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and love that they have for places around the world,” said PLU Associate Professor of Art and Design and T.I.E.S. Program Director JP Avila. Joel Zylstra, Director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service at PLU, helped plan and launch T.I.E.S. He says the program connects “global influence with local concerns and opportunities.” “Tacoma offers an incredible window in seeing how globalization continues to influence how local communities function,” Zylstra said. “While PLU’s international

communication, says a recent Mellon Foundation grant made the curriculum change possible. “This is an exciting development in our department,” Young said. “Our main focus remains media and media studies across a variety of contexts.” The goal in coming years is to design and implement a hallmark PLU program, by harnessing existing faculty interest and leadership in Communication and elsewhere on campus. This is hopefully the start of something big, says Robert Marshall Wells — associate professor of

New PLU course Chem 103 illustrates chemistry through food Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / August 14, 2019 Image: Dr. Andrea Munro, an associate professor of chemistry at PLU, preps dough in the Scandinavian Center kitchen for Chem 103, an online food chemistry class for distance-learning students. August 14, 2019 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 13, 2019) — Pacific Lutheran University’s Dr. Andrea Munro didn’t design Chem 103: Food Chemistry in order to teach

.  Dupont is working with McKinstry full-time from home, building skills in writing, web design, video editing, organizational communications, and promotion. “I’m very thankful for this work,” Dupont said. “I feel like I’m doing something valuable with my summer. It’s been so nice to use this time to grow my skills. I’ve gotten great hands-on skills, keeping communication going through something as dramatic as the pandemic.” These students are working hard to ensure that even a global pandemic will not

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them in a different, new direction: sound design. Hanne was in charge of designing the foley work and soundtrack for the production. The most interesting part of the process for them was researching and experimenting with different foley sounds. In typical filmmaking, foley is the reproduction of everyday sounds that are layered on top of the visuals, as not every sound can be recorded straight from the source. Many hours of work went into determining the methods and tools to perfectly reproduce

working in video games, I became increasingly uncomfortable with the direction games were going, as they became more violent and graphic. When I finally left the industry to resume my teaching career, it became my intention to use my compositional talents for more noble purposes. My favorite project to date is a score to an actual film, FW Murnau’s 1928 silent classic City Girl.  The film, I believe, is a work of art, not something of fleeting value like most video games. City Girl was one of the last