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Cara Gillespie ’17: BA in Communication, Minor in Religion “Since graduation I’ve been in a period of transition. I’ve officially been invited to serve with the Peace Corps in Peru as a Business Advising Volunteer. I leave for Lima in March 2018. In the meantime, I am spending time with my family and working as a bartender saving money to prepare for my two years of volunteer service, as well as, brushing up on my Spanish in my free time. I am so grateful for my time at PLU and know that my
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most recently the National Endowment for the Arts. Prof. Call ties her passion for writing to her experiences as a reader: “I was an early reader, so I have only a few memories of my life before books. In the strongest memory—no doubt reinforced by a family snapshot of me holding a newspaper upside down, with stuffed animals lined up beside me—I am looking at the columns of words on the enormous pages that so fascinated my father, wishing desperately that I could decode them. As a child I dreamed
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2023 Computer Science Capstone SymposiumThe Computer Science Department senior capstone presentations will take place Saturday, May 6th. If you’d like to join the capstone Zoom session, please email Assistant Professor Jeff Caley at caleyjb@plu.edu. Saturday, May 6th9:30am – Ray Tracer Hongsen Zhao (BS) Ray tracing is a widely used rendering technique for generating realistic images by simulating the behavior of light in virtual scenes. In this project, we focus on enhancing the quality of
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by it, functions best on a campus where teaching and learning is held in high regard. In such a setting, assessment assists faculty in supporting a shared vision of education, and in meeting deeper responsibilities and obligations to our students, to our stakeholders and to the public.1. Learning is a complex process.Assessment is effective when it recognizes and accounts for the complexity of the teaching and learning process. Learning is multidimensional, and assessment should be as well. In
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Roman Catholic church. Maybe we shouldn’t spotlight a Catholic text in our magazine? Or, you might think not because our first name signals our location in the Pacific Northwest, the “None Zone” with the lowest affiliation to organized religion in the nation. Many of our students, staff and alumni belong to no faith tradition, and many others come from a diverse range of faiths. Perhaps we shouldn’t feature any religious text? On the other hand, PLU is a university, called to study and understand
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partly defined by separation from the Roman Catholic church. Maybe we shouldn’t spotlight a Catholic text in our magazine? Or, you might think not because our first name signals our location in the Pacific Northwest, the “None Zone” with the lowest affiliation to organized religion in the nation. Many of our students, staff and alumni belong to no faith tradition, and many others come from a diverse range of faiths. Perhaps we shouldn’t feature any religious text? On the other hand, PLU is a
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Student ResourcesGender, Sexuality, and Race Studies students pursue careers in law, advocacy, counseling, education, international policy, health, politics, psychology, social work, sociology, public administration, and history–among many others. Click on the links below to read what graduates from our program have to say about how their degrees prepared them for their careers! (Note that the GSRS Program was the Women’s and Gender Studies (WMGS) Program through the end of Spring 2020.) By
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internship/industry experience and/or courses in business, economics, history and ethics. “Project-based learning is a different kind of learning than in-class learning and adds a different kind of value to a student’s degree,” said Bogomil Gerganov, associate professor of physics. “Internships and apprenticeships are extremely valuable training for future engineers, and students with such experience are more attractive job and graduate school candidates.” To fulfill the engineering internship/industry
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, public finance, logic, and moral philosophy. Diversity and challenge are crucial to preparation for the study of law. However, pre-law students are also advised to take courses, chosen in consultation with the pre-law advisor, that will help them to identify, develop, and explore perspectives on the character of U.S. law. Courses in U.S. government and history, judicial and legislative processes, research materials and methods, and internships may be particularly useful in this regard. Finally
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StilesChloe WilhelmDanielle Lisk``The Impact of Presidential Campaign Visits on Election Outcomes``PresentationAlec Miller``Localization of the agri-food industry a solution?``PresentationSierra Miller``District 26: Using Data to Create a Campaign Strategy``PresentationAndrew Northam``The Potential Political Effects of Biased Teaching in Social Studies and History``PresentationKeon Payne & Logan Berghoefer``Electronic Voting Methods``PresentationAaron Ristau``Capstone: Environmental Lobbying
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