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By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org…
important social impact. Social innovation At PLU, we’ve been studying social innovation all year in our new Innovation Studies program. As part of our work, we invited Alice Steinglass to share her organization’s strategy during this year’s Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. Steinglass participated in a workshop on teaching computer science in local schools (with Heavenly Cole and Laurie Murphy), and she delivered an exciting evening talk for about 180-students, faculty, and alumni
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102 Elementary Spanish - GE HISP 103 Accelerated Elementary Spanish - GE HISP 201 Intermediate Spanish - VW, GE HISP 202 Intermediate Spanish - VW, GE HISP 231 Intensive Spanish (Study Away) - VW, GE HISP 252 Spanish for Heritage Speakers - VW, GE HISP 301 Hispanic Voices for Social Change - VW, GE HISP 321 Iberian Cultural Studies - VW, GE HISP 322 Latin American Cultural Studies - VW, GE HISP 325 Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies - IT, GE HISP 331 Intensive Spanish (Study Away) - VW, GE
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Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science news for Pacific Lutheran University.
Celebrate Computer Science Education Week By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science
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After a rare heart condition cut her soccer career short, Shelby Daly ’13 found her calling as an athletic trainer.
continued her research during her graduate studies at Cal Baptist. In 2014, at the Far West Athletic Trainers’ Association Conference in Las Vegas, she won the research presentation award for her poster titled “Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia Treatment and Management: A Case Report.” Crushing as her diagnosis was, Daly has learned to cope with its ramifications. And her blossoming career as a certified athletic trainer shows she’s pretty good at caring for others, too. She hopes to continue
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Globally, Pacific Lutheran University alumni come face to face with the international conflicts that are defining the modern era. Some by accident, others by choice.
Desert Storm, the conflict in the Balkans and Operation Iraqi Freedom — a seasoned officer who talked with the authority of experience. “What I learned from her about being a leader, taking care of people,” Calata said, “that’s something I’ve always kept.” As he shifted gears from nursing, Calata turned to political science. Through those studies he met Professor Ann Kelleher. She had a reputation as a tough instructor and, like Boice, had real-world experience with war and diplomacy. “She really
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cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, dealing with society, culture and social thought as well as humanity vs. nonhumans. His first book, Signposts of Self-Realization: Evolution, Sociality and Ethics in Chinese Literary Modernism, was published by Brill, Netherlands in March 2014. Since 2005, he has intensely engaged in research on cultural geography, nature writing and ecocriticism in China and the West. Currently, he is completing two book projects: he is finishing a single-author book entitled
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, fertility, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to socio-cultural values and norms in rural Bangladesh. Her study results have been published in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies (2000) and the Journal of International Women’s Studies (2004). She also conducted research on the inter-generational family relationships of Germans and Turkish immigrants living in Germany. Some of the conclusions from this research have been published in
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2016)- Senior Tyler Dobies and first-year Caitlin Johnston say spring break changed their lives. While some Pacific Lutheran University students may have gone on vacation or had fun in the sun, other Lutes – like Johnston and Dobies – were busy…
valuable spring break experience that opened his eyes and shifted his perspective. Now, upon returning to PLU, he brings that perspective with him. “After witnessing these different sorts of case studies, I am now able to reflect back on how Tacoma and Parkland were created,” Dobies said, “how certain vices have played out in the development of where we live.” Megan Grover, manager of short-term study away programs, said this alternative spring break is just one of the many ways Lutes can study away
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Location: Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts 9:55 - 11:40 a.m. | Alumni Stories on the Experience of Being Refugees, Adoptees and Undocumented Alumni Panel: David Akuien ’10, Wendy Martinez ’14 and Jacob Taylor ’09 Moderated by Carmiña Palerm, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Director of the PLU International Honors Program Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center 11:50 a.m. - 1:35 p.m. | The Art and Science of Human Migration Speaker: Elizabeth Fussell, Associate Professor of
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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 4, 2016)- Kamari Sharpley-Ragin reluctantly admits that he used to joke about racism. The ninth-grader from Lincoln High School in Tacoma says it didn’t seem like a big deal, since he never really experienced overt discrimination himself. Now, he says he knows…
different standards than their white peers and being treated as though they don’t speak English well based on their race. CURTAIN CALL Maria Cruse, another senior teaching assistant majoring in women’s and gender studies, said the J-Term course was “an act of service,” not just a standard learning opportunity. “I enjoy being a social justice educator,” Cruse said. “This was another platform to do that.” Many of the students were eager to tell their stories, she said. They did so in front of a crowd on
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