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Composition major at Pacific Lutheran University. And his original composition, Fanfare Giocoso,  premiered at Town Hall Seattle at 7:30 p.m. on October 24 as the opening number of LUCO’s first concert of 2014-15. Whatley was one of three winners of LUCO’s Fanfares competition, which was designed to provide outstanding young composers with an opportunity to create a piece for a full symphony orchestra and have it performed. (He also won $500 and will have his prize presented onstage at the concert

Highline Community College in Des Moines, Wash. But it was the music program that eventually drew Pogue to PLU. When he arrived at PLU, he immediately tried out and won on a slot in the prestigious Choir of the West.  Pogue had thought he might have to wait a year to earn a spot on the choir. But when the choir’s leader, Prof. Richard Nance, called him with the good news, Pogue said he was so overwhelmed he had to pull over on the freeway to let his good fortune sink in. Pogue’s advice to other

Scientists in Parks Fellowship – National Park Service Posted by: nicolacs / December 8, 2021 December 8, 2021 The Scientists in Parks (SIP) Fellows program is now accepting applications from current upper-level undergraduate and graduate students for summer 2022 opportunities with the National Park Service. Each opportunity with the SIP Program affords a distinct and memorable experience with projects that vary based on location, focus, and complexity. This year’s projects include tracking

Katie Garro ‘11 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Gianni LaFaveInitially, Katie Garro ‘11 didn’t think much of Pacific Lutheran University.She viewed it as an opportunity to continue school with friends, but also to stay close to home. This perspective changed when she joined the Diversity Center as a Rieke Scholar. The Rieke Scholarship is a grant-based scholarship for PLU students that are dedicated to change and knowledge to society. With her time now committed to

October 28, 2009 Much more than event planners Student Involvement and Leadership isn’t just a department that plans events, but rather a partner and active participant in learning, in supporting the complete college student. That couldn’t be truer than at Pacific Lutheran University and a lot of that has to do with the leadership of Eva Johnson ’95, director of Student Involvement and Leadership. She’s been a leader in integrating how the department integrates learning into campus life, as

Paid Engineering Intern Positions, Tacoma Water Posted by: nicolacs / February 6, 2023 February 6, 2023 Are you looking to apply and grow the skills you are learning in school in a professional environment while serving your community with clean, reliable water? If you answered “yes,” be sure to apply to Tacoma Water’s engineering internship opportunities! Tacoma Water has four engineering internship positions available for interested candidates to join our System and Asset Planning, Treatment

, who this semester moved to Tingelstad Residence Hall – or T-stad as it is called by students – for a residence advisor position. Normally that’d be no big deal, except that Ordal faced Tingelstad head-to-head in the second round of the UnPLUgged tournament. The tournament is a yearlong challenge in which eight campus residence halls compete to see which is using the least energy – with the loser knocked out of the competition. After the first round last fall, the entire campus shed nearly 48,000

in St. Louis, one of only two offered by the affiliate institution of PLU’s program. “I was shocked when I got the email notifying me,” Anderson said. “I’m most excited to discover what engineering extracurriculars I’ll be able to be a part of.” PLU partners with Washington University, as well as Columbia University in New York City, for its dual-degree engineering program, also known as 3-2 engineering. The program provides students with the opportunity to combine a liberal arts education with

an Act Six Scholarship. PLU is one of five universities affiliated with the program that offers leadership training and scholarships for emerging urban and community leaders.“One of my mentors in high school was an Act Six recipient,” Jones said. “But they left my freshman year, so I was never introduced to  PLU or Act Six until my senior year.”  After learning more about the university located just 30 miles south of him, he decided it was the school for him. Aside from having the major he wanted

hunkering down at home in Montana with husband Chris, kids Bryer and Jase, and Jethro the dog while working for an EdTech company supporting educators across the country as they transition to distance learning.As manager of Learning & Development for Virtual Instructional Coaching, she already was virtually coaching school-based teachers and other instructional coaches. When schools began closing and teachers were thrown into distance learning because of the coronavirus, her expertise got a lot more