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graduation, or she may start her own business. She may also apply for an internship with O’Barry’s Dolphin Project. “Ideally, I would like to continue creating documentaries with my sister to raise awareness and educate about our environment,” Stafki says. In the meantime, she will submit “Echos of the Sound” to several regional and international film festivals. “This endeavor is not merely a student project. It is a deeply personal commitment that I have poured my heart and soul into. I’m driven to

did you enjoy about collaborating and researching with Professors [Peter] Grosvenor and Hames? I really appreciate the international relations theory aspect that Dr. Grosvenor was able to provide, as he has been to Palestine. I was able to get feedback and more nuance from him. I don’t shy away from peer reviews, because they just make the paper stronger, having multiple sets of eyeballs on it. Dr. Hames assisted me in tailoring some of the writing, because this paper is what I used when applying

experience in international health care that got her hired. MSF quickly put that experience to the test. Ford first served a year in western Kenya, working in projects providing treatment for tuberculosis and for HIV/AIDS using anti-retroviral drugs. There, she witnessed how the virus has deteriorated the African family structure. Traditionally, extended families live together. But with an HIV/AIDS infection rate of 40 percent, too many children are left orphaned. Grandparents, aunts and uncles are

unaware that it’s in a relative decline,” Jacques said. “And I think realizing this, as it was for the British, will be painful.” Jacques is a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics, IDEAS, a center for the study of international affairs, diplomacy and grand strategy, and a visiting research fellow at the LSE’s Asia Research Centre. He is a columnist for The Guardian and the New Statesman. An award-winning journalist, in 1988 he became a columnist and essayist for the Sunday Times, a

projects include efforts like stream and beach restorations, water quality improvements, and cleanups of contaminated property. We understand that this is an industrial agency with a hundred plus years of history here. We understand that we have a legacy of contamination that was left by private companies and we’re working to clean that up. It seems complicated, an international seaport that’s both in this historically polluted part of the Puget Sound at the mouth of the Puyallup River.  That’s right

engineer. It’s where he says he realized he enjoyed the creativity that comes with user interface and user experience development. At Metronet, he created a feature that allowed users to pay their bills without logging into the website. “The fact that I was able to create that feature for Metronet and see the results — for example, it reduced customers having to go to the store and talk to someone face-to-face — that impact was important to me,” he says.Netflix And No Time To Chill A couple of weeks

for Windows, the Mac, smart phones, and other devices (does anyone remember programming printers?). I will tell you that it takes a long time for a company to build-up the tools and infrastructure to get engineers excited about a new technology. Not so with Amazon Alexa. The software development tools are readily available now for experimenting with Alexa and making a connection in your favorite programming language. (The top four used now are Java, JavaScript, C#, and Python.) Take a look at this

with his internship at internet company Metronet, headquartered in Indiana. The internship was Ronquillo’s first exposure to working as a software engineer. It’s where he says he realized he enjoyed the creativity that comes with user interface and user experience development. At Metronet, he created a feature that allowed users to pay their bills without logging into the website. “The fact that I was able to create that feature for Metronet and see the results — for example, it reduced customers