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TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 21, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University Director of Choral Studies Dr. Richard Nance was recently the recipient of the Northwest American Choral Directors Association Leadership award. Nance, who was awarded the “American Prize” for Choral Conducting in 2011 and 2013, has been a…
work of repertoire in North America. They get to work with one of the world’s best-known conductors and one of the best-known composers of modern repertoire. There is great value in learning to collaborate on such a large scale and in such a visible setting. And I believe ultimately all the performers will be moved by the music and its connection to the story. The SOAC focus this year is on storytelling. What do you think this concert has to say about the art of communicating? We’re telling the
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Sources: Christopher D. Roy. “The Art of Burkina Faso.” The University of Iowa. Art and Life in Africa. http://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/topic-essays/show/37?start=01 Christopher D. Roy. Mossi.
Nuna, populated this area. Those who did not flee intermarried with the Mossi, resulting in the diversity of sculpture and mask designs found on the plateau today. The contemporary Mossi are primarily famers, tending to crops of millet, sorghum, maize and groundnuts. In the north, some Mossi raise livestock. The Mossi language is known as Mooré, one of the two primary languages of Burkina Faso. Numbering 2.2 million, they are the largest ethnic group in the country. Those descended from the
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Performance/clinic: Each school band will perform 15-20 minutes along with a 15-20 minute onstage clinic.
Conducting from Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, Armenia with Hovhaness Mirzoyan where she continued further studies in Orchestral Conducting to learn more from Ruben Asatryan. Coming from Iran and being one of the very few female conductors from her country, Ms. Mahyar has broad experience working with ensembles at all levels in different countries. At Michigan State University, she was the Assistant Conductor for MSU Symphony Orchestra, MSU Concert Orchestra, Musique 21 contemporary music
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Originally published in 2005 For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took…
. Also encouraging, the Conference of the Modern Language Association has in the last two years sponsored three panels on animals which might be described as “pro-animal,” that is, which move beyond studies of animal imagery in, say, Shakespeare or Moby Dick.Such conferences are made possible by a wealth of new research on animals in a wide range of fields. For some time, the conversation about human-animal relations has been largely dominated by terms derived from philosophical ethics. Other fields
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Originally published in 1999 My lifelong commitment to the liberal arts took root in the fourth grade, when I met my classmate and dear life-long friend Sally. During that entire year, Sally rode her bike to my house, and after school, we both rode our…
training and education in the professions which modern society requires” [my italics]?To date, we have begun discussions about new programs in which courses offered by faculty in the professional schools would be combined with courses traditionally offered by faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professors in the professional schools are also being drawn into foundational courses, such as the Freshman experience. Potential cross-disciplinary programs that result from such creative overlaps are
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been interested in Jane Austen, particularly the construction of Austen as a character after her death and how we understand her in contemporary readings.Contributors Kathryn Einan is an English Literature and History double major from Pacific Lutheran University. She has interests in Austen’s novels as well as other classic literature and intends to focus her studies on them. She has enjoyed Austen’s books as well has film adaptations of those books ever since she was young. She has an interest in
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From Diversity Abroad: Minority & Students of Color Abroad In the U.S. you might be classified by your ethnicity, but abroad, you may be identified first as an American.
& Study Abroad Debunked 1 in 1.32 Billion: Being a Black Latina In India Studying Abroad as a Latina First-Generation College Student Gabriela, Spain Yesenia, Santiago Omar, Japan In the video below, hear from two Lutes about their study away experiences:Asian/Asian-American StudentsAsian/Asian-American StudentsResources: Asian American Students in Study Abroad: Resources, Representation, and Awareness Asian American Students in Global Education: Literature Review Where Are You From? Understanding
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Henri Coronado-Volta grew up in Seattle, Washington, and chose PLU because the smaller school offered the opportunity to build community, a chance to continue swimming, and living close to home—but not too close. He double majored in global studies and Hispanic studies and minored in…
through classes and study away programs. Networking opens up many opportunities. While at Seattle Children’s, I was responsible for reaching out to find traumatic brain injury resources in Alaska for a study at Children’s. In the fall of 2022, I did preliminary literature review research and interview-question Spanish translation for a University of Washington palliative care and dementia issues project. As part of that project, I’m helping translate resources for brain injury recovery. I also
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Sophia Barro ’22 is a senior education major and religion minor at PLU. She recently completed full-time student teaching at Lakeview Hope Academy. We spoke with Barro about her experiences at PLU and as a student teacher, and about the values she hopes to inspire…
grade, and I have had the privilege and the blessing to be able to observe teaching in the local Catholic schools. I have always said that I want my students to be critical thinkers and social justice leaders. I think it is really important to have diversity responsive literature in classrooms and I always tie in social justice components including identity, justice, diversity, and action in my teaching. I always said that no matter which school I end up working at, I would uphold that same
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Jeffrey Ebel, Senior Capstone Seminar Solutions of sulfate-stabilized gold nanoparticles (GNP's) were synthesized based on variations to the methods of Davis et al.
Capstone Seminar A selection of the Ribes genus gooseberry/currant plants native to the Northwest were targeted to extract, isolate, and identify antimicrobial compounds based on ethnobotanical literature. Air-dried roots and stems of R. divaricatum, R. aureum, R. bracteosum, and R. Sanguineum were washed with refluxing petroleum ether and then extracted with methanol. Upon concentration in vacuo, the crude extracts were tested against a variety of Gram-positive and Gram-negative strains of bacteria
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