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  • “Capturing astronomy images is rewarding but can be challenging,” said professor of physics Katrina Hay. “It requires long exposures or stacked images, focusing in cold dark conditions, climbing a ladder to access the telescope, tracking objects as they move across the sky, and merging several…

    to capture the best images for use in their investigations- observing dynamics, temperatures, and luminosity of celestial objects,” Hay concluded. Seeing Stars:Dr. O'Neill is assembling the 3D-printed Bahtinov Mask, unique for PLU's telescope. The mask makes focusing the telescope on a star easier before image capture.Mentorship:O'Neill looks on while interns discuss celestial image processing. Kop is making light curves, showing how the brightness of several variable stars changes over time

  • By Damian Alessandro ’19 It’s awards season! Not the Academy Awards –although we do host awards parties at Pacific Lutheran University. I’m writing about the annual awards for innovation that have everyone whispering excitedly in the discipline of Innovation Studies. That’s right–its the Edison Awards…

    review many of the innovations and inventors that are transforming our world. As a student of Innovation Studies here at PLU, I find it intriguing to review these diverse innovations each year and consider how they came to be. As we include different artistic, historical, ethical, and business perspectives in our coursework, it is fascinating to see how these dynamics have worked together in industry and shaped society. Many of the social innovations have made a lasting, positive impact in the world

  • The 2016 Jazz Under the Stars series will begin on Thursday, July 7 in the outdoor amphitheater of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center on the PLU campus. This annual summer concert series is FREE to the public, PLU’s gift to our community. The series…

    harmonic color of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Artie Shaw; we like the fun of Fats Waller and the theatricality of Cab Calloway; and we like being a team, playing together as one with dynamics and esprit d’ corps. We are delighted to return this season and bring the rhythm of hot dance bands and the romance of music ‘under the stars’.Learn MoreJULY 14: Keith Henson OctetThe Keith Henson Octet is an eight piece, five horn band featuring arrangements of jazz and popular danceable and

  • Michael Halvorson ’85 was a technologist before he was a historian. His PLU undergraduate degree is in computer science and he worked at Microsoft for the first 10 years of his career. He spent the next 15 years writing books about software and emerging technology.…

    those things have been over time,” he explains. “An analysis of innovation should look at human communities, economic issues, art & design, ethics, technology, and more. If you examine these elements in an interdisciplinary way, you can really assess the dynamics of change in society.” Halvorson teaches business and economic history courses in the history department, as well as classes on innovation and the history of technology. He has also continued publishing books, including the lively new

  • Amanda Dodson, Senior Capstone Seminar About 37% of U.S. adults are diagnosed with Metabolic Syndrome (MetS), which is the combination of metabolic risk factors including insulin resistance,

    disease modeling, cardiovascular disease modeling requires the specific emulation of cardiac tissue microenvironments to account for the spatial and geometric assemblies found in human tissues. Microfluidic cardiovascular models were successfully generated to emulate the extracellular matrix – a microenvironment found in cardiac arterial tissues. This extracellular matrix was not accounted for in two dimensional modeling. Utilizing this microfluidic model, a disease model for thrombus formation and

  • How did studying at PLU help prepare you to be an effective teacher? The Education professors at PLU hold you to a very high standard.

    world.School of Nursing Henry Tieu, Class of 2014 Hometown: Soc Trang, Vietnam Degree: B.S. Nursing These days: Tieu works as a registered nurse in the St. Joseph’s Hospital Cardiac ICU unit in Tacoma. Learn more // Go Back How did studying Nursing at PLU help prepare you to work in an ICU just a few years after graduation? PLU School of Nursing has taught me many great things about being a competent nurse. However, if I have to pick one, I would have to say “self­reflection.” I still remember that after

  • The Master of Science in Kinesology program is on hiatus for the 2023-24 academic year. Admission to the MS in Kinesiology is based on several criteria including academic preparation, work

    opportunities for leadership development and professional development appropriate to the student's interests and abilities. This is a Pass/Fail class only. A general outline of the student's final project is also expected to be developed as a function of the mentoring process. Can be repeated once for credit up to four semester hours. (2) KINS 515 : Applied Sport Psychology I Examination and analysis of theory and research relating to social psychological factors and group dynamics affecting sport and

  • Hughes encourages classmates to be global citizens President Anderson, Faculty and Staff, Representative from the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs, Family and Friends, invited guests, and fellow graduates, Good Afternoon. It gives me great pleasure to stand before you today as a…

    growth and development. One way growth is promoted at PLU is via study abroad. This semester I also added to the statistics as I journeyed off to explore Botswana, Africa. Yes Mom, Africa. I have seen the face of poverty and heard the cries of AIDS. I have looked into hungry eyes and better understand the dynamics of food distribution. I have been enlightened about a different way of life and an interestingly new diet. I have learned the click language of the San people and moved to the steps of the

  • Perspective: Rethinking the global citizen The field of Subaltern Studies came into existence to address a perceived problem with the way that existing scholarly paradigms in anthropology, Latin American studies, and many other fields, had understood the “objects” of study: people in cultures other than…

    – at least in any direct way. For we could not change the dynamics of global trade which have caused a kind of forced migration of men from these communities. Nor could we take any action against the violence that these communities have suffered at the hands of Mexican national traditions and political structures. Instead, the most productive role we could play was to bear witness to the stories we heard. That is, our responsibility lay in the United States, not in Mexico. For the problems

  • Shawn Brookins, Senior Capstone Seminar Alzheimer’s Disease, the most common form of progressive dementia, has transitioned among the forefront of healthcare research, lending to novel

    withdrawing groups are investigated for retro Diels-Alder. The adducts formed are analyzed via FT-IR, NMR, and melting points. Temperature variation becoming a trigger in retro Diels-Alder mechanism while adduct isomer ratio are measured quantitively in 4:1 ratio via 1H NMR spectra.   2:20 pm - NMR Resolved Dynamics of Polymer Electrolytes with Lithium Salt Jacob McKenzie, Capstone Senior Seminar The local segmental dynamics of a N=2 ethylene oxide functionalized oxanorbornene dicarboximide homopolymer is