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Choir of the West wins on a global stage Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / June 15, 2015 Image: The Choir of the West with jury members after winning the Anton Bruckner Choir Grand Prize Award. June 15, 2015 By Mandi LeCompte and Zach PowersChoir of the West brings back the grand prize at the International Anton Bruckner Choir Competition and FestivalThe Choir of the West covered a lot of ground on their recent European Tour—five countries in twelve days, multiple gold awards and the grand prize

1957 PLU graduate, Foege’s talk, titled “From Smallpox to HIV/AIDS: The Changing Face of Global Health,” is slated for Friday, Feb. 22 at 11:15 a.m. in Chris Knutzen Hall. Foege is widely recognized as a leader in the successful eradication of smallpox in the 1970s. He has championed many issues, but child survival and development, injury prevention, population, preventive medicine and public health leadership are of special interest, particularly in the developing world. A strong proponent of

October 1, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq3lW0AVSJo A Veteran Soccer Player By Valery Jorgensen ’15 PLU’s men’s soccer team gained a veteran player this season—in every sense of the word. Jeremy Dornbusch ’15, a transfer student with sophomore standing, is a war veteran and a seasoned soccer player. In his eight year active-duty career with the U.S. Army, he has been deployed three times: once for 13 months in Iraq, and again for 15-and 12-month stints in Afghanistan. Dornbusch recently

was a pre-med major in college!). In middle school while waiting to go to orchestra class, I used to make fun of singers because they would make silly sounds and make crazy faces out in the hallway. Now I am a singer and have made silly noises while making funny faces warming up in taxis, public bathrooms, random stairways and even outside in the woods when no practice rooms were available. I bet innocent passersby thought I was a crazy lady. I am a lyric mezzo-soprano and have performed recitals

May 24, 2010 PLU Fulbright recipients ready to engage the world By Chris Albert This year, three PLU students – Eric Buley, Nicolette Paso and Kelly Ryan – received prestigious U.S. Fulbright Student Fellowships. Since 1975, 83 students from PLU have received the award. Eric Buley will be teaching in Venezuela and Nicolette Paso will be conducting research in Germany. Both adventures are as U.S. Student Fulbright Fellows. (Photo by John Froschauer) Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the

. Rude comes to PLU from Chicago, where she most recently served as program director for Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, and as a colleague in ministry at Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston, Ill.At Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries, Rude led programs committed to expanding opportunities nationally in the ELCA for LGBTQ pastors. She has also served as youth outreach minister for The Night Ministry in Chicago, where she provided pastoral care, crisis response and advocacy in an interfaith and

The Pragmatism of the Liberal Arts Posted by: alex.reed / May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 By Roberta BrownOriginally published in 1999My lifelong commitment to the liberal arts took root in the fourth grade, when I met my classmate and dear life-long friend Sally. During that entire year, Sally rode her bike to my house, and after school, we both rode our bikes to hers. We read books on her neatly made bunk beds and I spent the night there as often as possible.  In junior high, Sally lugged her books

Welcoming First Cohort: Matt Leslie Posted by: Catherine Chan / June 29, 2020 Image: Matt Leslie (Image courtesy: Matt Leslie) June 29, 2020 Matt Leslie is pursuing the MSK degree in hopes of becoming a mental performance consultant.He shares about his passion and what he is most excited to learn in the MSK program. What is one fun fact about yourself? In addition to beginning graduate school at PLU, this year will be my first year as the Varsity Head Boys Basketball Coach at the Northwest

customer needs. The business world is replete with calls for design-centered innovation. But, how do you learn design principles, and how do you use them to pursue new opportunities? At Pacific Lutheran University, I sat down to find out with Jp Avila, Associate Professor of Art & Design and a co-founder of PLU’s Innovation Studies program. Avila received his M.F.A. in Visual Communication from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he has taught Design at PLU since 2004. He is legendary on

April 1, 2013 The Value of an International Education Professor Matt Monnot took a group of MBA students to Spain in 2012. Both undergraduate and graduate business programs are built on the opportunity to study away By Barbara Clements Denise Petryk ’12 knew that an MBA would help her in the running of her veterinary practice, but she wanted a bit more. She found that in the PLU MBA program, with its strong international flavor in its curriculum. “To travel internationally is always a good