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201, called “Value Creation in the Global Environment,” is designed to introduce students to the many aspects of business – from financial accounting and operations to marketing. By design, it covers a broad swathe. But that doesn’t mean students spend all their time with their nose in a book. Hardly. “I thought the best way to conduct the class was to have the students apply what they are reading to a real idea for a business,” said Carol Ptak, distinguished executive in residence. “I have been

, 10 months. Life has seemingly come full circle for the performing arts major, who after appearing in a number of plays after graduating from Pacific Lutheran University in 2000, decided in 2008 that it was time to take the plunge and see if he could make it in New York City. So with no prospects and only the promise of a blow up mattress on a friend’s living room in Queens, Hobson left his wife behind and took the risk. And that make all the difference for the Puyallup native. Within a few weeks

actual dancing was quite different from solo to solo. I then worked with the dancers to add nuance and to emphasize certain elements of their dancing.” “The real work of creating a dance is how the specific movements are arranged. For example, a solo is very different from a duet or a trio or a large group. A group of dancers dancing the same movement, at the same time, facing the same direction, is very different than a group of dancers performing completely different movement. So, after working

Portland for two sold-out Portland Piano International recitals, listened to Burton play Bach’s Prelude & Fugue in E-flat Major, BWV876. We caught up with Burton, recipient of the PLU Music and Bertha Gilbertson Endowed Piano Scholarships, during gap year in her hometown of Camas, Wash. What did you do right after graduation? I spent most of my summer doing Chinese translation work and researching graduate piano programs in China online. In the end, I had tennis elbow from all the computer time and an

, who was studying toddlers and words. “We’d have them in a sort of one-way mirror room watching them play with toys,” he recalled, “I got to see real research as a freshman. It was cool … to see these 18-month-olds with such a varying range of skill, but all very intelligent, finding out they’re learning like 150 words a day.” He also attended Western Psychology Association conferences and “got a real sense of what academic research and publication and the journey of a professor was like.” Bell

Tegels, organ, and PLU’s Choir of the West directed by Richard Nance. The idea of perspective is explored through two compositional views of the Prodigal’s humility in his return: Debussy with piano, and Arthur Sullivan’s oratorio, performed with organ and Choir of the West. The two versions give the same perspective from different compositional voices. Jim Brown, director, explains the differences. “Sullivan (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame) is a real Victorian era compositional voice. There are moments

than students stuck with weather closures. Reisberg said, having that option, along with the immediate chat functions, provided access to his class for a student suffering medical issues. Without it, they would have had to withdraw from the course for medical reasons. This way, they were able to participate, learn and collaborate in real time with their classmates and instructor. This is different than distance learning though, Reisberg said. “A lot of distance learning doesn’t offer any

. Donwen says her friend worked on the website “at a cost that was really reasonable to a small business.” Between her classroom training and built connections, Donwen also credits her time as a student-athlete for helping her lead her staff.  “Being involved with my teammates, that really reflects today in my leadership with my employees at my store,” she said. “I treat them more like we’re a team. I’m not your boss and I don’t like being called your boss. I’m your captain, I’m your leader. I will

stage, undergraduate students are given the opportunity to perform in roles that would usually be held for graduate students in larger programs. “They’re creating their roles, really, in real time,” said Brown, the vocal studies chair, “which is really exciting.” Ally Atwood and Katie Beck have the tremendous task of playing Cai Yan, alongside understudy Marissa Moultrie. Senior Sarah Martin, who plays Cai Yan, said it was “an honor and privilege to bring these characters to life for the very first

began the lecture by explaining that as a concept and even as a policy, “no means no” is not new. The recent development, Sill told the audience, is government beginning to take notice and action. Yes means yes is not a new consent standard. It is significant because this is the first time that a governmental agency has mandated that universities use ‘yes means yes,’ or what’s called ‘affirmative consent.’ The first notable ‘yes means yes’ law was passed at a university in 1993, so this is not