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such a highly-regarded institution and to help shape the next generation of people committed to lives of service, leadership and care for others.” Donna Gibbs is the new Vice President of Marketing and Communications. Gibbs most recently served as managing director, and helped establish the west coast operations, of Bluetext, a Washington, D.C.-based digital marketing and strategic communications firm that counts among its clients Google, Adobe, Cisco and Intel.  Before joining Bluetext, Gibbs

factors like the number of users and geographic interference. Thousands of students nationwide compete in the contest every year. The students spent Thursday to Monday, figuring out what problem to address based on their team members knowledge, researching models (including looking at White on YouTube, frame by frame), testing their models and then writing 10 to 20 pages explaining their model and how they came up with it. “It’s a lot of thinking and sitting,” said Kyle Burns ’11, whose team took on

of the School of Arts and Communication. “The new studio theater will enable us to offer additional student-based performance space,” Bennett said. “As a student-based space, more senior capstones, performances, scene and lighting designs, and plays will be produced.” “Because of this space becoming stronger, the students will have a lot more opportunity and they’ll have a home,” Clapp added. “This new space will provide our students with a central campus location,” Bennett said. “This will be a

program, my advice is two-fold. First, do your homework. So much of a graduate program is less about that degree/diploma itself and more about the opportunities, who you want to surround yourself with and what you plan on doing after the program.Take into consideration faculty, is it more research-based, applied-based, or a blend, and think about where you will be challenged to grow the most. The other piece of my advice is to make sure that you really want it and that you really love to learn what

industry,” he said. “It seemed right to me, so I decided to give it a shot.” The company grew quickly, and in 1990 was named by Inc. Magazine as one of the fasting-growing small companies in the United States. That same year, he bought-out his partner and renamed the business Pinnacle Rarities, based in Lakewood, Wash., and focused the company on high-end collectors and investors. “I quickly acquired an appreciation for the history and artistry of coins, and more important, I found I loved dealing with

had voluntarily committed to compost most food waste – a program that has diverted nearly 70 percent of dining waste from the landfill. A snazzy new lighting system goes beyond simple sensors that turn off lights when a room is unoccupied. This system has an internal, perpetual calendar. It controls what lights turn on and when, based on the rising and setting of the sun, or the percentage of daylight infiltrating a space. Additionally, building occupants received “task lights.” The fluorescent

March 9, 2009 Sludge from the grill to be recycled The gooey mess which sloughs from the grill at the UC may look like something that you’d rather just toss and forget about. But to Wendy Robins and Colin Clifford, it’s pure gold. Or more specifically, the yellow smelly gunk means that PLU will be paid $100 a year to sell its grease to the Arlington-based Standard Biodiesel, rather than pay a rendering plant $300 a year to get rid of the mess, said Robins, day operations manager for dining

Colleges 2015” is one of the most widely used and recognized college-ranking publications. Its rankings are based on academic reputation, retention, graduation rate, faculty resources (including class size), student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving rate. PLU has ranked among the top 20 Western region universities every year since the first annual “Best College” survey in 1983. “The publication of college rankings is a business enterprise that capitalizes on anxiety about college

25th and 101st in the two respective categories. The Washington Monthly, a Washington, D.C.-based news magazine, began ranking colleges 11 years ago, as a direct response to the rankings published by U.S. News & World Report. “Every year, (U.S. News & World Report) would rate the nation’s institutions of higher learning on measures of wealth, fame and exclusivity, then publish the results as a list of ‘best’ colleges,” Kevin Carey wrote in the September/October 2016 issue of Washington Monthly

PLU Karate Club, the Center for Gender Equity (CGE) and Harstad Hall. The series is a longer, more action-focused version of Fight the Fear, an annual campaign that has hosted shorter self-defense workshops on campus in the past. “It’s the physical piece that is going to build the self confidence,” said Dawn Cuthbertson, gender-based violence advocate for CGE. Cuthbertson also will be teaching participants about passive techniques to self defense, such as observation, avoidance and listening to