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Are you looking to apply and grow the skills you are learning in school in a professional environment while serving your community with clean, reliable water? If you answered “yes,” be sure to apply to Tacoma Water’s electrical engineering internship opportunity! Tacoma Water has an internship…
internships are typically 40 hours per week, 12 weeks long, and coincide with the summer break. Interested candidates must be currently enrolled in an engineering program studying electrical engineering or related field. The roles require advanced technical skills, teamwork, flexibility, ability to organize, perform a variety of on-going tasks, customer service skills, and basic engineering calculations. Tacoma Water values diverse perspectives and recognizes it is diversity that fuels innovation. Tacoma
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Are you looking to apply and grow the skills you are learning in school in a professional environment while serving your community with clean, reliable water? If you answered “yes,” be sure to apply to Tacoma Water’s engineering internship opportunities! Tacoma Water has four engineering internship…
. Interested candidates must be currently enrolled in an engineering program studying civil, environmental, mechanical engineering or related field. The roles require advanced technical skills, teamwork, flexibility, ability to organize, perform a variety of on-going tasks, customer service skills, and basic engineering calculations. Tacoma Water values diverse perspectives and recognizes it is diversity that fuels innovation. Tacoma Water under Tacoma Public Utilities is committed to achieving equity and
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At a liberal-arts college such as Pacific Lutheran University where open dialogue is not just encouraged but expected a healthy argument between students is a common occurrence. But no one crafts strategic arguments like the Lutes of PLU’s historic Speech and Debate team . You…
authoritative new book that offers the first comprehensive history of American forensics, “Forensics in America: A History.” Building upon this tradition, PLU Speech & Debate has had a very successful season. With a largely new team and a new coach, the team’s success is not so surprising considering the amount of work members put into honing their craft. Tinker, for example, is not only working on old skills; he is working on something new. He and his teammates developed a never-before-seen strategy of
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Senior studying in Tanzania discovers self As a philosophy and classics major, senior Lindsey Webb always planned to spend a semester studying away in Greece. However, a student-faculty research project with philosophy professor Erin McKenna changed her plans. McKenna and Webb studied great apes and…
park and observed free-living chimpanzees. She also spent several days at the institute talking to the staff and learning about the conservation strategy. On one of the last days of her visit, she toured villages in the area, talking to the villagers about how they interact with the conservation project. Along with Webb, five other Lutes – Andy Guinn, Caroline Gonia, Brian Wehmhoefer, Meredith Forrey and Jessica Baumer – studied in Tanzania this fall. Four students from St. Olaf and three from
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Mark Lee, Mimi Granlund and Matt Hubbard and the apparatus they built to help them understand how the roughness and size of a tongue would affect the amount of water an animal could lap up and still be efficient. (Photos by John Froschauer) What exactly…
, and I know I want to teach English as a second language overseas.” Zach Grah ’13, left, and his fellow students ran a simulated company for 20 consecutive quarters, culminating in a competition against 29 other universities in Long Beach, Calif. (Photo by John Struzenberg ’15) Zach Grah ’13 gained the mental toughness and confidence to take risks through his business capstone – a business strategy competition. And that toughness and confidence paid dividends when, later, an opportunity to work for
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Tacoma, Wash. — Pacific Lutheran University is pleased to announce that Kathleen Richardson, assistant professor of nursing, has been selected to be a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (Academy). Richardson also serves as associate dean of academic affairs at PLU. “Dr. Richardson has…
wide variety of influential roles in health care. Induction into the Fellowship represents more than recognition of one’s accomplishments within the nursing profession. Fellows contribute their collective expertise to the Academy, engaging with health leaders nationally and globally to improve health and achieve health equity by impacting policy through nursing leadership, innovation, and science. Through a competitive, rigorous application process, the Academy’s Fellow Selection Committee
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Sustainability Fellows to tackle bikes, recycling Juniors Lauren Buchholz and Eric Pfaff were named the 2008-09 Sustainability Fellows last week. Awarded annually by the Sustainability Committee , the fellowships give students an opportunity to further the campus sustainability effort by researching existing practices and the…
staff about the 2006 campaign to determine what strategies worked and what barriers still exist. Using the survey results, she’ll develop a marketing strategy to inform employees about the campaign and further recycling efforts. Additionally, Buchholz will examine the Environmental Services surplus program and develop an advertising campaign to increase awareness. The surplus program collects unused items from around campus, such as desks, chairs and couches, and sells them at regular garage sales
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 2, 2016)- Co-founder of Android and Pacific Lutheran University graduate Nick Sears took the technology world by storm when he teamed up with inventors Andy Rubin and Chris White to market and launch Android, one of the world’s top operating systems for…
role as co-founder and chief strategy officer before Google purchased the operating system in July 2005. Sears remained involved at Google, working on Android product development and marketing. By every account, Sears spent more than seven years creating and perfecting the modern-day smartphone. He credits PLU with helping him get there. “I came to PLU to study business,” Sears said, “but I left with a lot more than a (Bachelor of Business Administration).” Now, another former Lute has inspired his
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TACOMA, Wash. (March 5, 2015)— On Saturday, March 21, a diverse and distinguished group of speakers will present “ideas worth spreading” at the fourth annual installation of TEDx Tacoma. Among that group will be three Pacific Lutheran University faculty members representing a variety of PLU’s…
book Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Youth and the author of the book Everyday Injustice: Latino Professionals and Racism, which won the prestigious American Political Science Association’s Latino Caucus Best Book Award in Latino Politics published in 2011.Bradd BusickAdjunct Professor of BusinessBusick, who earned his Bachelor of Science and MBA degrees from PLU, is the Senior Manager of Strategy, Planning and Architecture at the Bill and Melinda Gates
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Housing is something many of us take for granted. Much more than just a place to sleep and a structure to shelter us from the elements, our homes provide the space we need to maintain a functional life. It’s where we manage our mental health,…
, Seattle’s largest nonprofit developer and operator of affordable housing. “I am under no illusion that my work will solve the affordable housing crisis or homelessness,” Boyd admits. “Every day, I face questions of the ethics, strategy, politics and technical complexity of how to do the most social good with the resources available.” “I am under no illusion that my work will solve the affordable housing crisis or homelessness. Every day, I face questions of the ethics, strategy, politics and technical
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