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, Gavidia gained his first experience in technology at Pierce County as a Software Development Intern. “I worked as part of the I.T. department, and I got to work with a lot of front-end and back-end technologies.” During the summer following his sophomore year, Gavidia interned at Amazon on the Alexa Notifications team. He contributed to a project involving cutting-edge facial recognition technologies. “It was a complicated project but it was very rewarding, too.” Gavidia says. During the fall of his
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McGrath, Miramax Films, 1996. Read Next Baby, It’s Cold Inside: McGrath’s Family Warmth and de Wilde’s Chilling Christmas Dinner LATEST POSTS Childlike vs Childish: Mary’s Meme-ification December 4, 2022 “You assume just because I hate something I don’t want to do it?” September 12, 2022 Carrie Cracknell’s Anne Elliot is a Girl with a Rabbit September 5, 2022 (Not) Persuadable: The Discourse About Persuasion August 29, 2022
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of Captain Cook and western colonizers, the once prevalent cultivation of kalo dwindled dangerously while Native Hawaiʻians were killed by Western diseases and their land was stolen and repurposed. Sharing Passion through ScholarshipEnvironmental Ethics at Holden Village Read Previous Revisiting the Visiting Writer Series: the 15th Anniversary Edition Read Next Environmental Ethics at Holden Village LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in
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journalist -essayist Martin Jacques (pronounced “Jakes”) decided to take a look at what the world might look like under the influence of the Middle Kingdom. “I think we in the West have always believed that as China modernized, that it would Westernize..the would become clones of us,” said Jacques in an interview from his London home. On May 11 at Chris Knutzen Hall in the University Center, Jacques, an award-winning journalist, will talk about his far-reaching and original investigation which culminated
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Campus Life at PLU Posted by: vcraker / May 27, 2021 May 27, 2021 Get a glimpse of what life is like as a Lute! From athletics to arts, from leadership and service to just having a good time, from hanging out in the residence halls to exploring the Pacific Northwest, PLU students are engaged and involved. Read Previous How to be a Lute: Let’s get food Read Next PLU Student Named West Region Track Athlete of the Year LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24
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studying forced migration at Oxford University. Oxford’s tutorial system required her to do all of the reading—such as 10 academic articles on the topic—outside class, then meet with a doctoral student for discussion. “Being in a different country and educational system, you’re forced to learn in a new way,” she says. “And you can’t learn that unless you live it.”Making the best of PLU's offeringsFor new PLU students, she recommends taking advantage of a professor’s office hours. Two professors have
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September 6, 2012 International Honors at PLU Kyle Schroeder lives in the International Honors wing of Hong International Hall. He says that IHON challenges him to think in a different manner. Four first-year students discuss PLU’s honors program By Steve Hansen Ask four first-year students from different backgrounds and hometowns – each with different major and career goals – about what they expect from their PLU education and you’re bound to get different answers. But on one subject, they
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Public Health Concerns and PLU Community Updates Posted by: Student Life / July 29, 2022 July 29, 2022 Dear PLU Community, As we continue to engage in the long game of responding as a community to multiple coexisting public health concerns, I am writing to update you on two specific concerns that may be on your mind: COVID-19 variants and the emergence of monkeypox in Washington State. First, I’ll provide some reminders and information about current COVID-19 protocols on campus, and then I’ll
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direction and after-graduation plans to work as an emergency room scribe to ensure medicine was a good fit. After working as an ER scribe for a year, Arnits headed to medical school in Yakima at Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences to study osteopathic medicine, followed by a residency in Michigan at Spectrum Health Lakeland. His wife Hadley, who he met at PLU, accompanied him and worked in insurance while he attended medical school. Now 34, Arnits works as assistant director of the emergency
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professors well here. This helps so much during your first years, because often just a simply question or comment from them—often at a crucial moment in your program—can make all the difference. I’ve benefited a lot from the give-and-take of the PLU experience, especially in the individualized major that we created to pursue my career goals.” Marc: “Also, the study abroad programs organized through PLU are very rich. I’ve been able to study in Oxford, England, through our International Honors program at
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