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works pretty well,” Rønning laughed. Ronning, who plays violin, came to PLU as a music major in 1985. While at PLU, he managed to join a string quartet, and during the summer snagged some gigs at one of the main lodges in Yellowstone National Park. “For four hours every night, we were the entertainment,” said Ronning, who is an associate professor of music, and chair of the string division at PLU. At the lodge, they had a captive audience. And some of the members of that audience were vacationing

, concerts and operas in Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Canada, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, South Korea and the United States. I have previously taught at Texas State University in San Marcos and Baylor University in Waco, Texas.  I am also on the faculty at Cornish-American Song Institute in England, a summer three-week intensive study of art songs for singers, composers and pianists. I received my education and training from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music

during a break in rehearsal. Jack Sorensen, ’13, plays Stephen, who is a ghost, then nine years old, and then his adult self as the play ends.  Jill Heinecke, ’13, plays the youngest, 7-year-old Claire, at the beginning of the play. PLU student Jordan Beck ’12 has also composed music for the production and also serves as musical director for all the plays. Beck’s composition will be played on an instrument called a samisen, a banjo-like instrument that is the traditional instrument of choice to

Chapel is the home to early morning Bible Studies and late-night Holden Evening Prayer services. It is, as every Lute knows, one of the most popular places on campus to “pop the question” as couples become engaged. It is where students go to pray and discern their vocational call. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nju3cfhfPtk In the 16 years that Nancy Connor and I have been the University Pastors we have presided over weddings, baptisms, prayer vigils for social concerns, funerals and memorial services

, October 3, at the 7th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lectureship, which was established by the Benson Family Foundation during the 2005-2006 academic year, brings to campus outstanding members of the academic and business community. The topic for the night’s lecture came from a debate Coclanis had with economic historian Stanley Engerman in November 2009. In both debates he argued that based on economic reasoning slavery would not have survived much longer without

the skull and the DNA, that this is a different species.” Their discovery was recently published in the Journal of Mammalogy, a renowned scientific outlet for studies on the biology of mammals. In it, the international team of scientists from Ecuador and the U.S. described a new species found in the cloud forests of Sangay National Park and clarified the family tree of this group. Reed Ojala-Barbour ’11. (Photo by John Froschauer) The new species of shrew-opossum, Caenolestes sangay, looks like a