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about mathematics’ beauty and power, as well as its theory and applications.Art in the Making In January 2020, Sklar attended the Joint Mathematics Meetings, an annual gathering of the major national mathematical professional organizations. While there, she sat in on a session on mathematics and art. In the session, Ingrid Daubechies, a Duke University mathematician, and Dominique Ehrmann, a fiber artist, proposed the math-art installation and called for collaborators. Sklar rushed to sign up. Sklar

my passion for it that gets me back up every time. Read Previous A slice of history: PLU Crew, the Husky Clipper, George Pocock, and the sport of rowing Read Next Five exceptional staff members receive PLU’s Distinguished Staff Award at annual holiday banquet COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their

intrepid class helped seal a spot in history for PLU as the very first U.S. college to have students and professors studying on all seven continents at the same time. PLU has long been a leader in global education, and an important part of that is giving our students multiple opportunities to study in different locations — whether that’s as close as Neah Bay, Washington, or as far away as Antarctica. And students take advantage of these opportunities — over half of all students study away at least once

thinks it’s giving us.” Lurking within this Persuasion, the line runs, is a richer, more robust film that is more faithful to the real stuff of Austen. And here I am in some sympathy. A film that ends with Anne and Wentworth sitting on the ground staring out to sea doesn’t catch the heart of Austen’s novel. In Austen’s novel Anne is persuaded out of marriage to Wentworth on the basis of his birth and almost talks herself into marriage to her cousin, William Walter Elliot (Henry Golding), on the same

Why Chatbots Are the Future of Market Research Posted by: wagnerjc / December 19, 2017 December 19, 2017 Originally published by American Marketing Association on October 1, 2017 by Kate DuHadwayJust as the adoption of the internet and the spread of social media fundamentally changed the way we interact and communicate, the next wave of change is at our doorsteps. And it's poised to overhaul our current perceptions and use of artificial intelligence Last April, Facebook announced at its annual

crowd Friday, who had gathered in the Scandinavian Center to attend the annual Powell and Heller Holocaust Conference. The conference concluded Saturday. The conference brought together hundreds of educators, students and many others to listen to the stories of genocide and embrace the notion to “never forget.” As a young Hungarian woman, Ban and her family were rounded up as if they were “not human, not even animals” and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Ban’s mother, grandmother

better place. PLU just dedicated a cutting-edge studio theater at the heart of campus, and now the performing arts center main stage is under renovation. The acoustically brilliant Lagerquist Concert Hall in Mary Baker Russell Music Center plays host to more than 100 annual concerts. And unlike many other universities and conservatories with exemplary programs, PLU has opportunities (and scholarships!) for performers of all experience levels – you don’t even have to be a major or minor to get

evening’s key speakers.   Evening photos of Llewellyn Ihssen’s beaming, radiant face demonstrate her joy and thrill at the experience of transforming “problematic space” as she applied experiences and knowledge to increase access. “Museum visitors received it well, which was meaningful for me,” she says. The now permanent collection in this Oxford museum will continue sharing Llewellyn Ihssen’s knowledge half a hemisphere away.  Read Previous The 8th Annual Diversity and Inclusion Speaker Series: Dr

said. “But I decided that as long as I was going to be there, I was going to contribute to the democratic process and express an alternative perspective.” × × × President Donald Trump finished his speech by inviting the crowd to join him in his campaign slogan. As tens of thousands shouted in unison “make America great again,” a man ran up to two women standing 10 feet in front of the PLU students and punched one of them in the head. Both women were holding anti-Trump signs and shouted “not my

. (Photo by John Froschauer) She spoke last week at the Fifth Annual Powell and Heller Family Holocaust Conference where the focus looked at art theft by the Nazis and reparation to victims of the Holocaust. In his keynote speech at the Lemkin Lecture Thursday evening,  Peter Hayes, the Theodor Z. Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor at Northwestern University, said that billions have been paid in reparations since the end of the war, with most of the payments coming from Germany. However