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, 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

national talent on a blustery evening recently. As the first true evening of fall arrives in Seattle, with rain pinging off the pavement, McEntire and his crew – PLU juniors Luke Sumerfield, Graham Logen and Daniel Baskin – stroll through the crowds in the Seattle neighborhood known as Belltown, to Tula’s, marked by a bright blue neon lights. They edge through the biker bar crowd next door, and enter the dark, narrow restaurant, flanked by brick walls and they are greeted by Mack, the owner, who seems

being a kid in a candy shop.” In April, Hacker traveled with the U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team to Burlington, Vt. to help the athletes prepare for the 2012 USA Hockey World Championships, where they won the silver medal. After the competition, Hacker came back to campus and offered her students a rare glimpse of cutting-edge practices from applied settings with world-class athletes. These examples make the coursework all the more meaningful to the students, who are inspired by her passion for

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

fold,” Anderson said. – Technology in the classroom will continue to grow. While PLU will never be a fully online university, and at least in the short term, shy away from fully online classes, it must meet the expectations of a student body that expects PLU to have cutting-edge technology “if we expect to compete for the next generation of the best and the brightest.” – New Masters’s programs need to be considered as well as possible Doctoral programs. A global focus to a PLU education must be

, father of the micro-lending movement and Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni journalist known as “Mother of the Revolution.”  Journalist Robin Wright, who spoke at PLU last week, will also be at the conference, as will lawmakers and scholars at the cutting edge of peace building.“I like the fact they bring in speakers from business and science as well,” said Claudia Berguson, associate professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Area Studies, who will accompany the students. Berguson is also the Svare-Toven

gained valuable experience promoting “Living on the Edge,” a student-directed documentary on coastal erosion in North Cove, Washington, that debuted this year; and she cited advisor Kate Hoyt as one of several advisers that gave her invaluable advice along the way. “That was the first time I had ever done a premier, so of course I had a billion questions,” she recalled. “She was always there, and if she didn’t know the answer to some weird, specific question I had, she would always do her best and

programming, cutting-edge evaluation tools and innovative operational systems and technical assistance to support all aspects of its integrated programs. Based in Tacoma, Degrees of Change is a national organization that serves students across the Pacific Northwest and Midwest. Of the students served, 90% are students of color, 70% are first-generation college students, and 80% are from low-income families. We love our communities and want to see them thrive in all their diversity. Tacoma Public Schools

was the case. Can you describe your duties as a data analyst? My job, most of it, is ad hoc. I perform some system checks. So there are lots of systems that data goes through on the way to the Portfolio Analytics and Reporting (PARis) system. I will do automated 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

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