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PLU to Host Holiday Events Throughout December Posted by: Zach Powers / November 30, 2015 Image: Christmas tree lighting in Red Square at PLU on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. (PLU Photo/John Froschauer) November 30, 2015 By Matthew Salzano '17PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 30, 2015)- It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas at Pacific Lutheran University. Throughout its 125-year history, PLU has developed numerous holiday pastimes that honor a variety of traditions, cultures

series of movies that were being developed out of the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy. The rest is history. “The entire experience was fantastic,” said Perry of his time working with Peter Jackson and the Lord of the Rings creative team. Not only did he help the Ents attack the tower, but he helped the lighting team with Gollum, and he created some of the larger battle scenes. Perry is working for the next six months in Vancouver, B.C., on special computer generated effects on the next “Final Destination

U.S. defeated Canada in overtime, with only one day on the ice before the tournament started. “They had a confidence and a belief and tenacity and sense of mission of purpose,” Hacker said. “And I think that overcame all the traditional impediments that would keep a team able to perform on the world stage in a sold-out rink 24 hours later.” So why does Hacker stay at PLU, especially when she has a full-time job training history-making Olympic athletes?  “I must get asked that about 400 times a

-foot facility boasts an innovative closed-loop, geothermal energy system to create a sustainable, energy-efficient building. Multiple benches contain different growing spaces, with infrastructure that can help regulate temperatures and light. Dr. Romey Haberle, one of Laurie-Berry’s colleagues, maintains a collection demonstrating evolutionary plant history and diversity. Cacti, carnivorous plants, corpse flowers and tropical trees all flourish within the greenhouse.  Angles and answersLaurie

continue to teach for another year?“What are they going to put on your headstone? ‘Mark worked one extra year?’” a friend asked him during that time in the summer of 1996. It was “damn good advice,” Carrato remembers. He let his law school deferral go, continued teaching in Japan for another year, and then traveled the world for nearly 16 months, ending up in Ecuador teaching again.  Now a foreign service officer at the helm of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Power

admitted students.The challenges with FAFSA this year: There were some access issues due to pauses on the form. The number of those pauses has gone down significantly, so if you’ve been waiting to get started on (or finish) your FAFSA, go ahead and try again! Colleges and universities will not receive FAFSA applicant information until the first half of March. This means an already delayed financial aid process has been pushed back even further. PLU has a goal to send our first batch of financial aid

informed.  The upshot is that this election year, we’re divided not only by political party and ideology, but also increasingly by identity.  This history is being written not just in the nation’s capital, but also in small and large communities across the nation and etched in the lives of ordinary people. I encourage you to listen carefully to people outside of your immediate circle; take this opportunity in your life to think broadly and take in multiple perspectives. I encourage you to talk about

Ask The more prep you do in advance of a meeting with a new contact, the more smoothly it will go. Consider these questions, along with those based on your research into a field. Depending on your career level, your questions may be more or less specific. A Day in the Life How did you enter this field? What has your career path been like? Do you use any of your graduate training in your job, and if so, how? On a typical day (or week) in this position, what do you do? What are the toughest problems

to do so with a more nuanced and even deeper sense of hope and possibility about the future. Americans, Norwegian Americans, and Norwegians are, if nothing else, a resolute and determined, some might even say stubborn, people; and it is a one of our great strengths. Last Saturday, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg described July 22 as “the worst peace time day in Norway’s history.” His comment awakened memories of Norway’s dark hours during WWII, days when America and Norway stood together

collections agencies to purchase unpaid medical debt for a fraction of the cost and helps folks run crowdfunding campaigns to settle their medical debt. For Young, part of the appeal of working with RIP Medical Debt was the work the organization is doing in Washington and nearby states. “They own about 15k of debt in Washington, and significantly more in Idaho and Montana, so we are working to raise money to settle as much of this as possible,” Young says.  Young’s students worked with a representative