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communications firm that counts among its clients Google, Adobe, Cisco and Intel. Before joining Bluetext, Gibbs lived and worked in Malta and Barcelona, Spain, where she served as chief marketing officer for emerging mobile media companies. Prior to moving abroad, Gibbs served as senior vice president for consumer marketing and ecommerce at PlanetOut, a leading media and entertainment company based in San Francisco. She also helped lead the company to a successful IPO in 2004. Earlier, Gibbs was executive

. “It helped me understand how a decision is made,” Doan said. “It’s not just coming from nowhere. It’s so easy now to collect data, but people are still struggling to figure out what you can do with it.” Mulder said graduates of the MSMR program are equipped to do just that. “It’s important to have data literacy,” he said, noting that it offers “more robust insights.” “PLU’s program focuses on this as a critical skill,” Mulder said. The approach is coupled with client projects that give graduate

in my family to get a master’s degree,” she said. “And I did it because I wanted to be the first.” Her decision to attend college was cultivated at home, by her parents who never earned degrees but constantly stressed the value of education. Oshiro’s father — born and raised in Oahu, Hawaii — served in the Army as part of the last wave of soldiers to be drafted. Coming from a large family with lots of siblings, college was a distant possibility for him. Still, Oshiro’s “super creative” dad, as

going. “I said, ‘Guys. What you’re pulling now is about what we do when we’re resting,’ ” Foltz said. The women train about 19 weeks during the academic year. The rest of the time they work out on their own – the rowing machines are where they push their bodies. They showed the men how to row with a purpose, incorporating their legs, backs and cores into every move along with their arms. “Every time you put that blade into the water you have to make the decision that you are going to push yourself

would help so much in making my business successful.” After three years and several twists along the way, Reed no longer has to eat Top Ramen. For her, art is more than a career, it is something that she has loved and labored at her whole life. “If I could go back and talk to myself when I was an 18-year-old kid coming to PLU, I would shake myself and tell myself to do what you want to do, from the beginning,” Reed said. “It would have made the most of my time here if I had just, from the get go

school after the Dec. 1 deadline — so start submitting students now, even if they’re freshmen or sophomores! Who can refer students?Anyone can refer a student to PLU, and we strongly encourage that. Only students submitted by a graduate of the college will be eligible for the Alumni Referral Scholarship. What if a student is referred by multiple alumni?Hopefully that means many people have spotted a Lute in the making! That student’s Alumni Referral Scholarship would bear multiple names to honor

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care and, honestly, through their simple basic Luteness . Some of those world-changing improvements are subtly meaningful; others reverberate across a community, a country and even a planet. From Tacoma education pioneer Willie Stewart ’69 to Android co-founder Nick Sears ’87, ’95 and from Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden ’83 to Metropolitan Opera superstar Angela Meade ’01 , Lutes are making big differences and creating legacies that command large-scale attention. Office of Alumni & Constituent