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and Princeton, and will study women’s health at Vanderbilt, Kelsey will study social work at Smith. Anna is off to seek a Ph.D. in neuroscience at UC-Davis, Ashley in nanoscience at Colorado, and Joe in plasma physics at Wisconsin. Angela is headed to the New School for Drama in New York, while Jordan will join a theatre company in Washington DC, and Abagail in Philadelphia. The “I’ve got a new job stories” are also exciting. Shannon and Annie will be working at Bank of New York Mellon as
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categorization, taking my inspiration from some of the division’s leaders in their own introductions over the last 35 years.Intersecting Visions of Humanities In the very first issue of Prism, Dean Janet Rasmussen explained the publication’s title this way: The role of the humanities is, in some measure, to present and polish the prism, so that our vision may be both clear and wondrous. To study the humanities is to confront the very nature of being human as we explore expressions of the heart, mind and soul
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relationship — spent nearly $3.6 billion on experiences. Image Credit: Bing 11. If you’re in the hospitality industry, schedule hotel and lodging ads on weekdays. The study reveals that Tuesdays and Wednesdays are the peak days when people go searching for accommodations. People who travel on Valentine’s Day are far more likely (40 percent) to book a room at a hotel or resort, rather than a bed and breakfast or vacation rental (sorry Airbnb!). 12. Whether someone is going on a date or out with friends, 34
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in Eatonville, Wash., to Poland for a year to study orchestration, twentieth-century techniques and counterpoint with Penderecki. “The experience was life changing in a myriad of positive ways and set me well on my path toward a career in music. Were it not for PLU’s excellent music department, this important opportunity would never have presented itself,” she explains. After her year in Poland, McTee graduated with a BA from PLU and received her Masters in Music from Yale School of Music and a
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in St. Louis, Mo., sends Laurie-Berry's BIOL 358 Plant Physiology class millet seeds with random mutations. Student teams study plants in PLU’s warm, sunny greenhouse, watching for genetic traits that help millet grow taller or produce more seeds.“The Danforth Center is crowdsourcing genetic research,” Laurie-Berry says. “We’re helping Danforth go through thousands of seeds, identifying which are worth studying. No one knows how each one will behave.” PLU students are joining high school and
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. Aidan Donnelly ’25 | Chemistry major with minors in biology and Hispanic studies The importance of collaboration “A memorable task that stood out during summer research was working with our collaborators. It was an incredible experience to meet and work with other professors and students in different fields of study and connect their research to ours as well as the overarching project.” Read Previous Margaret Murdoch ’24: Contributing to a cure at Fred Hutch Cancer Center Read Next PLU alumna Shelby
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with the hardships and the sleepless nights that come with creating a Web startup, the process has been exactly what he hoped it would be: Awesome. Read Previous Recognized for top study away programs Read Next Polar adventure COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than
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captured his imagination and took him to a land, far, far away. “I was always drawing stop-motion movies and little drawings and cartoons in the sides of my textbooks and stuff like that,” he said. “And I was always borrowing my Dad’s video camera.” In high school, Perry took every art class he could find. And when he ran out of art classes, he started crafting coursework through independent study. He did the same thing at Pierce College, and then transferred to PLU. It was here his future career got
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paperwork associated with their newly registered classes. They also left with the novel “Into the Beautiful North,” by Luis Alberto Urrea, and a series of study questions associated with the book. Homework already?!! Not really. But every incoming student is being asked to read the novel as part of an innovative new program at PLU. In the eyes of Starre Helm ’12, an English major who helped select the book, the arrival of this novel is an easy, and interesting, way for students to become acclimated to
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Virgin Islands and spent a portion of his youth living in a boat, sailing around the Caribbean with his parents. In graduate school, he decided to study British Caribbean literature after learning about the gaps in the field. He went on to create the first early Caribbean literary anthology chair in the English department at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, complete a Fulbright in Jamaica, and form the Early Caribbean Society with friends at a cocktail party in 2002. “I can tell he has a
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