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students as both their capstone class and their practicums moved online in response to the coronavirus pandemic. As you’ll see by reading the abstracts below, they rose to meet this challenge, with the help of their superb capstone instructor, Professor Nancy Simpson-Younger. These students developed fascinating projects on a wide range of topics–many of them relevant to the careers they will pursue after graduation. We are exceptionally proud of these students and the fascinating work they have done
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me never to cede one centimeter of what I perceive as just and morally correct. This was the worst part of my experience because it forced me to begin to shed the innocent skin of my privileged upbringing and, I must admit, naïve and misguided perception of the world. However, realizing these difficult lessons was the catalyst to understanding how vital quality education is and how transformative it can (and should!) be. I credit Oaxaca with planting the seed for my pursuit of intellectual growth
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Thurston Counties receive an excellent and equitable education.That birthday gift, Hall says, is the gift that keeps on giving. She feels privileged to work with a talented team of communicators. “I have loved watching the communications team blossom and grow,” she says. She’s had a variety of roles supporting internal and external communications needs, including web design, graphic design, social media and web and document accessibility projects. Most recently, she has worked as a communications
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authors like Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde. Einan worked with Associate Professor of English Adela Ramos on projects about books by Jane Austen. Einan and Ramos worked on online posts reviewing Jane Austen themed adaptations, merchandise, games and spin-off books. Einan recently completed her capstone about female mobility in Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Ramos remembers meeting Einan for the first time in her Jane Austen Communities class. “She was sitting in the front row, pen in hand, notebook out
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system is a group of people united through rowing, who help each other be better people through sport. How did your team engage with the community this year? We have not done any full team volunteer or community service projects this year. We have however become involved with Tacoma Rowing, a new program in Tacoma which is directing their efforts to get kids of underrepresented communities into boats. We have helped provide equipment, support and anything that can help best fit their needs. Looking
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plants from the Pacific Northwest and beyond, there are dried mosses, liverworts, lichen and fungi. Other collections reflect former personal research projects (western Washington Poaceae), travels abroad (Malaysia), and collections made closer to home (Arizona, for example). Washington coast red and brown algae are also represented in the collection. The contents of the Irene Creso Herbarium have been documented and uploaded to an online database, the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria. To
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. and abroad, Lovrovich said she hopes the series encourages meaningful conversations about diversity and difference. “Just like we did through the process of making the series,” Lovrovich said, “we hope everyone will gain a better understanding of the meaning of diversity and the varying ways in which it is valued and discussed.” Lovrovich added that, like many past MediaLab projects, the ultimate goal is to spark conversations well beyond the Pacific Northwest. “We hope that our audience will not
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to use to understand the compassion and empathy that should be behind every project. I am looking forward to utilizing these skills in future endeavors, especially in tech design projects.” Megan Goninan has earned a B.F.A in Studio Arts with a concentration in Graphic Design, along with a supporting minor in Innovation Studies. Megan was part of the original cohort of Innovation Studies students, and designed several beautiful posters for the Innovation Studies program. (Thanks, Megan
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opportunities for capstone projects,” she added. This J-Term, however, two productions are in the works that provide four students the opportunity to direct and dozens more the chance to participate in other aspects of the theater. PLU’s chapter of Alpha Psi Omega (APO) is funding one show, while the other is being supported by the new club, Vpstart Crow (pronounced Upstart Crow). For more than a decade, APO, the national theater honor society, has funded at least one student-produced main stage show each
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September 29, 2008 Documentary follows drug, weapons trade When assistant communication professor Rob Wells and his colleagues in the School of Arts and Communication launched MediaLab in 2006, they figured larger projects like feature-length video documentaries would happen sometime in the future. “It would be nice,” he recalled thinking. “Someday.”Thanks to some tireless – and inquisitive – student journalists, that “someday” happened much sooner than anyone might have expected. At 2 p.m
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