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Tacoma Public Schools,” said Zachary Lyman, PLU Associate Professor of Trumpet and Music Theory. “I saw him over the summer, and the care and passion that he brings to his students is unlike anything I have ever seen.  It is so inspiring, and this honor is richly deserved for him!” The next step in the Grammy Award process comes in December, when 10 finalists are announced. And then the winner—possibly a Lute with a PLU-infused passion for music and teaching—will be announced during Grammy week 2015

, music composition theory and conducted the Concert Chorus.  “The music department in those early days was small and my father brought his teaching skills to composition classes, choral conducting and other diverse classes,” Fritts said.  Fritts founded the Paul Fritts & Co. Organ Builders in 1979, and says he has been dedicated to the design and construction of high-quality pipe organs ever since. His company was commissioned by former music professor David Dahl to develop the Lagerquist Hall organ

universities’ respective graduate programs offices at gradadmission@plu.edu or graduate@pugetsound.edu. Current students, recent graduates, and all alumni from PLU and Puget Sound are invited to take advantage of the partnership. (Photo by Sy Bean/courtesy University of Puget Sound) PLU Graduate ProgramsThe graduate programs at PLU are designed to combine practice and theory to prepare students to take the next step in their careers. Learn more about our programs. Read Previous National Guard member and

Arthur’s Stone, a Neolithic chambered tomb.“It was an amazing experience, and it really solidified my love for archeology,” Jakowchuk said. “I knew I liked archeology in the classroom, learning about the theory, the reading and writing. Then getting this hands-on experience gave me that same joy. It was just super exciting.” Because Jakowchuk was a sophomore when COVID hit, her initial plans to study abroad were canceled. But the PLUS Year, a tuition-free fifth year, allowed her to return to the U.K

foster a variety of skills that will help them be successful when they return to PLU and after they graduate. “Students are actually demonstrating evidence that they are able to move nimbly from one cultural context to another,” Williams explained. Such willingness to participate outside their comfort zone, flexibility, and maturity are the types of qualities that will expand opportunities for students. “The study away experience is an experience that is increasingly being valued by graduate schools

anyone and published later. The paper is entitled “Bureaucrats, Soldiers and Murderers: Issues of Guilt and Responsibility in Holocaust Literature” and I would like to think that while it does not answer the question of why these patterns occurred it does give some evidence that these patterns are there. I started with an outline, knowing what I needed to read to answer questions about guilt and innocence – that is, I needed volume as well as depth, and historical information on top of literary

Norway. Their task was to debate the merits of ownership of the Senkaku Islands, which has been an ongoing dispute between Japan, China and Taiwan, with claims of ownership going back centuries. “At the very beginning we asked the students, ‘What makes a good diplomat?'” said Gina Hames, chair of the History Department. Japan and Taiwan made their case, and the Norwegian group was to discuss the merits of each. Ultimately, they learned using evidence to state a point and clarifying meaning are

work investigates a rarely considered yet critical dimension of anti-Semitism that was instrumental in the conception and perpetration of the Holocaust: the association of Jews with criminality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZPatgrXO8w Drawing from a rich body of documentary evidence, including memoirs and little-studied photographs, Michael Berkowitz traces the myths and realities pertinent to the discourse on “Jewish criminality” from the eighteenth century through the Weimar Republic, into the

recycle until he came to PLU, but now he’s passionate about protecting the environment and sharing his knowledge with others. The geosciences and chemistry major plans to teach high school science. Under the guidance of Claire Todd, visiting assistant professor of geosciences and environmental studies, those in the program have spent a large portion of J-Term reviewing the evidence for recent climate change. They have been reviewing data collected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC

of what the crucial moral considerations in the Jus in Bello portion of just war theory are. We are seeking to bring the discipline of philosophy, and ethical theory in particular, to bear on the issue of how soldiers make decisions on the battlefield. This is an emergent issue in military ethics that has implications relative to what actions in war are morally permissible, based on the knowledge soldiers are capable of obtaining amidst the chaos of war. This project would further and sharpen