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Calendar Spotlight Series Featured Stories Welcome Pursuing a graduate degree is more than adding letters after your name. Hear from the graduate-admission professionals who communicate daily with prospective students, locally and globally. Learn why those students choose to study at PLU — and what they gain from our distinct programs. Read More Circling the Heartbeat Open Books: A Poem Emporium is a hub for the poetry community, locally and nationwide. But to Billie Swift ’16, it’s so much more. Learn

project is the subject of a new episode of the History Channel show Modern Marvels, called “Panama Canal Supersized,” which aired in April. The canal project will be “one of the engineering wonders of the world,” just like the original canal, Krause said. “It’s the largest civil-engineering project in the world today and will double the shipping traffic over the current level when complete.” Krause said the project also: includes the largest gates ever designed and constructed (each weighing 8,000,000

for her for many reasons: there is a course offered on Ancient Greek which is important to studying the New Testament, Greece has such a rich religious history, CYA has a balance of structure and independence, and it fit perfectly with her major and minor. While in Athens, Erika was able to take classes in Modern Greek (which she was able to practice by going to cafés and talking to locals) and Ancient Greek, a monotheistic religion course, a religion class on Orthodox Christianity, a philosophy

. This affects primarily student projects in Nursing and health-related fields. 3. Changes for quality improvement (QI) projects (Nursing) Investigators who believe their projects to be QI should review this QI information page and take our diagnostic pre-survey through Mentor. Projects qualifying as QI will no longer routinely be reviewed by the PLU HPRB. QI projects—even those that will be presented or published—are not intended to contribute to generalizable knowledge, and as such are not

service work they perform. “I never really looked back,” she recalled. “I wanted to do exactly what I’m doing today.” Cohen said the support from the legendary coach and others means a lot, especially as a woman in her male-dominated field. She’s only the second female AD in UW history and the only current female AD in the Pac-12 Conference. Cohen said PLU was a perfect fit for her. She served as a graduate assistant, working primarily with the baseball team. She also helped coach the volleyball team

Canyon University in Arizona, and is now a junior at PLU.  Jonathan has studied trumpet primarily with his dad.  He has also studied with Gerald Webster (former WSU trumpet professor), Kurt Dupuis (principal trumpet of the President’s Own Marine Band), and Joe Burgstaller (trumpet professor at ASU).  Jonathan is majoring in Business and plays in the Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra, and the choir at PLU.  Jonathan does not have free time, but would enjoy it if he did. Devin Bianchi-RiveraDevin is a first

.  Walking to the supermarket means learning the life story of at least two people.” Reflection is a vital part of the study away experience and when Aubrey took a moment to look back at her time in Trinidad & Tobago, she realized that she had learned a lot about herself, “I am a woman.  I am white.  I am American.  I studied away in a country of predominately African, East Indian and Chinese roots.  I stood out amongst the crowd with my accent and my skin.  I was the minority, and yet, I still held a

talk about how nobody’s doing this work, and it should be done,” Hunt said. “We have the potential to contribute to modern cancer research, but we need collaboration—between historians, researchers; we need more people to take on this research and share information and collaborate. The faster we can gather evidence, the sooner we can exchange ideas.” She understands that collaboration is not so popular in academia—though it is a very PLU concept, in the classroom and out. We have the potential to

Ten Years of the Visiting Writer Series This year marks the tenth anniversary of PLU’s Visiting Writer Series, a program that brings several working writers to campus every academic year. Co-founders Rick Barot and Jason Skipper, the poetry and fiction professors respectively, were hired by the English Department partly for their experience in creating and running successful writers series at other universities. “We started on it the summer before we came to Tacoma. One of our first

EUPHONIUM BM Performance of at least two works of contrasting styles (concerto, etude, sonata, through composed original literature). Performance quality must be at or near that of a good conservatory student. All major and minor scales (all three forms) and arpeggios. Scales and arpeggios must be played 2 octaves from (concert pitch) low E to Bb, and one octave from B to Eb. Students with fourth valve will play all scales and arpeggios for any note in two octaves minimum. Two-octave chromatic scales