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incorporating a strong experiential learning component. The master’s in marketing analytics makes experts in the field who can leverage data-driven models to achieve deeper understanding of consumer behavior, solve marketing decision challenges and ultimately drive growth for both profit and non-profit organizations. “I work in Digital Strategy and Marketing Analytics for Metabolic Research Center. It’s a weight loss company that focuses on a long-term lifestyle change. I support and maintain our national
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. “Washoe and her family, despite their intelligence and amazing life stories, are in prison. They will be there for the rest of their lives because, having been raised by humans as deaf human children, they are neither fully human nor fully chimpanzee. This experience makes me further committed to challenging long-held cultural and philosophical beliefs about the position that we as humans occupy within the biosphere.” While learning to care for a family of four chimpanzees at a research center in
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January in China, however, conflicted with an equally important part of her life. Klauder is a member of the PLU swimming team. And she’s no ordinary swimmer – she qualified for the championship finals in five individual events during her first three years at PLU. Swimmer Jessie Klauder seeks the balance between the personal expectations of being a student and the personal and team expectations of being an athlete. While Klauder dove into her studies at the University of Chengdu, learning how to
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their citizenship or immigration status, religion or other status. PLU protects free expression of ideas as vital learning in an educational setting. Freedom of speech sometimes protects controversial ideas and sometimes protects even offensive and hurtful language; however, it does not protect personal threats, discriminatory conduct or other acts of misconduct that violate the Student Code of Conduct, university policies, or federal, state and local laws. I want to reiterate, in the strongest
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folks to vote. It was awesome. From there, I spent a year in AmeriCorps through a Tacoma-based program called Urban Leaders in Training. I also worked with Graduate Tacoma on a lot of cool projects, including translating a lot of their materials into Spanish. Then, after a couple of years in Oakland, California working in environmental organizing with Clean Water Action, I came home to Tacoma and got connected with Lutheran Community Services. It’s been a lot of learning and hopping around, but in
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gain valuable, hands-on experience. PLU nursing professor Lorena Guerrero noted the importance of the event in providing that platform for students. “Students have been wanting to become more involved in the pandemic,” she said while also volunteering her time at the clinic. “A lot of their clinicals have been affected, in one way or another, by the logistics and the surge in patients that a lot of hospitals have had. Things like this where a student can spend seven hours giving shots and learning
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doesn’t mean you have to be (Lutheran, that is) All this might sound funny, given our middle name. PLU reaches out to students of all faiths and all backgrounds – the 23 percent that are Lutheran, and the 77 that aren’t. This is exactly what Lutheran education is all about – a commitment to academic freedom and a learning atmosphere where all perspectives on faith and reason are expressed openly. #3 Nobody does a better job preparing students for medical school The only school in the state that sends
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work of repertoire in North America. They get to work with one of the world’s best-known conductors and one of the best-known composers of modern repertoire. There is great value in learning to collaborate on such a large scale and in such a visible setting. And I believe ultimately all the performers will be moved by the music and its connection to the story. The SOAC focus this year is on storytelling. What do you think this concert has to say about the art of communicating? We’re telling the
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yourself is a totally different thing and learning that skill kind of opened a lot of mental doors, which I am really grateful to her for.” Their relationship is so special to Schuck that her second daughter is named Elisabeth, Ringahl’s middle name. “Kris is really one of the most special people in the world,” Schuck said. “Every day I learn something from her.” EMBRACING THE NEXT CHAPTER Retirement is not new to Ringdahl. In fact, she’s been a part-time employee for nearly 30 years, after she took an
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pride … it was awesome and overwhelming hearing from so many people that night about how excited they were to work on things together. Being on the council is a team sport. Now that you have won, you have work to do! What are some things you are most excited to accomplish in your new role? I have a lot to learn quickly — about process and policy-making, and my new colleagues and how we’re going to work together. Figuring out a work-life balance for me and my family is part of that learning curve. I
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