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TACOMA, WASH. (March 9, 2016)- Mosquitoes are pests to some, but for 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…
vocation in public health. “It’s easy to get lost in numbers and statistics,” she said. “Having had that encouragement at PLU to think about social justice and environmental concerns helps humanize the numbers.” Blakney long assumed she would go to medical school. But after a study abroad experience in Panama and Costa Rica, she realized she wanted to make a difference on a larger scale. “It made me realize I’m more interested in medicine on a population level,” said Blakney, a former cross-country
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By Damian Alessandro, ’19 At Pacific Lutheran University, we’re pretty excited about innovation. Over the past few months, my colleague Sarah Cornell-Maier and I have been writing about several types of innovation that we see in the workplace and in our curriculum. This week, I…
practice. I also took Dr. Brown for an introductory course in the Innovation Studies minor, BUSA 201: Introduction to Business in the Global Environment. Innovation Beyond Invention “Business have the potential to do more,” says Dr. Brown, “if they can get past the idea that they need to invent new technology.” For many of us, the first thing we think about when we hear innovation is cutting edge technology, much like those in my last post about the Edison Awards. However, businesses don’t need to
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Jacob Taylor-Mosquera ’09 was 18 when he returned to Colombia. Although he considered it a homecoming, it took several more visits for him to truly feel at home.
himself of the generational poverty and lack of educational opportunities he’d witnessed during his sojourns back to Colombia. “I would say to myself ‘if they are in the kind of situation they are, and I get to be here, then I really need to get it together.’” Eventually, an introductory Hispanic literary studies course — taught by Carmiña Palerm, associate professor of Hispanic studies — eliminated his indecision, and Taylor-Mosquera was back on track. “It was all about Latin American history and had
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 20, 2016)- It’s the season for awards, banquets, recognition and a whole lot of celebrating for Pacific Lutheran University students as they approach Commencement 2016. The ceremony will mark the culmination of several years of hard work, community involvement and the pursuit…
statistics division. “I grew up watching the ‘FBI’s Most Wanted,’ and by going to school I found that there is a mathematical connection to all that,” Hoagland said. Hoagland’s senior capstone project focused on FBI crime statistics using information collected throughout the past 30 years. His project, titled “How Victim Offender Relationship Correlates with Weapon Use and Homicides,” examined trends in homicides and murder circumstances. “I’m not going to be the guy on ‘FBI’s Most Wanted’ talking about
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TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 20, 2015)- Thomas Kim ‘15 is passionate about “Justice.” So passionate, in fact, that he likes to really emphasize the word by treating it as a proper noun. His passion doesn’t include just capitalizing Js, however: he’s walking his talk (and type)…
school plan was to work full-time at a teriyaki restaurant… It wasn’t until my good friend Taryn Dee ’16 told me about PLU that I even applied. PLU decided to invest a full-tuition Regents Scholarship in me. In May of 2015, I graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in mathematical economics, Bachelors of Science in psychology and a minor in statistics. I now am a Juris Doctorate candidate at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Why did you decide to attend law school? Not being
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Thomas Kim checks all the “American” boxes. Except for one: actually being a legal citizen.
psychology and a minor in statistics. Currently, he is in his third year at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law School at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ. Thomas Kim '15 “PLU really set things well for me,” Kim said. But the college path was not easy for Kim. His family emigrated from South Korea in 2005 and entered the United States on a year-long visitor visa. His parents bought a dry cleaning business south of Portland, Oregon, and hired a lawyer to help them get green cards. That lawyer
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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…
concerns for the first time during an already difficult period of transition. Amid those staggering statistics, Riano said she wishes the Counseling Center was used more broadly by students at PLU. She urges all students, with struggles of varying degrees, to use the valuable resource. Counselors are available to listen and address chronic mental illness, while a campus psychiatrist provides medication management. “There’s no way that somebody is going to get through four years of college without being
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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.
space for them to move upward,” Reinhardt said. “That’s the main goal of this program, to provide students insights into those challenges that alpine areas are facing.” And the environment mirrors that of the Pacific Northwest, meaning students can often apply what they learn in Norway back home. “Some people think it’s too small, but I love it,” Kristi Floyd ’19 said of the town. “There are always things you can do.”Reinhardt stressed the program isn’t for the faint of heart. The introductory trip
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For some, summer is a time for play. For others, it’s a time for work. But for many at PLU, it’s a time for a little bit of both — through science.
that will take huge amounts of data on protein sequences and produce conclusions, notice patterns and speed up analysis for scientists to use. It is a little bit of biology, statistics, mathematics and computer science. One application of this research is more efficient pharmaceutical drug design. “This is the first time at PLU that computer science has attempted this kind of research,” Cao said. “It is very new and the experience can be used for other students later.” The research is so cutting
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