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  • means of collaboratively close reading a novel. Google Maps Assignment ExampleJodi Wyett (English, Xavier University) has created this assignment template which can be easily adapted to any course and which provides a useful guide for how to use Google Maps. This assignment can be easily adapted for Google Earth. Below two screenshots from a Google Map assignment created at PLU show what a simple map might look like and highlight two interrelated functions of Google Maps: Layers and Glosses. Layers

  • microorganisms, minuscule life forms, wield a vital influence over our planet’s climate. They manage crucial components like carbon and oxygen within the vast oceans and the atmosphere. Over the summer, Professor Angie Boysen and her dedicated team, Lydia Flaspohler ’25, a biology major, and Ryan Fisher ’24, a biology major and environmental studies minor, embarked on a mission to unravel the secrets of these microorganisms. Professor Boysen, Flaspohler and Fisher aimed to understand the compounds these

  • up-close look at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel—closer than you could get in person! Flip through first-editions of Galileo, Copernicus, and Shakespeare at the digital Rare Book Room. Experience 6,000 years of history at The Virtual Museum of Iraq.   PLU Resources For help creating a Google Maps or Google Earth tour, set up an Instructional Technology consultation with Jenna Stoeber at itech@plu.edu Read Previous Tips for Streamlining Assignment Workflows Read Next Fraudulent Email and

  • Earth Science Capstones 2024 Thursday, May 9th All presentations will take place in the Rieke science Center, room 109. 3:45-4pm, “New Detrital Zircon Age Constraints for the Darrington Phyllite East of the Straight Creek-Fraser River Fault” Iris Hernandez The Northern Cascades Strait Creek fault system creates a divide between the Coast Plutonic Complex and western North Cascade units with a 90km offset from the west side. Small amounts of the Easton suite can also be found on the east side of

  • Earth Science Capstones 2023 Thursday, May 11th 1:45-2:00pm, Grayson Nottage Texas Water Mitigation 2:00-2:15pm, Caelan Colescott Examining the Impact of Gentrification on Urbanization and Ecological Indicators in Watersheds 2:15-2:30pm, Juj Navidi Assessing and Mapping Secondary Lahar Risk on Mt. Rainier 2:30-2:45pm, Francois Lalague Comparing Metamorphic Facies Across the Straight Creek Fault 2:45-3:00pm, Autumn Johansen Comparison of Phytholith and Carbonate (δ13C) data used as a proxies for

  • Calling All Lutes to Protect the EarthThursday, April 4, 2019 + 12:00 Noon to 4:15 PM + Xavier 201Despite current federal rollbacks of protection for land, water, and air, we are witnessing remarkable efforts by students, public servants, and activists to diminish human-produced climate change. School Strike for Climate, the New Green Deal, and the Sustainable Tacoma Commission are local, national, and international efforts to protect and conserve the earth, our beautiful and suffering home

  • “I work with talented, brilliant, and compassionate colleagues, and the women who fight this disease are truly inspirational.” MORE >> Dr. Greg Aune ’97 Pediatric Oncologist, University of Texas at San Antonio “All the professors had this open door policy. I realized later how rare that was.” MORE >> Read Previous Caring at the Core: Dr. Jennifer Specht Read Next Skokomish Nation tribal member brings emotion to Earth Day COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for

  • my privilege to frame our hopes for the year ahead, to encourage your full engagement in the learning process, and also to challenge your imagination as you begin to envision,  and then to build a foundation for your future,” Anderson told the crowd who packed into Olson Auditorium. Only one percent of the world’s population receives a college degree,” Anderson noted, adding that the new Lutes gathered in Olson have the rare privilege to study and then go out into the four corners of the globe to

  • ScienceChemical Comparison of Igneous Rocks in the northern Tusas Mountains Faculty Mentors: Alex Lechler & Peter Davis, Earth Science This project uses geochemical data collected from ICP-Mass Spectrometry to analyze the oxides and rare earth elements present in different igneous rocks from the same area, in order to determine if there is any relationship between them. This will help better understand the geologic history of the southwestern U.S. Iris HernandezEarth ScienceNew Detrital Zircon Age Constraints

  • The Reboot of Outdoor Rec The Reboot of Outdoor Rec https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2019/01/outdoor-rec-banner-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Thomas Kyle-Milward Thomas Kyle-Milward https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2019/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2019/02/thomas-kyle-milward.jpg January 8, 2019 February 21, 2019 LUTHERAN HIGHER EDUCATIONFor the Earth For today’s PLU students, the university’s Outdoor Recreation program is a reliable portal to the Pacific