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. 14. Olson is a Business major/Music minor from Olympia, and while he’s “leaning more toward the music right now,” he’s finding the business end really helpful. “We don’t have a manager for our band,” Olson said. “We have to handle all the money. There’s a lot of business, so we have to do all that.” As for the music, Olson takes keyboarding at PLU and private songwriting/recording lessons with PLU’s Jeff Leisawitz. “He has a lot of experience in the music industry and has been a big help,” Olson
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Pacific Lutheran University on April 21.Finney’s lecture, “This Patch of Soil: Race, Nature and Stories of Future Belonging,” is about how the discussion of environmental and racial issues is grounded in the experience of a particular place. Dr. Kevin O’Brien, chair of the Environmental Studies program, says he expects Finney to also talk about how the relationship between race and nature has been defined in the past, and the possibility of “future belonging,” creating communities of a genuine
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NCAT-supported centers are designed to be life changing. “(Our goals) go beyond equipping students with specific skills, to empowering each participant to effect the change they want to see in their own lives,” Schouten said. Nguyen, who has 20 years of experience in Pierce County workforce development, agrees. “We can make our community better by providing access to arts and education,” she said. “It’s the key to rising out of poverty and having a better life — and that’s why this project is so
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one day after PLU’s 11th annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, a conference that empowers attendees to use the lessons of the Holocaust to challenge prejudices, violence and other forms of dehumanization. The timing served to heighten the shock. There are no words. There are no words for our anguish, our anger and our despair when we experience this heart-wrenching news. As Rabbi and PLU partner chaplain Bruce Kadden said at a solidary event Sunday night at Temple Beth El in
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reflect the students they serve. The program will give recipients a pathway to earning a degree through an exceptional PLU scholarship in a supportive cohort with extensive mentoring and paid work experience at Tacoma Schools throughout their college tenure. “Our goal is to equip TPS graduates who want to be teachers with the tools to succeed and empower them as educational leaders and changemakers,” said Pat Erwin, director of Education Pathways at Tacoma Public Schools. Teachers are in high demand
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.” Duffy, Madeline and Matthew competed in 2022 as well, solving a problem on asteroid mining, an experience which set them up to assist associate professor of mathematics Mei Zhu in running the workshop that prepares students for the annual competition in February. Zhu has taught the J-term class on overload for almost twenty years. Before PLU had a BS in Applied Mathematics, it was one of the few opportunities for students interested in applying math skills to real-world problems. Each year she
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university experience, especially for potential future first-generation students. PLC’s Big Buddies program brings PLU students to James Sales Elementary for mentoring, homework help, games, crafts, and other activities twice a week after school. “We meet students where they are,” Yaden says. “PLU students don’t always get a lot of opportunities to engage with the Parkland/Spanaway community, so PLC is an important connection between campus and community,” Rogers says. “Our students learn about the
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A slice of history: PLU Crew, the Husky Clipper, George Pocock, and the sport of rowing Posted by: mhines / December 19, 2023 Image: The 1967 PLU varsity crew in the Husky Clipper scrimmaging against the JV boat. (Photo by PLU Photographer Ken Dunmire) December 19, 2023 By Jim Ojala '69Editor’s Note: Jim Ojala ’69, a dedicated rower rooted in his PLU experience, earned four varsity letters and fostered a profound connection to the sport. Through a compelling photo essay, Ojala explores the deep
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multiple trips to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art (free admission for CUNY students!), visited the Statue of Liberty with her parents, and savored a slice of Joe’s Pizza in Washington Square Park. Taking notes in the New York Public Library Walking the Brooklyn Bridge with fellow PLU grad, Sarah Ameny ‘17 Fun as it is to be in New York, studying and making new academic connections are major (and rewarding) parts of the graduate school experience. Carli earned minors in
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interaction between professors and students here.” He thinks that his own method when approaching a teacher–student relationship is very similar: “That’s what I experienced here for four years when I was an undergrad, and that’s what got me started on this career path. I don’t think a lot of universities have that personal interaction with the teacher and I’m very thankful that I had that experience as an undergrad, and now I get to do that as well in my teaching.” Robin and Collin during their time as
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