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business solutions that help increase a company’s bottom line.Company’s use big data in myriad ways. They use marketing analytics to evaluate the success of their marketing campaigns and to determine which marketing efforts need improvement and how they can be improved. Marketing analytics are even used to improve the customer experience, bringing in new clients and retaining current ones. With marketing analytics, companies know exactly how to reach their customer base. Every industry uses data in

experience at PLU taught me to care.  It taught me to care for the successes of everyone around me,” Haven said. “On any given day, (more than 200) young minds walk through my door, and my hope is they learn from the lessons I learned at PLU.  … My hope is to create a classroom that has so many of the good qualities that are deeply rooted in PLU.” Read Previous A Flutist’s Unplanned Path to Success Read Next Alice Giles ‘cool’ World Harp Tour stops in Tacoma LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies

I witnessed in Japan.” Another lesson Gerhardstein gleaned was that music education is about having fun. The element of fun shows up in music repertoire and the addition of simple choreography for audience appeal. The biggest benefit of the relationship is that the Tamana and Graham Kapowsin students  learn and experience the world not only through travel but through this musical and cultural exchange.   “For our students at PLU, it is an amazing opportunity to have the Tamana Girls’ Band on our

., learning how to operate the equipment, including the 16-inch telescope, and talking about space. It was a culmination of a childhood passion for astronomy and astrophysics. “My first class at PLU was a physics course with Dr. Bret Underwood,” said Kop. “I knew it was going to be difficult, and it was. But the new experience of a small class with a professor who is very good at one-on-one talks and working with individual students, was just great,” he said. Kop’s interest for science grew when he took

The Passing of Bryan Dorner Posted by: nicolacs / June 4, 2024 Image: at PLU on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. June 4, 2024 Professor Emeritus Bryan Dorner passed away on Sunday, May 19, 2024. Beloved by his students and peers alike, Bryan joined the Department of Mathematics in 1980 and retired in 2017. He earned tenure in 1986 and was promoted to full professor in 2004. “Bryan truly cared about students’ learning and provided an exceptional PLU experience to them,” says emeritus Mathematics

students the keys to guide their college experience and avoid looking back on it after graduation and wondering, “What if?” Students are able to learn what PLU has to offer early in their college careers and begin figuring out what they want to achieve in their time here. It also aims to help students begin the process of discovering their vocation, identity and purpose. The first years are just beginning to understand what the vocation of a student is, how that fits with what they are studying and how

-shirts packed, which they’ve been handing out as appreciation gifts to speakers and others who have influenced their experience. For example, the group presented philosophy professor Ivo Assad Ibri from the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo with one after he gave them a tour of his university and the University of Sao Paulo. “He was so touched,” Mulder said. “He said he would cherish the shirt as a reminder of our visit.” Mulder then recounted a conversation he with some local business

overseeing the SAAC. Her work supports the National Collegiate Athletic Association requirements that the committee be made up of student-athletes to provide insight on the student-athlete experience and offer input on the rules, regulations and polices that affect student-athletes on campus. Thomas’ work is clearly paying off. At the outset, SAAC met once a month. Attendance – and effectiveness – was irregular as committee members sought to determine the council’s role on campus. Much has changed in the

additional French language scholarship from the Fulbright program and the Swiss government. She leaves June 26 for nine weeks of language training, and begins her master’s program in the fall. Fulbright scholarships are awarded to U.S. citizens to study overseas. The program, founded in 1946 to promote “international good will through the exchange of students,” operates in more than 140 countries. It provides funding for one academic year of study or an English teaching assistantship experience. Read

Heather Mathews, assistant art professor and the exhibit’s curator. “It’s a way to raise our profile in the community,” Mathews said. “It’s also the beginning of building the gallery as a more integrated part of the art program.” With the advent of an art history major being offered in the department this fall, Mathews said the gallery presents an opportunity to give students hands-on curating experience. The gallery has always been important to the department, she said, but the new major presents an