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, mentoring support, and an applied project, M.S. candidates develop the knowledge and skills they need to become effective evidence-based practitioners who can enhance their own career while positively impacting those they serve.You can request more information or start your application today. We look forward to helping you achieve your career goals.Download PLU’s digital resource: The Science of Human Activity – A Guide to a Master’s Degree in Kinesiology.Request InformationContact us to get more
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most creative times.” Duffy, Madeline and Matthew competed in 2022 as well, solving a problem on asteroid mining, an experience which set them up to assist associate professor of mathematics Mei Zhu in running the workshop that prepares students for the annual competition in February. Zhu has taught the J-term class on overload for almost twenty years. Before PLU had a BS in Applied Mathematics, it was one of the few opportunities for students interested in applying math skills to real-world
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school,” she said. “I was interested in medicine and disease and I still am, but I found a different route to that interest. “I’ve been really happy about my decision to come to PLU for that very reason,” she said. What happens when you think you’ve got the skills to be a doctor, then you find that it is your PASSION? Andrew Reyna ’11 Can Tell You. Read Previous Bank president shares PLU experience Read Next Lute enters Folgers jingle contest and wins COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the
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our faculty so we can help our students ask questions of meaning and purpose, to develop our skills to mentor students,” Hunnicutt said. “That’s what sets this university apart.” The result has been a successful integration of these questions of meaning and purpose campuswide – in the classrooms, in student orientation, in career and academic advising, in residential life – just about everywhere. “The Wild Hope Project and the Center for Vocation are places at PLU where we can work to make sure we
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July 27, 2012 Tyson Bendzak ’10 clowns around at Nike before leaving for the Olympics in London. Persistence, passion and his skills on a unicycle paid off for the alum, who majored in physical education.(Photo provided by Tyson Bendzak) Focus, persistence land alum at Nike, and this week, at the Olympics in London By Barbara Clements, University Communications A passion for teaching, an interest in Nike and, oh, a unicycle. Who knew this eclectic combo would translate into an airline ticket to
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equipping them with a powerful set of skills and tools from a curriculum designed in collaboration with industry. PLU’s MSF was accepted into the CFA Institutes University Recognized Program in April 2013. PLU’s team started working on its analysis in October after being assigned Zumiez Inc., which sells clothing and gear for skateboarding, snowboarding and surfing (each team is assigned a company whose headquarters is in the same geographic region as the team’s local CFA Society). PLU’s presentation at
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American Council on Education (ACE) program for developing administrative skills, and spent a year as an ACE Fellow at Agnes Scott College. While there, he gained experience and skill in leadership and institutional change, planning, and budget and financial management, which he put to good use at PLU, developing and managing the budget for the Office of the Provost. Bill also served as a project coordinator in the U.S. State Department Bureau of Oceans & International Environmental Affairs, where he
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am going to build peace,” Beiermann said. Beiermann ’18 will join Cate Rush ’19 for a seven-week peacebuilding experience in Norway as part of Pacific Lutheran University’s Peace Scholars Program. They will learn peacebuilding skills and practices at a weeklong workshop in Lillehammer, along with 16 other students from Lutheran universities across the U.S. Then, they will spend six weeks at the International Summer School, part of the University of Oslo, with students from around the world. This
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decades, a majority of his 40-year career in education. He’s been at the district’s helm for 11 years. Beyond his commitment to the partnership with PLU and his full-time administrative work, he serves on the boards of the Junior Achievement of Washington, Latino/a Education Achievement Project, Parkland-Spanaway Kiwanis Foundation, Pierce Center for Arts & Technology and the Pierce County Skills Center. He also is a longtime member of PLU’s Administrative Professional Education Advisory Board and
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,” he said.“Learning about those kinds of things, where science intersects with social factors, was really key there. That’s probably been the main thing across the board for all my environmental classes at PLU: There are intersections between environmental issues and the people living in the surrounding area.” Evanishyn chose English as his other major. He hoped to sharpen his storytelling skills, having long dreamed of writing and producing for television. In 2019, he found an outlet for his
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