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Travis McDaneld ’23 is entering his fourth year at PLU as an economics major, minoring in data science. When he enrolled at PLU, he had every intention of majoring in business, although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do…
checks within a few of those systems with Structured Query Language (SQL), the database language, and basically, make sure the data is clean, valid, and accurate. If it’s not, I will often have to reach out either interdepartmentally or sometimes to external vendors to figure out why this is happening. That’s generally in the morning, and in the evening, I check data quality and validity in PARis and chase down problems that sometimes arise. What are you enjoying most about this internship? The
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“Our place in this world is to be of service to other people,” notes Eric Watness, a descendant of PLU’s founder and first President, Rev. Bjug Harstad. Bjug is also the namesake of Bjug Day , PLU’s day of giving, which started in 2013 and…
Boldt Decision case, which returned the right for local tribes to fish on their ancestral waters. ” This case touched on racism, environmentalism, and community. It made me see that vocation can be an act of service.” Watness is now an arbitrator and mediator who offers free legal services on a volunteer basis, “I believe that we should make quality representation available to people who need it. It is essential that we do this work for people who can’t afford it.” Following in their ancestors
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Symposium 2012 Suggested Readings Maude Barlow, Blue Covenant (The New Press, 2007) (Available at the PLU Bookstore for purchase) Maude Barlow has for decades been a leading voice arguing that access
point of view within North America and parallel situations in the European and Asian Arctic.” Steven Solomon, The Epic Struggle for Water, Power and Civilization (Harper, 2010) Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society’s vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. Today, freshwater scarcity is one of the twenty-first century’s decisive, looming
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The pre-professional program at PLU is a course of study (not a major) that prepares you for admission into a professional school or training program following your undergraduate study.
education. If you are interested in a health sciences career, you should have a strong interest in and understanding of the sciences.Why Study Health Sciences at PLU?PLU offers the unique combination of a strong liberal arts curriculum and a high-quality science program set in a mid-sized university environment. Solid Academics The faculty of the Division of Natural Sciences at PLU are trained across the total spectrum of modern science and have professional teaching and research expertise in a full
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The pre-professional program at PLU is a course of study (not a major) that prepares you for admission into a professional school or training program following your undergraduate study.
education. If you are interested in a health sciences career, you should have a strong interest in and understanding of the sciences.Why Study Health Sciences at PLU?PLU offers the unique combination of a strong liberal arts curriculum and a high-quality science program set in a mid-sized university environment. Solid Academics The faculty of the Division of Natural Sciences at PLU are trained across the total spectrum of modern science and have professional teaching and research expertise in a full
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As I travel around talking to prospective students and their families, donors, and friends of PLU, I am often asked, “what is a Lute?” From time to time, I blog about examples of students and alumni that uplift what it means to be a Lute.…
that they can receive a quality education and then go on to be contributing members of society and culture. All of the players were respectful and mature. Finally, their routine of “assisting” the flight attendants during the preflight safety structure was highly entertaining. In any case, I understand that people in your position often receive emails and notes that are critical of you, your players or your program. That is leadership in today’s world. Every once in while, I feel that it is
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Each election cycle I’m reminded of how incredibly multi-disciplinary the responsibilities of our elected officials have become. Similarly, the challenges faced by the leaders of the world’s most successful corporations and NGOs grow ever more global, complex, and nuanced, seemingly by the day. Very few,…
courses in geology will not make a journalist-to-be fluent in climate change, and that simply pass-failing “Ethics and the Good Life” and “Social and Political Philosophy” cannot be the end-all-be-all of a web engineer’s code of ethics. But we also know that a high quality, liberal arts education has always been, and will always be, the foundation on which genuine expertise is built.I once heard an African-American artist from Chicago lament that far too many young people graduate from public high
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Priya McBride, '16, Biology: My Botany Tutorial was led by Oxford Professor Mr. Timothy Walker, Lecturer in Plant Sciences at Somerville College.
, France, and Germany. In particular, we discussed to what degree health care provision is privatized, centralized, and efficient in each of these countries. During The last 4 weeks, we focused on becoming familiar with various techniques for measuring the cost-effectiveness of treatments and screening, including both static and dynamic models. The final project revolved around constructing a dynamic Markov model to compare the effects (in terms of Quality Adjusted Life Years) of following a regimen of
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 27, 2019) — Dr. Jon Grahe’s reach extends around the globe as an open science ambassador. Nearly a decade ago, Dr. Grahe declared that he wanted to change how we study social science. Because of his tireless efforts, a new approach to…
training the next generation of scientists. He was the primary driver of the CREP initiative, which pairs high-quality replications with student researcher training and supervision. It’s an amazing project that accomplishes both scientific and pedagogical goals simultaneously,” Dr. Chartier said. “He also brought open science practices to the Psi Chi journal, introducing badges for open data, open materials, pre-registration, and replication, again introducing new scientists in training to current best
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Pacific Lutheran University seeks faculty with the highest possible qualifications, and offers them conditions of employment commensurate with their professional achievement and conducive to
Section 1. PROMOTION, RANK, AND TENUREPacific Lutheran University seeks faculty with the highest possible qualifications, and offers them conditions of employment commensurate with their professional achievement and conducive to high-quality performance. The university thrives upon the commitment and energy of a diverse faculty. Its programs depend as well upon the variety of faculty appointments that are made, appropriately tenured and untenured, full-time and part-time, emeritus and honorary
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