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January 12, 2011 Mike Vermuelen always liked rocks. Now he gets to study them up close in Antarctica. By Barbara Clements In a lab littered with Hostess snack bars and French fry wrappers, geosciences student Mike Vermeulen ’12, turns to his computer and pops up a map of Antarctica. He then points to a grid in the upper part of the frozen continent. Mike Vermeulen has always been fascinated by rocks and dinosaurs. This last winter, he travelled south to Antarctica to study deglaciation of rocks
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Assessment PlanningThe assessment plan is a critical part of program assessment. Once learning outcomes have been established and a curriculum map has been created to identify where in the curriculum learning is taking place, the assessment plan outlines the process by which learning will be measured by the department. More specifically, this document will introduce a cycle of assessment, explaining where in the curriculum each LO will be evaluated and how it will be assessed (using what
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available to all PLU employees. If you smart commute to work and have an emergency situation, you qualify for Emergency Ride Home. You may use Emergency Ride Home to travel from PLU to: Your home The location of your personal vehicle; for example, park-and-ride lot, daycare center, carpool partner’s home The ferry terminal (taxi reimbursement ends at the ferry terminal) An intermediate stop is permitted if it is related to the nature of the emergency, such as picking up a sick child from school before
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easy to ‘fall off track’ in college. “PLU has expectations similar to what a parent expects.” Scott always knew he wanted to be a music teacher and he wanted to find the best program. He looked at California, Oregon, the local public universities and some of the private colleges. “PLU offered the most respected music education program and I knew PLU would give me the best outcome,” he said. “I liked the student to faculty ratio – and the quality of the music education program was superior.” He
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December 1, 2009 The Meeting Pace Chris McKnight ’12 likes to think of Hinderlie Hall as a meeting place between upper and lower campus. And he has a point: the hall sits right on the slope – called Hinderlie Hill, no less – that divides upper and lower campus. But to McKnight, a sophomore math major from LaConner, Wash., the idea of a meeting place means more than that. He considers it the place where all types of PLU students come together. “Hinderlie is the bridge – there is a little bit of
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Entry-Level Pathway to the MSN Schedule Program length: 27 months (not including pre-requisite coursework) Program start: Summer (early June) Pre-licensure portion: Attend classes full-time, Monday through Friday. PLU classes may be scheduled any time between 8:00am and 8:00pm. Students must be available for clinicals anytime between 6:00am and 11:00pm. Students in the pre-licensure portion are strongly encouraged not to work. None of the classes are online. The post-licensure portion
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Dr. Bryn NelsonBryn Nelson, PhD, is an award-winning science and medical writer, the author of Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure (Grand Central Publishing), and a former microbiologist trained in bacterial biochemistry at the University of Washington. As a science writer at Newsday from 2000 to 2007, Nelson wrote frequently about the Human Genome Project, gene therapy, stem cell research, conservation, global warming, ecology, and the West Nile virus. Among his awards, he
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French & Francophone Studies Learning Outcomes French & Francophone Studies majors will be able to: Demonstrate French language proficiency at the Advanced-low proficiency level, as defined by ACTFL. Demonstrate understanding of diversity within French and Francophone cultures (in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia) and of their products, practices, and perspectives. Develop an original hypothesis to analyze and evaluate texts (broadly understood) grounded in French language study, research
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Campus Network RegistrationPLU’s Information and Technology Services department provides wired and wireless network connectivity options for PLU community members as well as guests while on campus. All devices on the PLU network must be registered through the campus registration system at moat.plu.edu before access is allowed to any network resources. Assistance with problems related to your network connection is provided through the Help Desk (253-535-7525), located on the first floor of the
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March 30, 2011 Busy dad envisions healthy ‘Plan B’ for parents Just like so many other families, Peter Gradwohl ’90 and his wife, Andrea, once struggled to balance busy work schedules with the stress of providing healthy food for their three kids. So, three years ago, with people like themselves in mind, the Gradwohls launched Fantazimo, a Seattle-based company that packs well-balanced lunches for local school kids. “I kind of had an ah-ha moment,” Peter Gradwohl said, “when I was making three
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