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caught up with the busy senior to learn more.How has your PLU experience prepared you for your future? My PLU experience has prepared me by letting me have hands-on experience that I know I wouldn’t have gotten at a bigger university. Through MediaLab and several other communications classes, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and create content for real clients. Because of this, I have been able to start a portfolio of projects I’ve worked on to show potential employers, as well as establish
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PLU announces Carol Sheffels Quigg Award winners Posted by: nicolacs / December 21, 2022 December 21, 2022 By Veronica CrakerPLU Marketing & CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University is pleased to announce the winners of The Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation, established by alumna and regent Carol Quigg, whose endowment funds the awards. The Quigg Awards provide support for faculty, staff, and students who have demonstrated unusually inventive, original, and creative
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October 11, 2010 Music is very much alive By Chris Albert Several months ago, PLU music professor Edwin Powell began collaborating with Norwegian-born composer Ola Gjeilo. “It’s all been done over Facebook,” Powell said. The PLU Wind Ensemble, director by Ed Powell, will perform the world premiere of Ola Gjeilo’s composition. Powell, the Wind Ensemble director, asked Gjeilo for permission to adapt a chorale piece Gjeilo had done for wind ensemble. He soon found out, Gjeilo was not only
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March 24, 2011 PLU night at the Tacoma Rainiers August is one of the most beautiful months in the Pacific Northwest. August evenings provide beautiful sunsets, warm temperatures and Tacoma Rainiers baseball. PLU Night at the Rainiers started several years ago as a way to celebrate our PLU community and the end of summer. In 2010, 250 Lutes enjoyed an evening at the ballpark. August 12 marks the date of this year’s end-of-summer bash, PLU Night at the Rainiers. For only $10 a person
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she DJs at Lute Air Student Radio (LASR). We caught up with the busy senior to learn more.How has your PLU experience prepared you for your future? My PLU experience has prepared me by letting me have hands-on experience that I know I wouldn’t have gotten at a bigger university. Through MediaLab and several other communications classes, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and create content for real clients. Because of this, I have been able to start a portfolio of projects I’ve worked on to
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, and how he became such a talented musician. How did you first become interested in music? My musical journey was slow at first. The piano was my first instrument. I had a natural ear for music as a child, and taught myself to play. When I turned 10, I moved from the Pacific Northwest to North Carolina, where I started singing in the children’s choir and playing handbells for my church. I joined a concert band at school … band was my favorite. I played euphonium. The Essential Elements band folders
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Voyager 1 spacecraft as well as Carl Sagan’s prose reflecting on the image. In the photo, Earth appears as a single pixel – “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” For this project, Dr. Gillie collaborated with video editor and PLU student Zixuan Guo. We recently met with Professor Gillie to discuss this project. This is clearly a film and composition that have something to say about climate and care for the earth. Yes, I think artists can provide critique and commentary on the state of the times in
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. From the fellowship, Granum, an art and English major, hopes to parlay his love of the natural world and photography into full-time employment. “The experience of putting together this capstone has been absolutely invaluable,” he said. Eventually, Granum would like to make photographing and writing about endangered species his life’s work. “Yeah, I know it’s a cliché, but yes, I’d like to work for National Geographic,” he laughed. Jenny Stein studied colloidal dots and their capacity to absorb and
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when that growth is interrupted by a worldwide pandemic, there’s no real way to adjust to that. It’s been challenging for a lot of people. “I think that PLU has done a great job of making sure that students know that what they’re going through is not normal and that it’s okay to adjust the way you need to.” At Pacific Lutheran University, students, staff and faculty are creatively and compassionately leading efforts to ensure resources are available to PLU students who are experiencing mental
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February 1, 2014 Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ Natalie Burton ’13 plays a Bach piece on the piano for master pianist Vladimir Feltsman during Portland Piano International’s Up Close With the Masters series. (Photo courtesy of Portland Piano International) A Q&A With Natalie Burton ’13 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Music and Chinese Studies major Natalie Burton graduated magna cum laude from PLU in 2013, but she might have taken her most high-profile class
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