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Head, Commercial Lifecycle Services, Hewlett-Packard “Innovation is about doing things differently than they have been done before. This can mean using technology to do things cheaper, faster, better, or about using a new mindset to work collaboratively through an inclusive process. We can work toward solving problems from climate change to racial equity if we stop relying on old systems. Innovation allows a new framework to emerge and new voices to be heard.” -Shelly (Cano) Kurtz, ’98 Co-Founder
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Williams, Ph.D., has served as the executive director of the Wang Center for 10 years and was tasked with overseeing the merger process. “First and foremost”, she says, “It should be noted that this merger occurred during the pandemic and that, during this two-year period, not only has the landscape of community engaged learning changed, it also will continue to evolve. Moreover, the pandemic prompted a renewed commitment by PLU to the local community going forward.” Although the center’s scope of
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crafting their thesis. But, I constantly remind them that once they dive into the research process, their questions will more than likely have to change based on their findings. I also remind them to stop and ask themselves with each document they are reading: Who wrote this? Why did they write it? What might have motivated them to write the document in the first place, and what biases might they have held? They are critically important questions if we want to arrive at the truth of a document’s
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Organization (WHO) and United Nations. Peterson and her team help run campaigns, design programs and special projects, and monitor and track global policies. A recent project included work with 11 partner companies to negotiate global incremental, voluntary sodium reduction targets in breakfast cereals. The process took two years of negotiations over targets. After obtaining the agreement, the targets could be presented to the WHO’s director general. The U.S. and the E.U. might develop rules for sodium
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Tips and Tricks for Your Virtual Dance Scholarship Application Posted by: Reesa Nelson / January 15, 2021 January 15, 2021 We’re in a brave new world of all-online scholarship application and adjudication process. Students entering PLU in fall 2021 as a first-year or transfer student with an interest in the Dance minor can still apply for an Artistic Achievement Award in Dance. Read more in this blog post for answers to frequently asked questions.How do I apply? Apply online via Acceptd, a
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, before finding out this process is now completely automated, an apparent trend in newsmaking. I walk into the anchors’ set, expecting makeup artists dusting faces. I’m surprised to find only three broadcasters, who are quickly identifiable by perfect Hollywood smiles. I step out to talk to a technician, who tells me the show is automated by a computer and describes the process using technical language. I nod and pretend to understand, watching a woman enter numbers into spreadsheets between sips of a
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personal mission statement and define my values. It’s a thing I would highly recommend people take the time to do. During that process two things really stand out as motivating me. One is people. I want people to be cared for, respected, and have the opportunity to reach their highest potential. I also really value my relationships with people and those individual relationships motivate me, too. I see my role as trying to connect people and do what I can to remove systematic barriers that prevent them
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; – and what to look for to ensure the credibility of online information. The class culminated in a final “Critical Making” project, where students built, designed, or mocked up a media literacy tool. The goal of the assignment was to envision a web that prioritized the circulation of credible information. Critical making is a process where students apply theories and concepts to a creative project or artifact, and where imaginative design – focusing more on engagement with theory and concepts, rather
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reasons. She had a healthy skepticism of theology, and responded to people as concrete bodies in need of care. The people who came to her door needed food, shelter, and care, and Magda provided it or saw that it was provided by others.4 Like Magda, the pastor’s cousin, Daniel, who came to run one of the many schools in Le Chambon, had a strong aversion to religious dogma and was deeply suspicious of all narrow religious belief. However, he saw in the work at Le Chambon a chance to contribute to the
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experience, Rich is receiving support from professors and students for her independent production. “My research for this included contacting professors and students who have worked on independent shows at PLU, and figuring out how their processes translate to my process,” Rich said. “I’ve gotten a lot of help from people who worked on “Twisted Tales of Poe,” which was produced two years ago.” That support includes Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23, the LASR General Manager, and Mykahla George ’25, the
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