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NYT best-selling author Meg Medina to discuss writing about painful experiences for kids at PLU virtual lecture Posted by: bennetrr / February 9, 2021 February 9, 2021 By Rosemary Bennett '21PLU Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University’s eleventh annual Jolita Hylland Benson Education Lecture will be held virtually at 5:30 p.m. on May 5. Meg Medina,, and New York Times best-selling author will deliver this year’s Benson lecture titled “Rough Patch: On Writing About Painful
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For some, summer is a time for play. For others, it’s a time for work. But for many at PLU, it’s a time for a little bit of both — through science.
starts with an algorithm and then learns and adjusts on its own. Machine learning is an integral part of the modern technology world, used by companies such as Facebook and Google — and now, Renzhi Cao’s summer research at PLU. “We want to create a technique, where instead of telling the machine what to do, we want to give the intelligence to the machine,” Cao said. (Video by Rustin Dwyer, PLU) Cao and his team are working on applying machine learning to bioinformatics. They are writing an algorithm
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Simon Sung Executive Creative Director Phone: 253-535-7786 Email: sungsa@plu.edu Status:Working Hybrid Professional Biography Education B.F.A., Graphic Design, University of Washington, 1990 B.A., English, University of Washington, 1990 Biography Simon Sung graduated in 1990 from the University of Washington. During his tenure in the design field he has worked for various clients including Simon and Schuster, Random House, Crown, Disney, Chronicle Books, Starbucks, and the National Baseball
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More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.
students looking at other disciplines. Kelsey Larson ’11 studied English writing and Norwegian at PLU. She says the experience in Telemark improved her language skills and her global perspective, aiding her post-graduate success, including a stint at The Norwegian-American newspaper. “It was intimidating, but I learned a lot,” she said. “I never would have become as advanced if I hadn’t lived there. You just don’t get the same experience taking classes in the states.” VESTFOLD Sitting around a table in
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 6, 2016)-The seventh episode of “Open to Interpretation” features a discussion of the word “failure” among host and Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, Associate Professor of Art and Design Jp Avila , and Assistant Professor of Business Kory Brown . “Open…
perhaps a motif for the movie. Think Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman movie about the book called The Cheese Monkey. Amy Young: The Cheese Monkey. Jp Avila: The Cheese Monkey. Amy Young: Also, it’s a great penname, The Cheese Monkey. Jp Avila: If you do look for it, try to find the hardback version. The paperback version, leaves a lot to be desired. Amy Young: Writing that down. Kory, any book into a movie? Kory Brown: I’m stumped. The first that came to mind were all of the Bourne books that I used
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Arts, the Ragdale Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. His work appears in GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Saveur, and several anthologies. For the past decade, Goodman has directed the undergraduate and graduate creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. During that time he has organized and staged three major literary festivals: Diversity in African American Poetry; Translating Cultures: Latin American and Latina/o Writers Festival; and Miami
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, The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice (coauthored with Martha Silano), Fire on Her Tongue: An Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry, and Demystifying the Manuscript: How to Create of Book of Poems (coauthored with Susan Rich). She lives in a sleepy seaside town where she is an avid paddleboarder and hiker. She teaches at Pacific Lutheran University’s low-res MFA program, the Rainier Writing Workshop. Kelli is the cohost of the poetry series “Poems You Need” with Melissa
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Stan Sanvel Rubin Founding Director Biography Biography Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU. He served for over twenty years as Director of the Brockport Writers Forum and Videotape Library (SUNY), a multi-faceted literary arts program. He holds the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. His most recent book of poetry is There. Here. (Lost Horse Press, 2013). Other books include The Post-Confessionals, a collection of his interviews
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counter-arguments; to gauge level of interest/engagement; to help generate/expand on ideas). provides an opportunity to hear/read other writers’ prose (often the reviewer benefits as much as the writer!). Promoting the Writing Center The main purpose of the Writing Center is to provide the highest quality of peer review. Whether or not you give class time to peer review, we hope you will encourage your students to use our services. Also: Consider placing a statement like the following on your
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Professor Rick Barot discusses being longlisted for the National Book Award and teaching creative writing during a pandemic Rick Barot is a highly acclaimed national figure in poetry whose 2020 collection “The Galleons” was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s also a dedicated creative writing teacher, serving as an English professor at Pacific Lutheran University and the director of the Rainier… December 3, 2020 Research & Academics
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