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Faculty Spotlight: Catherine Ha Posted by: Lace M. Smith / August 16, 2019 August 16, 2019 By James CarpenterGuest WriterDr. Kyoungnam Catherine Ha is an accomplished researcher and professor in the field of marketing analytics, with publications and honors in the U.S. and abroad. But when she was young, her aspirations were in a different direction.“Believe it or not, I wanted to be a pianist,” she remembers. “When I was in elementary school, my piano teacher even recommended me to a

telling the story of a community in peril,” Dr. Kate Hoyt, Assistant Professor of Communication, and faculty advisor of MediaLab “The public should attend because with our changing climate the issue of coastal erosion will become a much bigger deal for many people in the coming future. It is also a great opportunity to learn the story of North Cove and what makes the residents so resilient and special,” Garrett Johnson, Student Director of the documentary. The premiere will be Saturday, April 27th at

,” Ezhokina says. “It’s actually very much a highlight of my semester.” Ezhokina says she’s looking forward to working with her colleagues and building upon PLU’s great music tradition. She hopes to help the music department continue to become one of the most coveted places to come and study piano and music in general. Ezhokina was formerly with Cornish College of the Performing Arts where she taught for four years as an adjunct professor. She has also served as Co-Artistic Director of Icicle Creek Music

: www.plurelay.org The PLU Relay for Life has earned its fifth Nationwide Top Ten award for per-capita fundraising, contributing more than $25,000 from the 2013 event to the American Cancer Society. Since the first PLU Relay, in 2006, Lutes have raised nearly $200,000. “It is a great reminder of what a group of dedicated students can do to help in the battle against cancer,” said Ray Lader, Associate Director for Student Rights and Responsibilities at PLU. Each year, PLU’s Colleges Against Cancer club works to

stage to sing F. Melius Christiansen’s arrangement of Beautiful Savior. TicketsTuesday, October 17 and Wednesday, October 18 at 8pm Buy“The PLU Choral Concert is always one of my favorite events of the year. It’s always exciting to hear the new versions of our choral ensembles for the first time. I also love having them all combine to sing Beautiful Savior with the alumni at the end of the concert. It’s a powerful symbol of the great PLU choral tradition,” Richard Nance, conductor of the Choir of

work in Seattle, Spokane, or San Diego, go, I will never tell you not to go. But if you want to do, say, architecture and you just don’t know any architectural firms locally, well here, let me introduce you to three great local firms and then you can figure out if it’s a good fit for you or not. I just want to provide exposure to students.” One of many impactful programs managed by Tacoma-based nonprofit Degrees of Change, Seeds Internships also hosts a weekly class with participating students to

of a familiar piece they know by heart, the audience of a jazz concert is expecting the opposite. They’re expecting the unexpected. “It is like attending a great lecture; you go because you know that the speaker is great and the theme is interesting, but you don’t know what exactly will be said until you hear it,” he says. “Everything that happens at that concert will never happen again exactly the same way. You can come back the next night and watch it again and your experience will be different

May 24, 2010 Around the world to find a calling By Chris Albert While waiting for a flight, a fellow passenger starts to make small talk with Najib Abbas. The conversation starts with pleasantries, maybe they discuss the weather, but before long the fellow traveler will be telling Abbas about their life, about themselves – in great detail. Najib Abbas is returning to his home in Saudi Arabia to be a marriage and family therapist. (Photo by John Froschauer) “I’ve gone through that a thousand

like it,” Hacker said. “They all stuck together. Everyone. Across the country and divisions — high schoolers, college athletes, even the U.S. men’s hockey team.” Hacker has been with the women’s team for seven years. She works with the coaching staff to formulate psychological exercises to improve individual and team performance. "At this level physical difference between teams is not that great. But the psychological difference is often the difference for first or second place."- Colleen Hacker

career, was also true for his education. Parsons originally entered Washington State University. But as he started to figure out what he wanted to do after college, transferring to PLU made a lot of sense. “I liked what I saw at PLU,” he recalled. “I liked the smaller environment and the smaller class sizes. It felt good to me. Plus, I thought they had a great business program.” Also factoring into the equation: a move to PLU would allow him to be closer to the businesses that would likely employ him