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most creative times.” Duffy, Madeline and Matthew competed in 2022 as well, solving a problem on asteroid mining, an experience which set them up to assist associate professor of mathematics Mei Zhu in running the workshop that prepares students for the annual competition in February. Zhu has taught the J-term class on overload for almost twenty years. Before PLU had a BS in Applied Mathematics, it was one of the few opportunities for students interested in applying math skills to real-world
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being a kid in a candy shop.” In April, Hacker traveled with the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team to Burlington, Vt. to help the athletes prepare for the 2012 USA Hockey World Championships, where they won the silver medal. After the competition, Hacker came back to campus and offered her students a rare glimpse of cutting-edge practices from applied settings with world-class athletes. These examples make the coursework all the more meaningful to the students, who are inspired by her passion for
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, and then with Nike and the development of basketball shoes. He’d still like to design/develop shoes for Nike someday. One of the reasons he picked PLU was because of its marketing and business program, as well as its focus on helping students find their vocation and passion. He later switched from business to physical education and focused on teaching, but still had a laser interest in Nike. He told everyone he knew he wanted to work for the company, and applied for several jobs at the
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this can be applied to different parts of life, beyond the academic experience,” she said. Some of the students will be using their research to provide the underpinnings of their Capstone projects, while others will be presenting their research during fall conferences, the Poster & Oral Presentation Session, Sept. 23 in the Morken Center for Learning and Technology, and subsequently during the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust-sponsored Twenty-Third Regional Conference on Undergraduate Research of the
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to the Amazon campus in Seattle, I wasn’t sure what that entailed. I assumed we would get a tour, meet some employees and listen to a few presentations from Amazon leaders. As a senior about to graduate from PLU, I knew this kind of opportunity wouldn’t come up again in the three short months I have left at PLU.So I took a shot in the dark and applied to Amazon’s first annual Pacific Northwest Career Day Conference through PLU’s very own Career Connections. I sent in my resume and explained why I
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historically oppressed. Dean certainly is proud of her heritage, and is thankful the institution is honoring it. Opportunities for financial support on the basis of her individual tribal roots are significantly limited, Dean stressed, so she is especially grateful for PLU’s scholarship for native students. The intended nursing student applied to PLU on a whim, but has fallen in love since coming to campus. “I love how small the campus is and I love that the class sizes are so small,” Dean said. “You get to
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year. Check out worldofdifferenceseries.com for more information about the MediaLab documentary. Visit www.plu.edu/medialab to learn more about MediaLab, the applied research and multimedia program. Generous funding helped make “A World of Difference” and “More Than a Mission” possible. The former received funds from PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education and PLU’s Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability (DJS) Fund. The latter also received funds from PLU’s DJS Fund, as well as the Center for
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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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she submitted her paper on time. We were able to find temporary housing through a local Lutheran church. Generous members of the PLU community collected a fund for her. She applied for government assistance and, yet sadly, she had to drop out of PLU – the complications in her life were tremendous. This encounter with a working student who suddenly tumbled into poverty and near homelessness prompted me to research the incidence of impoverishment and chronic hunger in Pierce County. I was surprised
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2022 Religion Capstones Dr. Seth Dowland, Seminar in Religion Monday, May 23, from 2:00-4:30pm Livestream of the Spring 2022 Religion Capstones starting at 2:00pm on Monday, May 23rd. Jodie Holman “Proverbs 31:10-31 as a Guise of Female Agency: The Illusion of Power & Control” Abstract: Proverbs 31:10-31 encompasses an image of the ideal woman who retains all the qualities of the superlative wife and mother. This role model of the perfect woman has been applied to generations of women. My aim
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