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excellent for the university,” he said. “We came into the event very blind, but knowing what we know now, and what our faculty advisor knows now about how it’s set up and what presentations do well, we can clearly say to the next group: ‘These are the things they look for; these are the ways they’re looking for questions to be answered,’ and that alone is huge.” Read Previous Former Gov. Gregoire is PLU’s Earth Day Speaker Read Next Lutes Follow Their Hearts on Alternative Spring Break Trips COMMENTS
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11 PLU Students Attend Amazon’s First Annual PNW Career Day Posted by: Sandy Dunham / February 26, 2015 Image: PLU Communication majors, from left, Anne-Marie Falloria ’15, Taylor Lunka ’15 and Amanda Brasgalla ’15 were part of the PLU group that attended Amazon’s first annual Pacific Northwest Career Day Conference on Feb. 23. February 26, 2015 By Taylor Lunka '15PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (Feb. 25, 2015)—When my advisor first emailed me over J-Term about an opportunity to go
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diversity,” Rush said. “When I read the mission statement I thought ‘wow I really relate to this.’” Beiermann and Rush were chosen from a group of nine students. Ksenija Simic-Muller, program director and assistant professor of math, said the choice was challenging. “We all thought as a committee that anyone of the applicants could have done it and represented PLU very well,” Simic-Muller said. “But Austin and Cate have different backgrounds and different interests and I think they will complement each
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to the community. They charged tenants “social rent,” meaning they were required to do community service in exchange for discounted rates. Volunteer activities include a weekly community cleanup that benefits Phoenix’s Evans-Churchill neighborhood. “So that’s written into their leases,” Duncan explained, “and then a portion of our proceeds each month — collectively, as a group of 10 tenants — goes towards a charity that we rotate.” Groups that the Churchill has benefited include Native American
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, will reflect on the intersection of art, Earth and spirit that informed their successful advocacy for environmental remediation by a mining company in the Cascade Mountains. The Wang Symposium concludes with Justin Spelhaug, who will deliver the 16th Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. Spelhaug leads the Tech for Social Impact group at Microsoft Philanthropies. He’ll explore the role that technology companies are taking in global efforts to fight inequality, eliminate poverty
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I worked with a simulator, and now we get to use the real hardware and work in-person. This project is actually a continuation of a project by a previous capstone group. They finished most of the hardware for the car which has been really helpful to us. Hopefully, after we finish our capstone work, other groups will come and work on it in the future as well. What are some of your goals for the future? I plan on graduating this spring. I am not sure where I would like to work yet, but I do know
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weekly feedback and regular focus group opportunities to connect with students and instructors to help co-design the future of PLUS 100.DataFest Competition The Quigg Award will also go toward the expansion of PLU’s Data Science program through its DataFest Competition. DataFest is an annual competition sponsored by the American Statistical Association and hosted at various universities across the U.S. DataFest is an opportunity for students to work on collaboration, data wrangling, visualization
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class that really changed the way I look at the world, and even myself.” PLU’s GSRS program presented Ash an opportunity to study abroad in Tobago for a month, allowing her to gain hands-on social work experience. Ash partnered with a program for adolescent mothers that combined daycare and school and taught classes like first aid, reproductive health and basic science lessons. Recalling when the group made baking soda and vinegar volcanoes, Ash says, “Just seeing the joy on their faces as they saw
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wanted to impact people’s lives in a positive way, but I also didn’t want to major in biology or chemistry, so I entered my freshman year as a computer science major,” he says. It was a choice that would radically change his chosen path.In his first computer science class at PLU, Gavidia learned how quickly software can scale and impact people around the world. “Just one person, or a small group of people, can accomplish so much,” Gavidia says. That moment was key for him: he realized he didn’t have
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as a boy sitting in a group including his great uncle who lost an arm fighting for the Union at Vicksburg. My dad, who was himself a veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, liked the fact that he had shaken hands with his great uncle Edward Morley, who had himself shaken hands with his grandfather, Capt. Thomas Askey, who had served in the American Revolution. Askey was my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather and I was named Thomas in his honor. I’m sure many of you here
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