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  • honored and so humbled to receive this award,” Deines said. “I burst into tears when I found out.” Master of Science in FinanceLearn more about Pacific Lutheran University's program. Deines was busy during her accelerated 10-month MSF program at PLU. She worked part time at Avier Wealth Advisors in Bellevue. She also participated in various student competitions throughout the region, in which she had the opportunity to practice managing a six-figure investment fund as part of a research challenge with

  • company that does research for the U.S. Postal Service. The email asked if the image would be available for licensing on a stamp and sought verification that it was pure, void of any major manipulation. “A couple days later, there was a mockup of the stamp,” Ebi said, adding that the mockup came along with a 12-page contract and a vow of secrecy. The stamp licensing process is very secretive, he noted; Ebi couldn’t talk about the achievement until April of this year — nine months after he was

  • Understanding and Healing Maureen Hetherington, Founder and Director, The Junction community and peace-building center in Derry, Northern Ireland Introduction by Anna Leon-Guerrero, Professor of Sociology Location: Zoom 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. | Break 11:15 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. | Humanizing Deportation: Research and Care in the Herida Abierta Speaker: Robert McKee Irwin, Professor of Spanish at UC Davis Introduction by Emily Davidson, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies Location: Zoom 12:30 - 1:35

  • at Harrah’s in Las Vegas. “I’ve dedicated my life to the arts and giving artists, entertainers and performers a voice, and an opportunity to do their work,” Hobson said. “It’s been a crazy wild ride and I’ve racked up hundreds of thousands of airline miles.” Hobson’s days are filled with endless emails and phone calls as he works to develop shows for certain markets and audience venues. “We research what the audience is going to love,” he said. Despite his busy schedule running a production

  • millions of dollars worth of research and prevention programs throughout the world. The list of such new “global health” projects goes on and on, with new ones coming on line all the time. But success always brings with it the seeds of failure. There are lots of reasons why these attempts to improve the health of the world’s poorest might fail. There are just as many reasons to hope they succeed, if only because failure on this front would be to accept ongoing tragedy and disenfranchisement for one

  • . My PLU experience: My time at PLU has been an incredible journey. I’ve been challenged in so many ways and also rewarded for my hard work. PLU has provided me with so many wonderful opportunities, for which I am so grateful. In the last four years, I have visited three different countries, conducted research in two different tropical rain forests, written countless papers, and made some of the best friends a person could ask for. All these experiences have helped me flourish and grow into the

  • established pathways to distinction, purposeful learning and global education — and will expand upon student-faculty research to be restated as faculty-student mentoring. Faculty-student mentoring includes direct mentoring, project work and experiential learning in addition to faculty-student research. Undergraduate programs We will actively work to stabilize undergraduate enrollment as called for in the strategic enrollment management plan while remaining fully committed to education excellence. Through

  • of full academic freedom that is essential to teaching and to research. Academic freedom implies fundamental protection of the rights of faculty in teaching and of students to freedom in learning. Freedom in research is fundamental to the advancement of truth. As an institution firmly grounded in the tradition of Lutheran higher education, Pacific Lutheran University upholds these Principles of Academic Freedom for all faculty: Faculty are entitled to full freedom in research and in the

  • at PLU. We are having great conversations about the issues that are important to you. Issues like climate change issues like racial justice and we’re doing so in our small class sizes where you get to know your peers and you get to know your professors. You not only work with them on classwork but you work with them on really interesting research projects and present at conferences throughout the country and perhaps even internationally. There are opportunities to study away there are

  • , business, marketing, etc.), needs skilled interpreters of that massive amount of valuable data available in order to promote progress.  Tip: Interested in securing a marketing analytics career? Download PLU’s digital resource: Building a Career in a Data-Driven Age — A Guide to a Master’s in Marketing Analytics. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the demand for market research analysts is expected to grow by 20% by 2028, a rate of growth much higher than the average for all occupations. The