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PLU helps celebrate Tacoma Pride Week by raising the rainbow flag on Red Square Posted by: Marcom Web Team / July 10, 2020 July 10, 2020 By Rosemary Bennett '21PLU Marketing and CommunicationsOn Tuesday, Pacific Lutheran University celebrated Tacoma Pride Week with its second annual pride flag raising. Hosted by the dCenter, the online/campus hybrid event featured five student speakers, who spoke about what pride means to them, especially in 2020.“Although this is only our second flag-raising

. Whiteboards, art supplies, prototyping materials and communal equipment are available for use, providing an opportunity for creative growth outside a traditional classroom setting. The real-world skills students pursuing the minor gain include cross-discipline teamwork, problem-solving, hands-on learning, maximizing strengths and limiting weaknesses. “We think it’s really important for students to use their hands, to work in teams in which they build things,” Halvorson said. “We don’t just talk about

education and started looking for jobs. Those real-world skills include cross-discipline teamwork, problem-solving, hands-on learning, maximizing strengths and limiting weaknesses.    A signature feature of the new minor is the Makerspace, a dedicated area in Hinderlie Hall that allows people to gather, collaborate and stretch their creativity. Whiteboards, art supplies, prototyping materials and communal equipment are available for use, providing an opportunity for creative growth outside a traditional

studies is at the heart of this university, so I look forward to being an advocate for our shared work both on campus and beyond.”Literary ScholarshipJohnson earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Washington. Her scholarship focuses on Victorian women’s poetry, most recently an essay on the Victorian “double poem” in the collection Love Among the Poets: The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy published by Ohio University Press. Johnson is also the co-editor of  Cultivating Vocation in Literary

English Writing, with minors in Music and Philosophy. She wrote this article as part of her work in English 320: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction. Read Previous The Trail to Social Justice: Ultrarunning Meets Dark Green Religion Read Next Indivisible: English Faculty Members Join the Anti-Trump Resistance LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26

their cameras, they could still practice the fundamentals used in rehearsals and music-making. By spring of 2021, Brizuela’s school entered a hybrid schedule, so students are now in music class one day per week, in person. Due to guidelines around air-exchange rates, the choirs moved into the performing arts center where students can spread out, and choir participants wear “singer masks,” which look a bit like a duck’s bill.Work tends to be simpler and focused on small groups—even two or three

reproduction, neuroscience, and stem cell research. He received the Stanford Prize in Population Genetics and Society in 2017. His newest book, CRISPR People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans, was published in February 2021. Presented by the PLU College of Liberal Studies, the annual Koller Menzel lecture focuses on creative writing or ethics, the special interests of PLU student Heather Koller, who died of bone cancer in June 1994, shortly after graduation. The Lecture was endowed in 1994 by

. You’ll get to take a First Year Experience course linked to your LC, and will have opportunities to participate in activities related to the theme(s) and communities that most interest you. Below we’ve got answers to questions you might have, and how to select your Learning Community! What are the LC options? (click on the links to get more details about each) Community for Creative Expression Contemporary Issues Diversity, Justice, & Sustainability Community First in the Family Students of Color

. You’ll get to take a First Year Experience course linked to your LC, and will have opportunities to participate in activities related to the theme(s) and communities that most interest you. Below we’ve got answers to questions you might have, and how to select your Learning Community! What are the LC options? (click on the links to get more details about each) Community for Creative Expression Contemporary Issues Diversity, Justice, & Sustainability Community First in the Family Students of Color

and clashes between civilizations, a remarkable woman- through poetry, music and her own indomitable will- survive and aid in the rebuilding of her society. The production runs from November 17-20 in the new Karen Hille Phillips Performing Arts Center on the PLU campus. Based upon the actual poetic writings of Cai Yan (also known as Cai Wenji) Poet Zhang Er has fashioned a timeless and universal tale that speaks to the lives of women across time and around the world who have found themselves