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in the 21st century. Next up are two master classes specifically for our Guitar students. International recording and performing artist Gohar Vardanyan was a featured guest performer and teacher at the 2017 PLU Guitar Festival, and participants are still talking about her Technique class and amazing performance. We are lucky to have her back to visit us virtually. In fall 2020 Christopher Mallet joined us as a panelist in a roundtable discussion on Racial Equity in the Classical Guitar World and
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are not always comfortable conversations, but I’ve found great joy and a sort of liberation in the opportunities for honesty, resolve and direction they can provide.” The first People’s Gathering in February 2017 was attended by roughly 200 people. By the third installment in April 2019, attendance had increased to more than four hundred. Plans for a fourth on-campus event were set aside when COVID-19 hit in early 2020. However, as the pandemic accentuated health discrepancies within marginalized
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experiencing in-person school for the first time. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Chief Leschi had a three-year plan to ramp up and launch digital learning. “We did it in three weeks,” Leavens says. “We got really creative.” Every student received a computer to facilitate online learning. The school hosted a drive-through distribution where students received a Chief Leschi tote bag filled with pens, pencils and curriculum materials. Part of the key to the school’s success was having staff spend time
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Read Next Dr. Maria Chávez APSA Member of the Month LATEST POSTS Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford July 8, 2024 Quan Huynh ’25 Discusses her Internship at the Washington State Senate February 28, 2023 Professor Maria Chavez selected for 2021-23 Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau July 2, 2021 Jeremy Knapp ’21 talks interning for a state senator in Olympia, passion for political science and future career April 2, 2020
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really rooted in the idea of introducing newer theater artists in training to theater practitioners who are already in the industry and have experience. There were two internships that I was looking at … the directing one and the teaching intern one, which is the one that I got. Both of them were really exciting to me, and they were also paid internships, so that was a big part of it too. What was the application process like, and what do you believe helped you stand out and land the internship? I
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is one step towards training the public to consume media smartly, and gives them a helping hand to reference when they are unsure.Read full project briefMax Tucker: Lexicon App Artist Statement: Lexicon is an App idea created to improve media literacy and to function as an information resource tool. Lexicon functions as a media library that constantly updates articles and information. These articles are rated through a process of trust factors, as outlined by The Trust Project, and are rated
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still follow that stuff avidly,” Youtz says. “I wanted to be a philosopher, I wanted be a historian, I love anthropology, of course I have no formal training in any of these. “Music just kept pulling me back.” Arriving in Champagne, Youtz signed on as an able-bodied migrant laborer, picking champagne grapes along the French countryside. Following four weeks of fieldwork, Youtz hitchhiked south with burgundy-stained digits, and stumbled into employment at L’Aigle (The Eagle), a ski resort nestled
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remember fondly her stellar performance of Prokofiev’s wickedly difficult Sonata for Flute and Piano in her senior recital.” So while Rottle’s PLU plan might have been a little up in the air, one thing was certain: After earning a bachelor’s degree in Music, there was no question she was a musician. And she wanted even more. “Being a student, you need to get the credentials and skills,” Rottle said. “Especially being a performer, it is less about the academic side of it; it is more about the training
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experiments. Each day, I would either write up a new lab protocol, attempt to replicate a previous experiment’s results, or analyze data. I usually stayed until around 7 p.m., then collected my things, and biked home. When I started, I did one day of online lab safety training and then moved into shadowing for a few days. By the end of my first week, I had been given multiple lines of MOLM-13 acute myeloid leukemia cells. During my second week, I was preparing and running an assay to measure senescence in
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the university. Inspiring bright, young Lutes to “put on their goggles” and ask their own questions about “stuff” is key to our work as faculty in the chemistry department. Students at PLU receive excellent hands-on training in the classrooms and laboratories of Rieke. Now is a particularly exciting time in the chemistry department. With near record numbers of majors, student-faculty research projects recently have ranged from investigating additives that would give polymers or plastics new
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