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Students at Work

Each year PLU students are hard at work doing  independent research, working with faculty on their research, doing internships in local museums and businesses, and otherwise being of service to the community. On this page we highlight a few of their recent accomplishments.

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S. Erving Severtson/Forest Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowships

2007-2008

Lindsay Zager  (faculty: Bradford Andrews)
Academic Activism Through an
Educated Lens: Primate Observation to Promote Primate Conservation

2006-2007

Krystle Amundson  (faculty: Neal Sobania)
The Hans and Thelma Lehman Collection of African Art at PLU: An Updated, Informative Interpretation

2005-2006


Jeffrey Horton, Jeni Morris, and Stefanie Midlock (faculty: David Huelsbeck)

Terrestrial Paleoshoreline Sites: The Lithic Assemblage
Terrestrial Paleoshoreline Sites: The Mammal Bone Assemblages
Terrestrial Paleoshoreline Sites: The Fish Remains

2004-2005

Rylan Snodgrass and Gabielle  Brockman  (faculty: Kevin Vaughn)

Excavations in Peru

2003-2004

Aaron Dennis (faculty: David Huelsbeck)

Prehistoric Fish Remains:  Fiji




Curating the New Guinea Collection

Krystal Krystal Amundson has worked this year identifying and presenting the artifacts given to PLU by the Groh family in honor of their husband and father. Krystal is putting the final touches on the display case in Xavier Hall where she highlights a selection of the artifacts.

 

Webpages in the Aztec Culture Class


Jterm 2007 found students in Bradford Andrew's class on Aztec Culture writing their own webpages for their research topics. Click the names for samples of their work:

Ian Swenson  

Lauren Westgaard  

Amber May 

Guillermo Canche

Severtson Awards


 S. Erving Severtson/Forest Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowships are presented to students in the Social Scientce to allow them to conduct research with faculty mentors.  Students (and their mentors) apply in the Spring semester.  Ideally, interested students should meet with potential mentors by the beginning of the Spring semester.


Getting Dirty

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