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) Social Innovation Projects at PLU I had the chance to sit down with PLU’s Professor Mark Mulder recently for a conversation about social innovation and his experience in the field. Professor Mulder teaches Marketing and Consumer Behavior in the School of Business. He also has a background in Social Innovation, conducts and publishes related research, and frequently leads a program that works collaboratively with groups in Central America to build wells and teach health-related topics in the community
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happier lives in the moment and over time. The importance of service is enhanced by the importance of ensuring the transition of theory to practice by always staying current with literature and striving to be the best professional I can be for those I am working with and helping in their lives. I believe that PLU’s program has prepared me for the job hunt process as well as for my future career by developing my ability to research seminal and current research as well as emphasizing theory to practice
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[Deej] Heath. I could always talk to them about not only mathematics but navigating university and life in general. Do you have plans set for after graduation? I applied to various grad schools. I’m interested in the academic path of talking about our fellow humans within the realm of justice. I am also doing research assistance with a professor at UC Irvine about activist groups participating in open rescuing of animals from research labs or factory farms. Read Previous Brian Sung ’24 discusses his
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she never considered before. She asked herself an essential question: How do normal people apply social justice to their everyday lives and jobs? She had prepared thoroughly to become a medical doctor. Even though her passion wasn’t gone, something was changing. Thiele participated in a summer undergraduate research project with Mary Ellard-Ivey, associate professor of biology. They worked to create better plant development in third-world countries. She never thought about working with plants, but
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sprinkle in a little dry humor, and mix slowly. Lytle is not a chef – at least professionally. In fact, at one point in his life, Lytle pursued a path toward becoming a Lutheran pastor before he discovered that teaching chemistry was his true calling. Like the sermons he once envisioned, his lectures reveal an evangelistic zeal for helping others learn chemistry. After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota, Lytle spent three years at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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university where he would ultimately teach, his thought process was similar to that of a high school student looking for a college. (And considering he has a daughter in college now and a high school senior exploring all options, he has some recent experience.) Every university, after all, has its positives and negatives. Brown considered his options. “Do I want a larger school where there may be greater opportunities for research,” he asked. “Do I want a school where teaching is prized; where it is
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of about 100 people who came to listen to him talk about the years of research, and hundreds of archives searched for his book. “But it would not have the industrial, automated Holocaust,” where each camp had a number, each victim had a tattoo and each victim was researched back through the generations. Black talk was part of the Fall Lecture series under the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies programs. The second lecture will be Nov. 15, when Peter Altmann will present a special viewing of
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the hearts of many PLU students, fellow faculty members, and a wide circle of friends around the world who had the good fortune to study with him throughout Central and South America. Bill began his service as Professor of Biology at PLU in July 2000. He served as Associate Provost from his arrival at PLU in 2000 to June 2003, and as Chair of PLU’s Environmental Studies Program from August 2007 to February 2014. To say that Bill was tirelessly dedicated to teaching, scientific research, and
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other very well.” The two will be spending a lot of time together as they travel around Norway. They each have a research project to complete during their time with the International Summer School, where they will study with students from 80 countries around the world. The global connection was one of the highlights for Peace Scholar alumna Ellie Lapp ’17. “A casual dinner conversation or walking down the hallway can be more like cultural experiences and experiences of diversity,” Lapp said. “These
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, Ksenija Simić-Muller and Daniel [Deej] Heath. I could always talk to them about not only mathematics but navigating university and life in general. Do you have plans set for after graduation? I applied to various grad schools. I’m interested in the academic path of talking about our fellow humans within the realm of justice. I am also doing research assistance with a professor at UC Irvine about activist groups participating in open rescuing of animals from research labs or factory farms. View this
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