stood in front of a crowd at the Wang Center Symposium last month and recalled his childhood in which nobody asked him about his future. The Tacoma native was the product of a broken home, plagued by poverty, violence and abuse. Cushman was one of several speakers who discussed resilience, in the seventh biennial event at Pacific Lutheran University that aimed to stimulate serious thinking on the global challenge. Cushman told attendees that his negative experiences as a