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, China, Canada, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, South Korea and the United States. Her vocal and dramatic repertoire is unusually wide ranging; she is equally at home singing the music of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven as well as works by Mahler, Stravinsky, and living composers. Among her operatic roles are Der Komponist (Ariadne auf Naxos), Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte), Costanza (L’Isola Disabitata), Mao’s 2nd Secretary (Nixon in China), Adalgisa (Norma), Mercedes (Carmen), Zita (Gianni Schicchi
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dining commons and its other student-focused facilities are state-of-the-art. That gives McGinnis the flexibility to quickly create new – and delicious – menu items. Like Korean tacos. A student suggested the popular street food – a tortilla filled with marinated pork, cabbage and ssamjang sauce – be added to the University Center Dining Common’s menu. “So, we Googled it,” McGinnis said. “And two days later we’re serving it.” They take comment cards really seriously, said Sarah Sandgren ’11, a
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Vermeulen, will be packing their bags and heading out for Antarctica Thursday, by way of New Zealand. Once in New Zealand, the pair, along with three other researchers and a climbing guide, will be studying ice and rocks for clues into long-term global warming that has been happening for thousands of years. In New Zealand, the pair will be gearing up for their month-long research expedition. On Nov. 29th, fully decked out with cold-weather parkas, they will head out to McMurdo Station – the main
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August 3, 2012 Immigrant described as ‘crawling’ causes professor to take a closer look By Chris Albert, University Communications Adela Ramos will never forget the day when, as a graduate student at Columbia University in New York City, she was reading a “New York Times” article about a Mexican immigrant who was described as crawling under a fence to make it into the United States. The word “crawling” struck Ramos as an odd way to describe a person crossing the border. People aren’t typically
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place to begin to live again, to build new relationships, to heal the wounds of the past. Yet the struggle to survive and provide for their families still persists. Screening & Ice Cream What: Film screening of Sweet Dreams, followed by Q&A with director Lisa Fruchtman and an ice-cream social. When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28. Where: Anderson University Center Regency Room, PLU campus. Sponsors: The Kurt Mayer Endowment for Holocaust Studies, PLU Holocaust and Genocide Studies, PLU School of Arts
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Christmas Concert history in celebration of its 125th Anniversary.As in previous years, the concerts will be performed in Portland, Seattle and at PLU. But this year, the series will culminate with a special one-night-only 125th Anniversary Gala Concert on Dec. 11. The gala concert will be headlined by New York-based Metropolitan Opera soprano and PLU alumna Angela Meade ‘01, winner of the 2012 Beverly Sills Artist Award from the Metropolitan Opera and the 2011 Richard Tucker Award. “Those who haven’t
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(approximately 1600 BCE) to the Middle Ages (around 500 CE). The reasons for this are historical. In the early centuries CE, global climate change drove many new peoples into the Eastern and then Western Roman empires. This influx eventually brought enough instability that the Western Empire – Europe – shattered into many small, unstable kingdoms. They never forgot the grandeur of the Roman Empire, even as they lost the skill to build grandiose monuments, to write hair-raising literature, and to enforce
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? A huge learning curve. I was terrified and excited, especially working with such amazing people. And writing for the human voice — I had sung in choirs but opera was a whole new musical world. It was very humbling in a lot of ways. I studied a lot, listened to a lot of singers, wrote a lot, shared with Stephen, wrote again, shared again. The opera was workshopped twice with the singers and that was the biggest education for me because I was getting immediate feedback: “Can you hold that note
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alumni at Alaska Airlines corporate headquarters. Opportunities like this are all about making connections, and it’s reflected in our new name: Alumni & Student Connections — the integration of the former Alumni office and Career office that forms a dynamic hub for mentoring, career development and vocation for alumni and students. “This may seem like an obvious pairing — alumni and student careers,” said PLU President Allan Belton. “But the fact is that most small colleges don’t do it well because
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their course plans in one way or another. But just as teaching has changed, so has learning. The new Zoom classroom environment has required students to make changes in how they normally learn and participate in class settings. It’s important to note that while some found a solid foothold in online learning, many struggled to find ways to adapt that click for them. The learning process is just as varied as the teaching process, it’s not the same for everyone, and some may be more flexible than
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