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newspaper as a bullet storm. Shumaker retired from the military in 2013 and says that during his 12 years of service, each deployment was an experience of its own. “Those are significant life events,” Shumaker said. “When you are saying goodbyes to your family for a year or more, it really sticks in your head.” First Deployment: Afghanistan, April 2004 (Duration: 12 months) The most memorable event of this deployment, Shumaker recalled, was an assignment on the day Afghanistan held its very first

years. When I first started teaching, I had the goal of being named Montana Teacher of the Year. The goal wasn’t to gain recognition, but to be a really great teacher. To me, past Montana Teachers of the Year represented a category of excellence that every teacher should try to work toward. These awards are a demonstration of the hard work and effort I’ve put into my teaching practice, efforts to transform learning for my students. How will you remember the experience of being honored, along with

this choir — including our fearless leader and director, Richard Nance. This trip was the perfect way to ring in my final semester at PLU. See a snapshot of the choir’s tour below. Read Previous Pageantry and Protests: PLU students experience ‘messiness of democracy’ at President Trump’s inauguration Read Next PLU alumnus Scott Foss ’91 serves as a top paleontologist for the Department of the Interior COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad

they went through was a chance I never thought I would have.” Visiting the Minidoka site helped Kitajo connect with that family history he had yet to engage. It’s an experience Kitajo says is common with younger generations of pilgrimage participants, especially those who travel with former incarcerees. Kitajo says the pilgrimage often stirs memories and brings long-hidden narratives to the surface. “Overall, there’s just so much trauma for many individuals — not just survivors, but sometimes their

field, which is rare, we’re using longer shotgun mics to keep our distance and bringing the proper protective equipment. PLU: Are there specific challenges you’re having to navigate to produce segments and stories?? Plog: It’s hard to tell compelling stories about the human experience when you aren’t having human interaction. We’re putting more of a burden on our sources to collect sound and record scenes as they happen, since we can’t be present to record those scenes ourselves. Something KNKX

Additive Mixing, that was exhibited in the mathematical art exhibition at the 2021 Joint Mathematics Meetings and featured in the Feb 2021 issue of Math Horizons.Math for Everyone Math means memorization and facts for many, but it wasn’t Sklar’s experience growing up. Instead, she was taught “new math” in the 1970s, which included enjoyable hands-on experiences exploring math’s creative and problem-solving aspects. “We used to play with ‘string pictures,’” she says, “It wasn’t until I went to college

also knows how to listen to others and engage thoughtfully. Reyes dedicated herself to the study of social work, and the PLU program’s blend of social justice, egalitarianism, pluralism and compassion for the oppressed resonated with her. Inspired by her personal experience, Reyes spent her senior year immersed in a research-intensive capstone project that examined the correlation between support and graduation rates for teens experiencing homelessness. “I found that implementing trauma-informed

Village in 2023. The course is going to be about leading lives that matter. Holden Village is a great place for students to experience a different way of life. Rude: Holden Village is a retreat center in the North Cascades. It has Lutheran roots, and is open to people of all faith traditions. It is really remote. You can’t drive there, you have to take a boat and are then picked up by a school bus. There is no cellphone reception, and students do not have access to wifi. In this remote setting, people

of college I was extremely sick,” Larios recalls. “I had three surgeries in 10 months and countless emergency room visits. Six months before I left for Namibia I was finally healthy. It was going to be the redeeming experience I needed, so having it canceled was really disappointing.” While Larios was only in Namibia from January to March of 2020, she found a marimba band at a local private school through an advertisement in the local newspaper and went on to teach and perform with them. After

surely have a lot to say about female experience chose static youth over growth. When sharing her interpretation of Austen’s heroine, Cracknell describes her as “out of place and somehow out of time” (Indiewire). This compelling view is not realized in the film. Cracknell makes Anne Elliot very much of this—our—time in the choice to freeze Anne in her first bloom. This choice must be paired with the movie’s erasure of Mrs. Smith, Anne’s thirty-year-old friend. In the adaptation of a novel that