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500-foot Chihuly Glass Bridge links the Museum of Glass with the Washington State History Museum and the nearby Tacoma Art Museum. Frank and Jill enjoy visiting the museum’s “Hot Shop,” where they can see glass artists at work. The Museum of Glass offers a unique look into glass-blowing with its “Hot Shop.” They also enjoy walking along the bridge, which was conceived by artist and Tacoma native Dale Chihuly. Jill and Frank love getting a bit too eat at Masa on 6th Ave. Masa (10.8 miles from

Concert Hall on Nov. 11. Please see this link for a full listing of Veterans Day activities at PLU. Working in aviation as a Black Hawk helicopter mechanic crew chief, U.S. Army Sgt. Shumaker interacted directly with soldiers in the field, transferring them in and out, bringing supplies and locating enemies from the air for the front forces. He was part of history. “I wanted to be able to have the biggest effect possible,” said Shumaker, 38, who’s now a junior studying Political Science at Pacific

in Tacoma, where students of color make up more than 60 percent of the population, more than 80 percent of the district’s teachers are white. Egenes has her students at Lincoln explore historical issues in education through an equity lens. Some of the topics they’ve researched include the history of Native American schools, the link between historic neighborhood redlining and school segregation, bilingual education and more. She asks her students to assess their own learning styles and ask

year really motivated both students and faculty, and we were able to bring that motivation into the classroom through applied projects. Faculty were able to bring these issues into discussions of literature, history, philosophy, ethics, and environmental equity. How have faculty, staff and students responded to that challenge? I’m continually amazed at how my colleagues pivoted so quickly to online classrooms, how they spent the entire summer learning very different kinds of pedagogies and

customers having to go to the store and talk to someone face-to-face — that impact was important to me,” he says. NETFLIX AND NO TIME TO CHILL A couple of weeks after his final interview, Ronquillo was sitting in a history class when he received a phone call. It was his recruiter asking him how the interview went. Ronquillo says he was disappointed, initially believing this was simply a check-in call, and not the offer he had been hoping to receive. But after listening to Ronquillo’s experience, the

standards. “Now that more people of color occupy places of prestige, the topic is becoming more prominent.”   Her capstone explores the U.S. history of Black hair discrimination, the mental and physical risks of conforming to Eurocentric beauty standards and hazards of discriminatory workplace, school and social work policies—along with promising developments such as state and federal CROWN acts. The 2023 CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Workplace Research Study found that