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organizations include the Asia Pacific Cultural Center, Business Impact Northwest, Korean Women’s Association, Mi Centro, PLU School of Business, The Black Collective, and Washington APEX Accelerator.As director, Kreis supports approximately 120 entrepreneurial clients. She travels all over Pierce County, from the Key Peninsula through Parkland and Tacoma, and out to Eatonville at the base of Mount Rainier. Kreis offers her knowledge and expertise through one-on-one consultations. Sometimes, she refers them
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February 11, 2011 For more than a month, geosciences professor Claire Todd and her geosciences student, Michael Vermeulen ’12 lived and worked on the ice in Antarctica. (Photos by Claire Todd) Editor’s Note: For the past two research seasons, Assistant Professor of Geosciences Claire Todd and two students, Mike Vermeulen ’12 and Mathew Hegland ’13 travelled to Antarctica to research climate change among the rocks and ice. Vermeulen went with Todd in the 2010-2011 research season, while Hegland
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. “Most could not see the Holocaust amidst all the horror,” after the war, Hayes said. Reparations were addressed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Four things had to change for a surge in reparations Professor Peter Hayes of Northwestern University talks about the long fight for restitution by those who suffered under the Nazis in WWll. Billions have been paid over the last decades, but it took the ending of the Cold War and the power of class action suits to bring justice for some heirs and
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through titles of the most popular movies on Netflix. As a computer graphics wiz for feature films and television, he has worked on 2012, The Kite Runner, Jeepers Creepers and The Triangle, a SyFy Channel miniseries for which he won an Emmy in 2006. More than 55 movies and projects are listed on his resume, some 18 years after he took his PLU fine arts degree to Hollywood. While a new LOTR film The Hobbit, is in preproduction mode in New Zealand, Perry said this month that he has no plans to pull up
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deliver IT services to the organization. These places have different needs, but how you run it – how you run a service desk, how you secure your desktop computers, how you provide applications so people can get their jobs done every day – it’s pretty common across all of them. In your director position, are you still getting down into the weeds of IT projects and puzzle-solving? Oh yes, absolutely. That’s my favorite part of the job. It’s important that I understand the day-to-day challenges of making
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worship assistants (ushers, Communion assistants, lectors, intercessors and cantors); and • Campus Ministries offers opportunities in Holden Evening Prayer sessions, the worship band Deliverance, Chapel Choir and hands-on service projects. Oh—and there’s this: free snacks after every Chapel service. Read Previous PLU Interns Connect with New Opportunities Read Next Convocation 2014 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or
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might be considering writing a memoir and self-publishing a book? My advice for anyone contemplating writing their own memoir and self-publishing is simple — know why you’re writing. You should also have an idea of who your target audience is, but it’s absolutely fundamental to know your why. You’ll need to know your why when it’s 2 a.m. and you’re editing, or when you start reaching out to editors because, you guessed it, these projects take money. What experiences at PLU helped prepare you to
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about homework or projects. I never got the impression that a professor made their class difficult just to be difficult. Everything we learned had a purpose. Any challenges? I can’t think of any negative experiences that I’ve had at PLU. I really enjoyed the small class sizes. I’m not just a student ID number, the professors actually know me by name, and we can talk before or after class. Another aspect I really like is the student body. When enrolling in these STEM courses, most of us are science
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. There were group projects and presentations in both her education classes and in other classes. As an educator, she draws upon collaboration skills often. “We’re working with our stakeholders, with our colleagues, to ensure that we’re creating programs that support kids,” she says. During her administrative credential program at PLU, Helle also learned the importance of self-reflection in developing her leadership style. It’s something she has embraced as part of her practice as an educator. “It’s
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impact that the pandemic is having in many parts of Native North America by considering the significance of this present moment in light of a centuries-long history of colonialism, epidemic disease, and contemporary efforts to reclaim tribal sovereignty and control over healthcare. What do you think the alumni panel will add to the experience? There are three things the panel will add to the experience. First, like the academic expertise of my faculty colleagues, we look forward to the insights that
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