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accolades, Hrabowski was named by President Obama to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans in 2012. U.S. News & World Report named him one of “America’s Best Leaders,” and ranked UMBC the nation’s No. 1 “Up and Coming” university for six years (2009-14). Among its other honors from the publication, UMBC earned top-10 recognition for “most innovative” universities (2015-17) and was among the nation’s leading institutions for “Best Undergraduate Teaching
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meaningful conversations about their responsibilities in preventing and appropriately addressing these issues. This event, “An Evening with Sarah Klein,” will help PLU graduates better understand themselves, their relationships and their future professional roles. Klein connected with Kinesiology Professor and six-time Olympic Mental Skills Coach, Dr. Colleen Hacker, when they both spoke at the ESPN Women’s Sport Summit in 2018. “Sarah is an amazing person, tireless advocate, and powerful legal voice for
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him. Even when, as a second-year Lute, it led him to rethink plans to follow his parents into medicine and toward a major in communication. Even when it nudged him out of a burgeoning early career in public relations and into the world of corporate internal communications.Zeebuyth’s curiosity eventually led him to join the communications team at Starbucks, where he served in six different roles over a 10-year span, starting as a project manager and departing as a director of communications. It’s
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six LGBTQ students on campus, as well as several coming out scenes in popular TV series from the last couple years (for example “Heartstopper,” “Queer as Folk” and “Sex Education”). In the wake of groundbreaking queer representation on TV, I’m investigating the questions: What’s still missing from the mainstream coming out narrative? And how could these stories be better told to more accurately depict people’s real life experiences? My goal in creating this documentary is to prompt a conversation
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English and political science classes, and those have given her new perspectives. “The GSRS major really gets you in everywhere and gets you to do everything.”Clark is also a recipient of the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship. Known as the Culturally Sustaining STEM (CS-STEM) Teaching Program at PLU, the scholarship is awarded to students of different backgrounds in their senior and graduate years who want to teach STEM subjects. “There are six of us, two undergrads and four in the graduate program
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for someone, and make a difference in a middle school kid’s life.” Jackson is in his third year at Pacific Lutheran University. He’s majoring in education and hoping to become a middle school math teacher after obtaining his master’s degree. He’s following a family vocation of sorts. Jackson’s mom was a third grade teacher and currently works as an administrator in Burlington, Wash. In total, six family members are employed as teachers or are in education administration as principals.The PLU
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was where I wanted to be.” Since arriving at PLU in 2019, Harris has not only immersed herself in the on-campus community but has also become a leader and change-maker in Parkland. In addition to being a member of six of PLU’s musical ensembles, as well as three student-led clubs, Harris is also the Student Director of PLU’s Artist Mentoring Program (AMP) and an Assistant Director at the Parkland Literacy Center. The Artist Mentoring Program has been around PLU for some time but fell by the
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to make that jump, just be brave and experience it,” he said. “If there is a place to jump to it is PLU. It is a place that will support you no matter who you are or where you come from.” Read Previous Act Six scholar finds “automatic community” at PLU Read Next Q&A with a PLU Palmer Scholar LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and
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have been identified.” “A comprehensive approach to solving social issues,” Mulder suggested, “can look different depending on the community. Solutions always vary, but what remains consistent are the needs of the community and how important it is to honor the people and allow them to flourish through solutions that are designed, mapped, and executed by the community.” To date, Dr. Mulder has led six global service projects around this theme, working collaboratively to support almost 2,000
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Vines for six hours straight and danced through the halls into the wee hours of the morning. A pivotal moment came early on the third day. After drawing up blueprints for an algorithm—which Matthew said they “lovingly” called the Optimal Node Interconnected Objectives Network, or ONION for short—they waited and watched as the code they had staked their entire paper on refused to run. They put sad music on and took a nap. When they woke, they realized they had enough evidence to continue their
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