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workshop and clubhouse where students drop in and test out ideas, improvise and hone their craft. It is evident, too, when speaking with PLU Assistant Professor of Theater Amanda Sweger, who begins her second year at PLU teaching theater lighting and design. It is clear she looks at this type of collaboration in the same way a natural science professor in Rieke Science Center might look at a student–faculty research project. It is for this reason Sweger is so quick to let the students learn the light

find Washington state and Tacoma. The children have all been in the United States for various stretches of time, from less than a year to more than three years. Some were originally resettled in Tacoma, while others were invited to move by Bantu families already in Tacoma. Those families came from Texas, Utah and even New York as part of a “second migration,” Fisher said. Despite the tutoring obstacles, the experience has been extremely rewarding, Baumer said. The younger children are adorable and

and field gear and head off on snowmobiles to our agreed-upon work locations. Typically, we would work in two groups of three. Michael’s and my team would climb mountains rising up to 2,000 feet above the ice surface to collect samples from glacial deposits. Due to difficult travel conditions across rock and snow, most days we would walk less than five miles. The second team would spend the day on snowmobiles dragging an ice-penetrating radar system to identify features beneath the ice surface

estates and businesses, but none so much as Hermann Goering, Hitler’s second in command, who decorated his estate with thousands of pieces of stolen art. It’s estimated that as much as 20 percent, with estimates ranging as high as 30 percent, of all the art treasures in Europe were stolen by the Nazis during WWII, Mathews said. Now, 70 years later, some 100,000 pieces are still missing, she noted. Families, including one with a Tacoma connection, have been trying for decades to get back artwork stolen

uncertain and at times uncomfortable about being the minority, to instead change focus on being in relationships with their learners, the teachers and staff, local families, our native drivers, the domestic help and others they meet during the two months in a country,” she said. Weiss will be returning to Namibia next year, again under the Fulbright program, to help develop a national educational program that will assist second-year teachers in that country. The responsibility, she laughed, “sort of has

, they are ready to see what else the literacy center can offer. They’ve begun collaborating with faculty members in PLU’s Division of Natural Sciences on STEM support. They’ve connected with the university’s Center for Community Engagement and Service to offer adult English as a Second Language programming. They also are working with other long-running PLU programs that are connected with Keithley and Washington, like Big Buddies. “This is an important collaboration between Parkland and PLU,” Rogers

workshop and clubhouse where students drop in and test out ideas, improvise and hone their craft. It is evident, too, when speaking with PLU Assistant Professor of Theater Amanda Sweger, who begins her second year at PLU teaching theater lighting and design. It is clear she looks at this type of collaboration in the same way a natural science professor in Rieke Science Center might look at a student–faculty research project. It is for this reason Sweger is so quick to let the students learn the light