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  • Rebekah Blakney ’12 they carry a wealth of information that can unlock solutions to global health issues. Now with the outbreak of the Zika virus, that’s as important as ever. Blakney isn’t at the forefront of Zika research, at least yet, but she’s contributing to work that aims to educate and inform people about infectious diseases. The third-generation Pacific Lutheran University graduate conducts backyard surveillance of mosquitoes in Atlanta, where she works as a field manager at Emory University

  • Davis, a FabLab co-founder who graduated from PLU with a degree in business management and marketing in 2006. “We provide the tools, we provide the knowledge, and we provide some of the resources to get ideas up and off the ground.” Makerspaces aren’t new to the do-it- yourself landscape. But the for-profit approach employed by FabLab is young, Davis says. Typically, makerspaces have been affiliated with universities and libraries. FabLab is membership-based. Users pay a monthly fee to use the

  • pre-arranged group flight (typical for short-term faculty-led, but very rare for semester programs), you are responsible for locating and booking your own flight, and for arriving by the date required by the program (includes orientation). It may be a good idea to collaborate with other students participating in your program to plan your travel arrangements together. The Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education strongly recommends that you DO NOT book your flight until you have been

  • DECADescription: PLU DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs, no matter the major! We look to apply our learning, connect to business, and promote competition and community involvement. We develop PLU students’ through our competitive team and professional development events that improve your interpersonal/soft skills in the workforce. The team welcomes all students to compete in the five offered business event categories: marketing, finance (including accounting), hospitality, management, and

  • information about living situations to aid in the ease of house management. A house is a group of people that co-join and track their shared activities. This web application allows for tracking weekly chores, reservations of communal spaces, and creation of tasks.Saturday, May 6th9:00am – Fantasy Sports Website Juston Lind (BACS), Kelly White (BACS)  We have created a web application for fantasy sports that uses MongoDB on the back-end to store user, player, and game data. Users can play either fantasy

  • another course to count as their Domain-Specific Elective using the form given in the Documents Section of this site.  BUSA 310: Information Systems and Database Management (4) BUSA 467: Marketing Research (4) COMA 342: Applied Research (4) COMA 461: Advertising, PR + Campaigns (4) Selected CSCI 387/388/389/487/488/489: Special Topics in CSCI Courses (4) ECON 344: Econometrics (4) GEOS ESCI 331: Maps: Computer-Aided Mapping and Analysis (4) NURT 318: Research Methods (2) with NURT 319: Healthcare

  • courses. The SVD allows you to decompose a rectangular matrix into component matrices, unlike spectral decomposition (or eigendecomposition) which can only be applied to square matrices. The component matrices provide interesting and important information about the original matrix, which is why the SVD has many applications, including its use in principal component analysis. 2:30-2:55pm – Hedging: A Method of Financial Risk Management Alex Ellis Investors spend money with the hopes of making a profit

  • he’d be able to engage his passion so completely.“It’s been a lot of time and energy, but its also been really rewarding,” Ojala-Barbour said. Someday, he hopes to combine the land management skills he’s learned outside of the classroom, with what he’s learned inside the classroom, and work to better preserve what native land remains. This fall, Ojala-Barbour will be in Ecuador, as a Fulbright Fellow, studying small mammals and the environmental impacts on them. He calls it another chance to get

  • Scandinavian studies from PLU in 1982. Then, she eventually earned a master’s degree in archives and record management from the University of Washington in 1987. In her time as archivist, Ringdahl was responsible for massive amounts of cataloguing and collecting university history. She started the Scandinavian Immigrant Collection, which includes pictures, artifacts and interviews from 280 Scandinavian immigrants. Ringdahl also was an early member of Northwest Digital Archives, partnering PLU with larger

  • should meet with professors at the beginning of the semester to discuss accommodations and the test schedule for each course. Maintain a positive attitude and a vision of the goal (program completion and first-time success on the NCLEX) Maintain personal wellness through healthy eating, adequate sleep, physical activity, healthy and responsible social activities Engage in anxiety control and stress reduction/management strategies as necessary before and during tests (centering, guided imagery