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June 29, 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0eHyaJ26Ks Patience and a good ear essential in studying elusive crossbills, which live, breed and sing in the canopy By Barbara Clements Having a conversation with Julie Smith is a stop and go affair. In mid-conversation, she’ll stop, and listen. And then pick up the thread without missing a beat. Smith, an assistant professor of biology, and biology major Aaron Grossberg ’12, are picking their way on a muddy trail to a beach near La Push, Wash

need help.” The campaign officially kicked off Feb. 27 during HUMP. In an effort to become ingrained in the community, the campaign is collaborating with campus organizations on programming that promotes safer communities, such as last Monday’s “Can I Kiss You?” presentation about sexual assault. “What’s cool about this is that students are saying, ‘we want to do this,’” said Kate Fontana, ASPLU religious relations director. Fontana is spearheading the development of a peer education and training

SkillUp Online’s Founder, CEO, and former Director of Online Training at Microsoft, JPS Kohli, who adds, “SkillUp Online’s mission is to inspire individuals to embrace lifelong learning. I believe this aligns perfectly with PLU’s ethos of helping students discern their life’s vocation through coursework, mentorship, and practical experience.” PLU and SkillUp Online instructors will have opportunities to contribute courses to the overall continuing education catalog that the partnership offers. Since

diversity. She hopes to use her degree and the skills she is learning at PLU to help people in need.“I always knew I wanted to help people,” said Marquez about why she chose to study social work. She originally intended to be a French major at PLU, as she had taken French courses in high school. She found social work was a better fit after being introduced to the career field in a few classes. “I love community work and community outreach, and I have learned a lot about myself too.” Marquez currently

speak in unison: their participation in PLU’s innovative International Honors Program. The program, which consists of seven classes that build on each other, focuses on issues of great concern across the globe. The courses are multidisciplinary – meaning they look at issues from many views and perspectives. Below is a conversation with four PLU students who have just completed their first year in PLU’s IHON Program. They speak of small classes that are challenging. They talk of reading lots of

landscape and the unexpected benefits of distance learning.PLU: We’re about a week into PLU’s shift to distance learning. What’s the transition been like? Youtz: This past week has been both tiring and exciting. I am always up for a new adventure, and so figuring out online classes and music lessons has been novel and thus fun. I am constantly concerned that it is not “as good” as face to face, and am having to exhort both myself and my students to get over that comparison and to find instead the

Educator and Cheerleader: Dr. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen Posted by: dupontak / May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 By Allyson Lessard '23English and Philosophy MajorThe COVID-19 pandemic is presenting itself to be a challenging time for educators, but experienced professors like Dr. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen are facing this challenge head-on.Dr. Llewellyn Ihssen is a professor in the religion department at Pacific Lutheran University and teaches classes in the university’s International Honors Program as well

just doing that,” Nargesi continues. “We’re not training people to go be successful workers. We are trying to raise a generation of business people that care, who see the big picture and who are able to be problem solvers at an integrated level. Not just workers who repeat quantitative techniques.”That perspective rings true to business and sociology double major Allisa Ouanesisouk ’21. “My classes had the perfect balance of learning about how businesses are run and how to make the most ethical

had arrived in the U.S.Upon returning home, Brizuela, who majored in music education at PLU, had two in-classroom days with his Clover Park School District students before classes were suspended. “It was a rapid-fire shut down of everything,” he remembers. Two states away, Sarah Lord ’00 was teaching high school biology and environmental science at Billings Senior High School in Billings, Montana. While inconvenienced by the immediate shutdown, she didn’t realize the scope until several weeks

Convocation all classes are cancelled, and all campus offices are closed as well. Opening Day Schedule Classes begin Monday, September 8, 2014. 8:15 a.m.………New Students gather at Red Square 8:00-11:15 a.m.…..Classes cancelled & PLU offices close; Continuing students gather in Olson Auditorium 8:45 a.m.………New Student processional begins 9:00 a.m.………Convocation (Olson Auditorium) 10:15 a.m.……..Involvement Fair (Foss Field) 11:15 a.m.……..Classes start & PLU offices open Read Previous Today’s Chapel at PLU