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  • Matthew Conover ’19 explains how PLU helped prepare him for a career in software engineering Posted by: Zach Powers / November 16, 2021 Image: Matthew Conover ’19 senior software engineer at Rainway, a Seattle-based video game streaming service. (Photos by Ed Carlo Garcia) November 16, 2021 By Lisa Patterson '98PLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterWhen Matthew Conover ’19 was a student at PLU, he recalls someone telling him there were two types of software engineers: the ones who chose to

  • next). See “Accrual Calculation” section. **The maximum vacation accrual will be prorated for staff who are less than full-time (1.0 FTE) based on the staff member’s annual FTE. Employees in Exempt Positions – Full-time exempt employees accrue vacation at the rate of 14.68 hours per month, equivalent to 22 days per year. The maximum vacation accrual is 200 hours. Part-time exempt employees who are eligible for benefits (regularly scheduled to work .5 FTE or more) accrue vacation on a prorated basis

  • or inside this story,’” she says. “Recently I heard about a 58-year-old Parisian who works as the city’s only umbrella repairman. I love that.” Walton also says she can’t help but incorporate people she loves into the characters in her stories. She explains that this is the case with many of the characters in The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender : “Henry was based on an autistic boy I taught who had a preoccupation with and remarkable aptitude for mapmaking, Trouver was a neighbor’s

  • and begins bringing CMC Constitution up to date. DECEMBER Campus Ministry Review complete and CMC begins consultative oversight over prioritization and implementation of review recommendations. CMC appoints nominating committee per its constitution (similar to a call committee in a local congregation). JANUARY University pastor job description is developed based on the recommendations from the Campus Ministry Review and related vision for the role of Campus Ministry. University pastor position

  • fishes. My research involves field collection of specimens, DNA sequencing, and specimen-based morphological work. My past research projects have involved using morphological and molecular data to reconstruct evolutionary relationships, cryptic diversity, and spine morphology in madtom catfishes. I am currently working on the phylogeography of fishes distributed in the Mississippi Embayment, a region containing multiple lowland streams in western Tennessee and Mississippi. The goal of this project is

  • Namuwongo” Matt Kennedy and Margaret Chang will relate how in the summer of 2008 the program called “Empowerment Soccer” came to Namuwongo, an urban slum less than 2 miles from Uganda’s capital, Kampala. This sport based, life skills soccer program is designed to improve quality of life urban youth and men. In late spring 2009 Matt and Margaret returned to Uganda and ran the 2nd Annual Empowerment Soccer Tournament, living their believe that sports helps maintain unity between people of all cultures and

  • Namuwongo” Matt Kennedy and Margaret Chang will relate how in the summer of 2008 the program called “Empowerment Soccer” came to Namuwongo, an urban slum less than 2 miles from Uganda’s capital, Kampala. This sport based, life skills soccer program is designed to improve quality of life urban youth and men. In late spring 2009 Matt and Margaret returned to Uganda and ran the 2nd Annual Empowerment Soccer Tournament, living their believe that sports helps maintain unity between people of all cultures and

  • disciplinary lens of the semester’s Site Director — a PLU-IHON faculty member who will teach a place-based 200-level seminar and lead you on study tours in London, Manchester and other sites Apply what you’re reading and learning to your own experiences in the 4-credit, discussion-based “Living and Learning in Oxford” course, also led by the PLU Site Director Become an Associate Member of an Oxford college with dining and other privileges in the college Take part in induction into the world-renowned

  • success with injecting Nipah virus glycoproteins and vaccinia virus recombinant proteins into hamsters, which displayed that all hamsters survived from this vaccination method after subsequent challenges. Another vaccination method written in 2019 used a multi-epitope vaccination that produced humoral and cell-mediated immunity. Developing vaccines based on mechanistic understanding of viral function, paired with education of zoonosis and spillover events provide a great combative ability to fight

  • : Music Theory & Analysis IA (2) MUSI 135: Music Theory & Analysis IB (2) MUSI 136: Music Theory & Analysis II (3) MUSI 151: Keyboard Musicianship I (1) and/or MUSI 152: Keyboard Musicianship II (1) or MUSI 251: Keyboard Musicianship III (1) or successful completion of the Keyboarding Proficiency Assessment All first-year students should complete the Theory online placement test before class registration. Students will be placed in the appropriate level Music Theory & Analysis course based on the test