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vast quantities of other game and birds until returning to the Nile, crossing, and breaking for lunch in camp. Following our respite, we drove back to the Nile and boarded boats for a cruise to the base of Murchison Falls. Hippos bobbed in the water like corks and kingfishers hovered feet from our boat, suddenly plunging into the depths to emerge moments later with some form of small prey in their beaks. Uganda has over 11% of the world’s bird species, almost three times as many as the United

Music under David Robbins, who remains the head of the department. Kopta taught private voice lessons at PLU for 11 years. She also taught in her private voice studio while also serving as a choral director. Kopta left PLU in the spring of 2007, but not without making a positive impact on the lives of students of all ages, all levels of ability and all walks of life. Her teaching career was complimented by her career in performing. Kopta spent many years in Seattle and Rome. She was selected to be

colleagues: “More than anything else, Jon has a contagious enthusiasm and passion for improving psychological science and giving others the tools they need to do the best work they can do.” Read Previous Pacific Lutheran University Professor Invited Speaker at United States Naval Academy Read Next J-Term 2020/Psychology & Political Science- Study Away in Prague LATEST POSTS Ricky Haneda ’22 | Psychology Major February 18, 2022 The Evolution of Behavior November 12, 2021 Dr. Laura Shneidman awarded

are all active solo, chamber, and orchestral performers throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond.  The players enjoy performing a wide range of repertoire from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century, including several works that have been commissioned for them.  In 2012, The Lyric Brass released a CD “American Music for Brass Quintet” which includes works by Gwyneth Walker, Charles Ives, David Snow, and a new work written for the group by Sy Brandon.  The members of the Lyric Brass get

Stephanie Pfundt. There will be three prize winners. Third prize is a $250 cash prize, second prize is a $500 cash prize, first prize will be $1000 cash prize and a trip to a national destination to hear Meade perform as well as a consultation and/or voice lesson with one of Meade’s mentors. Sing at PLU!If you love to sing, PLU is the place for you.PLU’s vibrant vocal and choral program provides singers from all academic disciplines with outstanding opportunities for performance and study. The Finale is

harm, another. Building on this strong embrace of human potential and goodness, we are made bold to believe that individual freedom and responsibility is the proper ground on which to build a model of governance and society that is free and open; a model that at once inspires personal achievement, enables greatness, promotes the general welfare, and calls each and all of us to both seek and serve the greater good. Indeed, in countries such as Norway and these United States, this noble experiment in

Former military linguist Kara Atkinson ’23 discusses her service on campus, academic research, and graduate school plans Posted by: Zach Powers / April 18, 2023 Image: Kara Atkinson is a PLU senior majoring in history with minors in religion and Holocaust & genocide studies. (Photos by Emma Stafki ’26) April 18, 2023 By Grant Hoskins ’23PLU Marketing & Communications Student Writer Kara Atkinson ’23 earned an associate degree while serving as an Arabic linguist in the United States Army prior

said. “I would love to be on tour and stuff and record music, but if that doesn’t happen, I would be happy to record in a studio or have my own studio.” The Olson Bros band has a solid repertoire of 30 or so cover songs; Olson plays electric and acoustic guitar and piano, and his brother plays mandolin and guitar. Together they write the original music for the band. Sunrise, like most art that feels truly authentic, arose very organically. “I had to get up early a lot,” Olson said. “Sometimes I

relationship building and spending time with people was something I was really passionate about,” Wiley said. “And to some extent that is what cultural anthropologists do, we study contemporary human life.” Now, Wiley will help PLU students coordinate the courses they need and find internships or volunteer opportunities in Peace Corps sectors, such as education, health or environment. “It will be a way to to dig into the hard questions, like what does it mean to be privileged people from the United States

close. He double majored in global studies and Hispanic studies and minored in Holocaust and genocide studies. We recently met with the PLU senior to discuss his plans for improving health for all.What did you enjoy or learn from your Global Studies major? I enjoyed learning about the strengths and challenges experienced by countries worldwide. In my classes, we studied countries through the use of case studies. It’s important to me to learn what’s happening beyond the United States and how events