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true embodiment of this idea.  At PLU, Xi Zhu is a teacher, with valuable knowledge and deep interest in Chinese pre-modern literature. But every day this past fall, after teaching his course at PLU, Zhu commuted north to the University of Washington to take a class for his PhD. While both teaching a class and taking a class, Zhu was also working on his dissertation.  As a doctoral student, Zhu is studying a manuscript version of a pre-300 B.C.E. Chinese text known in English as the Classic of Odes

March 2, 2009 Illegal animal trade Charles Bergman approached a man known to provide parrots on demand in the Texas border town of Brownsville. He asked if the man knew where he could get 25 of the colorful, highly intelligent birds. At first the man didn’t buy the story that Bergman, actually a PLU English professor, was a U.S. pet store owner looking for cheap parrots.“Federali?” he shot back. Bergman said no. Then pulled a fist-sized wad of cash out of pocket. The man needed no further

March 19, 2009 Lute Roots Run Deep By Barbara Clements Whenever admissions counselors were preparing to visit Brett Monson while he was in high school, they’d look at his application and then, inevitably, do a double take. Lute roots run deep for the Olsen clan. The five lines under “Who else do you know at PLU” were filled with his parents, his aunts, his uncles and his grandparents. He’d finally start scribbling on the back. “Yeah, I have pretty broad roots at PLU,” junior Brett said while

May 11, 2009 What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones, which once belonged to a juvenile eschrichtius robustus which washed up dead on an Olympia beach three years ago, Behrens noted that there should only be two. “I think we have a second whale here,” he laughed, as his two assistants

, who was the first in his family to attend college as well. He will speak at PLU’s Veterans Day Celebration on Friday. Farnum spent just over 22 years in the military before retiring in 2007, where he then attended Green River Community College before transferring to PLU in 2009. “PLU has a well-rounded program, and the Yellow Ribbon Program was just remarkable,” he said. Like Farnum, Duong Huynh, 28, went into the Army right out of high school. When he graduates with a degree in English, he plans

Nobel”). In 2009, she served as senior advisor on water to the president of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right. She is currently working on her next book in the series “Blue Futures” which will review solutions to the growing water crisis. As for those who ask “what water crisis?” Barlow has only to point to the fact that the world is simply running out of fresh water. According to her book, Blue Covenant, 2 billion people

60 years, until in 2009, he watched a documentary about a group of Kentucky middle schoolers who began studying the Holocaust by collecting paperclips to represent the 6 million Jews who perished in concentration camps during WWII.  Elbaum admitted that he simply couldn’t face the pain of what he’d experienced, and didn’t think he’d have much impact anyway. “But when I saw the school children crying in the film, after listening to a survivor, I realized that my story still has the power to

his family and friends."- Pierce County Sheriff Paul Pastor PLU previously hosted similar events, which drew several hundred attendees, for other members of the community killed in action. In 2012, the university opened its doors to honor the life of Margaret Anderson, a park ranger fatally shot at a checkpoint at Mount Rainier National Park. And in 2009, the university invited people to campus following the tragic, nearby shooting of four Lakewood police officers: Sgt. Mark Renninger, Officer

Two Lutes fundraising for ACS U.N. Climate Change conference in Marrakech Posted by: yakelina / September 16, 2016 September 16, 2016 Current Lute Maddie Smith (’17) and recent alumna Alice Henderson (’16) have been selected for an amazing opportunity this Fall.   They are 2 of 8 students selected nationwide (and the only ones from the West Coast) to be delegates representing the American Chemical Society (ACS) at this year’s U.N. Conference of Parties (COP 22) of the UNFCCC in Marrakech

UW Neurological Surgery Summer Student Program Posted by: nicolacs / November 11, 2021 November 11, 2021 Applications for the Neurological Surgery Summer Student Program (NSSSP) are now open. If you have an interest in the neurosciences and desire lab experience in neurological biomedical research, please apply. Applicants chosen to participate in the program will receive stipends of $3,200 over the duration of the 8-week program. Limited housing stipends (no meals or transportation) are