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research meeting time,” said Ward, program director and associate professor of marriage and family therapy at Pacific Lutheran University. He worked with Grahe, professor of psychology, on an interdisciplinary research project validating Ward’s previous research on a relationally focused measurement of hope. The findings were recently accepted for publication in The American Journal of Family Therapy. Throughout the collaborative process of gathering data — with the help of two former PLU students who

include uranium mines, musical education and the history of alcohol. Read MoreStudents conduct ‘gut biology’ research in Namibia. Wang Center Executive Director Tamara Williams says the grant application process is competitive and scrupulous. It begins with a review process by the faculty-led Global Education Committee and ends with approval from the provost. Investing in global education: 0 Research Grants 0 Global Scholar Awards The Wang Center awards an average of $40,000 in research grants

experiments on Jewish victims would occur. Beth Kraig, professor of history, mentored Mahr through the emotionally taxing process of tackling this appalling reality. Kraig said Mahr’s work challenges society to put more pressure on institutional systems to implement checks and balances. It also challenges people to face the possibility that they could become complicit in harmful behavior. “She’s wanting people to take this on board as something they are prone to do themselves,” she said. In all the case

encouraged him to join her in setting a personal goal to accomplish within a year, while Ciscell was in graduate school at Colorado State University. Within that year, after what Ciscell calls a “very scientific” data-collection process of playing his game about 100 times with friends-turned-critics, “Atlantis Rising” was finished. Ciscell used his contacts from gaming conventions and sold the game to the first company he pitched it to, New York-based Z-Man Games. The company hired a designer from the

people,” he said. “In the process, they become better basketball players.” Dickerson hopes that message — one he’s worked to build for 14 years at PLU — continues after he’s gone. He started as an assistant, coaching alongside his former college roommate. He came to PLU after retiring from public-school coaching in Ohio — a run that included facing a young LeBron James, before the NBA megastar was drafted. “I wanted to keep my toe in coaching,” he said. Dickerson took over the top job at PLU three

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