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Next The Head in the Game: Q&A with PLU Coach Goes Inside the Mind of an Athlete LATEST POSTS Unlocking Full-Ride and Full-Tuition Scholarships at PLU July 31, 2024 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 social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024
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the U.S., I knew it was coming,” said Grahe. He had three other research projects in mind but when COVID hit, but the decision to shift his research priorities was an easy one. “It was clear that this was more important,” he said.Grahe reached out to a colleague in Australia and learned of a researcher who was conducting a survey to measure health attitudes in response to the virus just before it became a pandemic. Both Grahe and Cook used that survey as their starting points. Grahe and his
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all started in spring of 1974. As a young composing student she was assigned to be the student guide for Krystof Penderecki, a Polish composer whose piece was being performed by the University Symphony Orchestra. Though McTee was unaware of it at the time, her time with Penderecki would dramatically shape her future career as a composer. “Penderecki realized (as had we all) the special qualities of mind and person which McTee possessed, even at a relatively tender age,” Dave Robbins explains, who
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, 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 social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024
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those vital bonding moments with her students digitally. Snickerdoodle the cat Teaching During a Global PandemicSustainability in Monastic Communities Read Previous “All Tradition is Change”: Redefining Community in the SCC Read Next The Two Desks LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022
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Special Topics in Chinese Literature in the spring. By the time PLU closes out the 2019-2020 school year, Zhu will be wrapping up his dissertation. Though he is bound to become a doctor, his heart as a student of knowledge and truth will remain unchanged. Opening Crazy WorldsA Passion for the Classics Read Previous “Opening Crazy Worlds”: Learning about Language with Professor René Carrasco Read Next A Passion for the Classics with Professor Luke Parker LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022
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Clarissa Gines ’12 combines her passions for art and community working for Tacoma Creates Posted by: Zach Powers / July 5, 2022 Image: Clarissa Gines in front of some of her favorite murals in downtown Tacoma (above and below). (Photos by Silong Chhun/PLU) July 5, 2022 By Lora ShinnPLU Marketing & Communications Guest WriterClarissa Gines was one of the first students to graduate with PLU's art history undergraduate degree in 2012. It wasn't easy—she had a child during her senior year, and
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PLU alum returns to Namibia to research infections and teach marimba Posted by: vcraker / November 17, 2022 November 17, 2022 Biology major Elizabeth Larios ’21 was awarded a Fullbright scholarship for her work in Namibia. When she was in fourth grade, Larios wanted to be a neurosurgeon. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about the human brain. Returning home that day, she told her mom: “I’m going to be a neurosurgeon!” In the following years
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Major Minute: Brian Galante on Music Posted by: vcraker / January 13, 2022 January 13, 2022 The PLU Department of Music is a nationally-recognized center for music education and performance in which you’ll experience an incredible array of musical styles and media. Our graduates are accepted into the most prestigious graduate programs in the country and enjoy successful careers in major performance venues, teach at other universities, and serve in arts administration roles across the nation
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his death in 2016, Professor Minsky worked on the faculty at MIT in the emerging field of artificial intelligence research. When I met Minsky, he was publishing a new edition of his important book The Society of Mind (1988) with a team that I was working with at Microsoft Press. I became captivated by Minsky’s vision of the future in which AI would revolutionize cognitive science, computing, communication, philosophy and other disciplines. As the field of AI evolved, it became a truly
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