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November 1, 2010 From PLU to a one-room school house, instructor sees value in great instruction By Chris Albert As a teacher for 35 years, Margaret Dakan ’38 saw the difference an education could make in a person’s life. Her belief in the kind of education Pacific Lutheran University provides is why she has supported the university through scholarship programs like Q Club, Project Access and an endowed scholarship that benefits education students: the Margaret Melver Dakan Endowed Scholarship
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Data Science in Oceanography Summer Program at UW Posted by: nicolacs / April 19, 2023 April 19, 2023 The School of Oceanography at the University of Washington, with support from the eScience Institute, is excited to announce an undergraduate summer program, “Data Science in Oceanography.” The goal of the program is to provide undergraduate students with opportunities in contemporary data-driven research in oceanography and attract them to exciting possibilities of career paths in oceanography
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Faculty of Social Sciences at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is a senior advisor to the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York and co-director of AIDS-Free World. Symposium presentations and seminars moved to campus following his opening address. Representatives of NGOs and area leaders in science and business discussed their involvement in finding and delivering solutions – from active on-site intervention to benchmark research and the formulation of public
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sister, who graduated in 2022 with a degree in biology. At first, Ambachew thought she’d go into computer programming and user experience design by majoring in computer science. In her first year at PLU, a Microsoft internship taught her about software engineering and product management. Ambachew dove into the field, working part-time during the school year and full-time one summer with Geeking Out Kids of Color (GOKiC). GOKiC is a Seattle-area after-school and summer program offering multicultural
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Education for the College of Education at the University of Oregon. He also serves as the director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education (CATE) at the U of O. He is a fellow of the International Academy for Education. Zhao bases many of his observations on extensive research and firsthand experience as a student in China and as a parent of children attending school in the United States. His unique perspective leads him to conclude that “American education is at a crossroads” and “we need to
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truly amazing things. Over the course of our 10-12 week internship experience you will have the opportunity to: Work directly with a mentor in your field of study while finding solutions to real world problems Experience our products up close by touring our state-of-the-art manufacturing and research facilities Interact directly with our company leaders to discuss strategy and the future of Boeing Build a lasting professional network through social events and engaging activities Gain the skills and
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students while maximizing the learning experience, the importance of understanding and flexibility when it comes to the challenges students are working through, and the support systems faculty have put in place to stay connected.PLU: What’s the adjustment period been like for you and other faculty transitioning to this distance-learning approach? Yaden: As director of the Language Resource Center since 1996, and before that as a teaching assistant in graduate school, I’ve been fortunate to make
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decided to run a marathon just to see if she could do it. “It’s how I dealt with my stress, and once I decided to do it, I wasn’t going to quit. It was a huge sense of accomplishment and it taught me, ‘you can do hard stuff.’” Rosenlund says the ABSN program is for self-starters who can be flexible with their time. “Much of the work is asynchronous and self-driven, so you have to commit to it.” That commitment paid off. She’ll graduate in May and she hopes to soon begin work as an emergency room nurse
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, practice, he said. Quoting from Malcolm Gladwell’s book “The Outliers,” Anderson said that very successful people don’t simply pop out of the box that way. But rather, they usually encounter a unique opportunity and work very hard at their craft. Before Bill Gates Jr. became a billionaire, he snuck out of his room to work at computers at his high school. The Beatles first booked gigs in dingy small clubs in Germany, for up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week. He encouraged the students to find a topic
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April 24, 2014 New MediaLab Event Features Career Advice from Successful Alumni By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Six alumni came back to Pacific Lutheran University on April 22 to serve as panelists for the inaugural MediaLab Presents event. The panelists, who graduated from PLU in 2005 or more recently, all work in high-profile jobs in communication and business: 1. Chris Bowen ’09 graduated with a degree in PR and Advertising and now works as a Senior Project Manager at Radarworks in Seattle. 2
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