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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

BJUG DAY: Q&A with Dr. Elizabeth A. Barton Posted by: Silong Chhun / October 28, 2021 October 28, 2021 By Veronice CrakerMarketing & CommunicationsPLU is creating a campus experience that helps our students thrive by supporting resources and experiential programs that cultivate the mind, body and spirit of each of our students. After all, it takes a healthy Lute to build a healthy community. Many of these resources are supported by our very own students, who understand that it takes a community

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

touching this jaguar was the experience of a lifetime. Since returning to the United States, I often find myself evoking this deeply satisfying moment, when the value of a life was contained in a touch. And I find myself wondering what happens to this sense of the presence of animals, this moment of contact with other creatures, inside the academy. The touching of the jaguar in the Mexican jungle dramatizes for me the absence of the animal as an animal in our universities. Despite important pockets of

training and education in the professions which modern society requires” [my italics]?To date, we have begun discussions about new programs in which courses offered by faculty in the professional schools would be combined with courses traditionally offered by faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professors in the professional schools are also being drawn into foundational courses, such as the Freshman experience. Potential cross-disciplinary programs that result from such creative overlaps are

a more advanced position, the pay is equally competitive. One study found that MBA graduates can increase their salaries by an average of $36,742. Pacific Lutheran University’s master’s programs in business have a global internship built into the cost, giving you the real-world experience you’ll need to tackle current and emerging challenges in the business world. The future of business is global. Let us equip you to be globally minded in your MBA! Master of Science in Kinesiology From

; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 May 20, 2024

become a pianist, I think I’d have much more difficulty enjoying playing. But now I play very often, and I really enjoy it. Whenever I’m stressed, or feel stuck with my ideas, I play the piano and immediately feel happy and inspired.” Still, she says, her early educational experience is a big reason she remains so committed to personal mentorship. “Working in the United States, I appreciate being able to focus more fully on what I really want,” she says. “I’m pretty satisfied with how my career has