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Richter (BS) The Collector is a web application that provides users the ability to track price changes in the user’s Magic the Gathering card collection. By tracking price fluctuations of a collection users can make better predictions for future purchases and trades. The Collector web application is hosted on AWS using Docker, Express JS framework, and a MySQL database backend. The front end is built using React JS. The ability to track a user’s card collection will be accessible after a user creates
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The PLU Master of Science in Marketing Analytics (MSMA) is a cutting edge, STEM-designated program offering an innovative analytics degree, specialized in marketing.
. Whether you have an interest in data analytics, market research, creative corporate brand development, or the digital/social marketing world, the MS in Marketing Analytics provides exceptional training for a variety of inspiring career paths. Curriculum HighlightsFully Online or Hybrid format for Career Advancement While Working Full-TimeThe Master of Science in Marketing Analytics (MSMA) at PLU offers flexibility so students can fit their education into their already busy lives while opening the
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 15, 2016)- An anthropology and global studies double major from Kalispell, Montana, Ellie Lapp ’17 is passionate about a wide variety of social justice issues. She’s hopeful that her tenure as president of Associate Students of Pacific Lutheran University (ASPLU) will be…
administrative things that I’m doing now as president, like responding to emails and communicating with donors. I’m also going to be doing a Severtson research grant, which is a social science grant. I’m going to be looking at images used in development organizations’ fundraising materials. Again, that’s quite different from my work as ASPLU president, but it’s still about how we represent people we’re trying to serve and how we do that ethically. What do you plan to do after graduation? I’m not really sure
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Sirine Fodstad spent nearly two decades traveling the world for work. But her story starts and ends in Norway, where she is a global human resources director for the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund.
“employee lifecycle,” encompassing personnel matters from the time a potential hire is thinking about joining the fund to the time that person leaves. She manages everything from recruiting, training and professional development to employee relations, recognition and facility management. Sirine Fodstad '97 speaks at PLU in March 2011, as part of the Executive Leadership Series. “This is an organization that’s growing really quickly because the funds have grown very quickly,” she said. “That means we’re
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(BSCS) BookClub is a web and IOS application that allows for the buying, selling, and trading of textbooks. With an account, users will be able to upload and manage books they have for sale. The Cordova framework on the front end allows for cross-platform development using Angular and Typescript, and efficiently wraps the project in production level builds allowing for code re-use between platforms. The Node.js and Express API written in JavaScript connects to and queries MariaDB, which contains the
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 13, 2016)- Kiana Norman ’17 wears a lot of hats. She’s a singer, an actress and a writer. She’s a student, a sister and a daughter. A future world traveler, online journalist and theater critic, if all goes according to plan. But…
was high functioning and her creativity was limitless. Maintaining emotional stability with medicine is a constant balancing act. But Norman said her diagnosis no longer feels like a death sentence. She hopes to help others see that light at the end of the tunnel, too. Her advice: “Hang in there. It will be better on the other side, no matter what the other side looks like.”Counseling Center offers broad support services to all studentsKim Riano, director of the Health and Counseling centers, said
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Immersive experience in classrooms on the other side of the world teach PLU students how to learn on the fly, one of many skills they bring home with them.
underscored that point: “It forces you to think about how to teach differently.” Going back Sam’s experience in Namibia didn’t end with PLU. He finished his master’s degree in July 2012 and immediately left to do Peace Corps work in Aranos, Namibia, about four hours away from where the couple originally studied. He split his time between two host families and taught science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), as well as robotics for grades 8-12. “They really wanted me to push STEM,” he said
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Keven Drews’ doctor told him he was out of options in his longtime fight for his life. So, he launched a crowdfunding campaign to earn $500,000 for a clinical trial at Fred Hutchinson Cancer
life on social media, most of Drews’ days are spent at home with his children. For Yvette Drews, the possibility of losing Keven with kids in the picture has made this recent development frightening. “It has made everything get really real – really quickly,” Yvette Drews said. “It is scary to think about what the future could be, raising two children, one on the autism spectrum, by myself.” But hope is not lost, just pricey. “Until now, the system up here works generally by you walking into a
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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.
force in the United Kingdom. The interaction epitomizes the goal of the program at Bjørknes: to put local practitioners in front of the students and draw connections across borders. “Everything feels so relevant,” Corinne Donohue-Mercie ’20 said of the curriculum. Next up, the students headed to an informal brown-bag seminar ― a theoretical debate between faculty members. Students lounged on orange couches, some snacking on their lunches, as their professors pitted optimism against pessimism
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2016)- Senior Tyler Dobies and first-year Caitlin Johnston say spring break changed their lives. While some Pacific Lutheran University students may have gone on vacation or had fun in the sun, other Lutes – like Johnston and Dobies – were busy…
valuable spring break experience that opened his eyes and shifted his perspective. Now, upon returning to PLU, he brings that perspective with him. “After witnessing these different sorts of case studies, I am now able to reflect back on how Tacoma and Parkland were created,” Dobies said, “how certain vices have played out in the development of where we live.” Megan Grover, manager of short-term study away programs, said this alternative spring break is just one of the many ways Lutes can study away
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