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On Monday, February 19, 2018 (President’s Day), students at Pacific Lutheran University are invited for a special tour of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (HQ). The event is being sponsored by Amazon and PLU’s office of Career Connections and Alumni and Constituent Relations . Interested PLU students…
interdisciplinary endeavor. In the wake of this cross-fertilization and expansion, I came to believe that most innovation research is best approached through an interdisciplinary frame. I still try to implement this insight at PLU, where we specialize in interdisciplinary training. At Amazon Corporation, there are now 5,000 people working on Alexa and related technologies. This represents a major investment in money and people power, and it indicates how important the company believes that conversational
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Toppenish school district had long wanted district teachers to obtain an English Language Learners (ELL) endorsement to boost the district’s inclusion model for English-language learners. The endorsement is added to a teacher’s basic certification and allows them to be certified in English language learners and/or…
programs. “What happened was Covid,” Martin says. “When the government shut down schools, and we were all on stay-at-home orders, we found ourselves with time and flexibility we usually don’t have.” Due to pandemic scheduling, teachers had reduced instructional time, and teacher-parents didn’t have to manage their own children’s schooling and extracurriculars. Toppenish reached out to PLU’s Dr. Tricia Valdez-Zontek to put together a virtual opportunity. The district used Title 3 money to cover most
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Stuart Gavidia is a first generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. From an early…
gained his first experience in technology at Pierce County as a Software Development Intern. “I worked as part of the I.T. department, and I got to work with many front-end and back-end technologies.” Gavidia interned at Amazon on the Alexa Notifications team during the summer following his sophomore year. He contributed to a project involving cutting-edge facial recognition technologies. “It was a complicated project, but it was very rewarding, too,” Gavidia says. During the fall of his junior year
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Stuart Gavidia is a first generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. He also knew…
, Gavidia gained his first experience in technology at Pierce County as a Software Development Intern. “I worked as part of the I.T. department, and I got to work with a lot of front-end and back-end technologies.” During the summer following his sophomore year, Gavidia interned at Amazon on the Alexa Notifications team. He contributed to a project involving cutting-edge facial recognition technologies. “It was a complicated project but it was very rewarding, too.” Gavidia says. During the fall of his
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Sol y Luna is a center in Mexico that serves severely disabled children. (Photos by Greg Williams) Drawn to serve By Katie Scaff ’13 For PLU professor Greg Williams Mexico is more than a spot to vacation – it’s a place to continue his service…
February 8, 2012 Sol y Luna is a center in Mexico that serves severely disabled children. (Photos by Greg Williams) Drawn to serve By Katie Scaff ’13 For PLU professor Greg Williams Mexico is more than a spot to vacation – it’s a place to continue his service to children with disabilities. Williams has made more than a dozen trips to Mexico over the last four years to volunteer at a local center for severely disabled children called Sol y Luna. Williams, a professor of Instructional Development
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Job Summary: The Laboratory internship is a temporary, paid position based in Marshfield, WI for approximately 12 weeks over the summer. The Intern will work under the direction of PhD Geneticists. Responsibilities: The primary project will focus on examining the impact of novel splicing variants…
plasmid platform. The secondary project will focus on retrospectively collecting interpretation information for a future database project for copy number variants. Additional projects may be assigned as company needs dictate and personal interests of the intern. Read relevant literature, perform laboratory work, and present findings related to test development. The student will have the opportunity to learn about genetic testing including Sanger and NextGen sequencing and array CGH technologies. At
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Job Summary: The Laboratory internship is a temporary, paid position based in Marshfield, WI for approximately 12 weeks over the summer. The Intern will work under the direction of PhD Geneticists. Responsibilities: The primary project will focus on examining the impact of novel splicing variants…
plasmid platform. The secondary project will focus on retrospectively collecting interpretation information for a future database project for copy number variants. Additional projects may be assigned as company needs dictate and personal interests of the intern. Read relevant literature, perform laboratory work, and present findings related to test development. The student will have the opportunity to learn about genetic testing including Sanger and NextGen sequencing and array CGH technologies. At
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Professor Kory Brown and five of the six students who will be competing in the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition in Long Beach, Calif., this year. Working Together By Steve Hansen On Kory Brown’s office wall there is a small rectangular plaque. He earned it…
worked in the semiconductor and wireless industries on communication technologies like Bluetooth, USB, IrDA, ZigBee and related smart grid technologies. In 2006, he left industry to earn a Ph.D. in management and strategy. So, given all those accomplishments, what was it about that plaque? “I learned more from that competition than I learned from my four-plus years of MBA school,” he said with a smile. (And this comes from a guy who was named his university’s MBA Student of the Year.) To be sure
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Stuart Gavidia is a first-generation Latino student who spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU. He knew he wanted to come here for college so he could remain close to his family. He also knew from an…
year, Gavidia gained his first experience in technology at Pierce County as a Software Development Intern. “I worked as part of the I.T. department, and I got to work with a lot of front-end and back-end technologies.”During the summer following his sophomore year, Gavidia interned at Amazon on the Alexa Notifications team. He contributed to a project involving cutting-edge facial recognition technologies. “It was a complicated project but it was very rewarding, too.” Gavidia says. During the fall
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Gravit Designer is a free, easy-to-use, vector-based graphic design software program. Gravit can be used to create flyers, logos, presentations, and a multitude of other graphic design content. This software includes features similar to Adobe Illustrator and InDesign, making it a viable alternative to more…
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