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to tackle real-world challenges.  The data science program will provide students with essential analytical tools and techniques for extracting meaningful and precise insights from data. “In this era of data ubiquity, there is a high demand for graduates who major in data science,” said program director and assistant professor Jeff Caley. “Our program equips students with robust technical skills while also fostering a commitment to ethics, social responsibility, and conscientious practice.” The

and camaraderie, but also ensure that students will fulfill both their Christian Traditions and their Global Religious Traditions requirements through this thematically unified pair of courses. Priority will be given to students who have declared or intend to pursue careers in medicine, counseling, hospital chaplaincy, or other healing traditions.Llewellyn Ihssen’s course (RELI 227) will explore the ways in which illness and healing have been understood within the Christian religion, from the

January 21, 2014 Lutes study social justice at one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious universities By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director Nine Pacific Lutheran University students are studying at Oxford University as part of the first such program at PLU, one of the only universities on the West Coast to offer such an opportunity. The students, who departed PLU the first week of J-term, will spend the next six months at Oxford studying social justice issues, those issues around

campus for both his passion for student learning and also his knack for teaching design principles to all students, including those lucky enough to be Design majors in the B.F.A. program. Avila’s influence on PLU’s Innovation Studies program is significant. Because of his guidance, all students working toward the Innovation Studies minor must develop essential skills in either Communications or Design, in addition to the essential coursework that they take in business, economics, history, and ethics

understanding how to gauge whether an article is trustworthy or not.Read full project briefJalyn Turner: Should Social Media Companies De-Platform Users? Artist statement: For this critical making assignment, I made an infographic discussing why social media companies should and should not de-platform users. This infographic aims to be impartial and weigh the costs and benefits of each side.I used information from our discussions on “Social Media & Free Speech,” but specifically borrowed topics from our

the guidance of Assistant Professor Mark Mulder, the students traveled to the northwest corner of the country to help build a well under the auspices of Living Water International, a Christian NGO that organizes well projects around the world. Living Water operates in 26 countries, and works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSb6gmwYvRw community by community to help resolve the world-wide clean-water crisis. The entire project was hatched in the fall of 2012 during a marketing class, where students

groups so users can avoid substitutions with chemicals with similar hazards, and to generate teaching resources for students and professors. Find more information and the application details here: https://www.pca.state.mn.us/waste/green-and-safer-product-chemistry-grants Read Previous Lab Technician & Postdoc positions at Tulane University School of Medicine Read Next High School Chemistry Teacher at Seattle Christian School LATEST POSTS ACS Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Respect (DEIR

the newly launched pre-law minor to her workload. The pre-law minor complements Pacific Lutheran University’s pre-law advising program, which is designed to help students interested in attending law school, including assisting students in selecting a law school. The pre-law minor will offer courses from several disciplines to develop student’s skills in understanding the law, developing a sense of professional ethics, practicing analytical reasoning, growing in their written and oral communication

setting and read actual philosophical texts. When I got to college, my writing 101 class was taught by philosophy professor Dr. Michael Rings, so he kind of led me into it. Once I took a philosophy course, I realized it was a lot of fun. I love talking about ethics, morality, logic and argumentative writing. My formal Logic course was a lot of fun and actually helped me in a different math course. What are some moments that stand out to you during your time at PLU? This year I started a radio show

suspect sources. Yet students honestly believe they understand the ethics of using sources and feel they know exactly where to find credible information. Faculty wonder, “Didn’t they learn this in high school?” The PLU librarians have been exploring these divides through quantitative and qualitative research studies that examine student research confidence and experiences. We hope to better understand our students in order to serve them better. We also hope faculty can use our data to more effectively