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education. ACTFL’s mission is to provide vision, leadership and support for quality teaching and learning of languages.As President of ACTFL, Dr. Yaden runs board meetings, writes for the organization, and advocates for language learning in Washington DC. She had also planned to travel to about 30 different national and international conferences. Many of these were either cancelled or moved online due to the pandemic. This meant that, instead of traveling around both the country and world, Dr. Yaden

. While at PLU I majored in communications with an emphasis in public relations and advertising and a minor in Religion. At the Red Cross I also help to plan and coordinate fundraisers, promote events, and work as a liaison with media. Volunteering at our home church in Norway, I am coordinating a trip to Israel, and work with media. My education at PLU has been so helpful. It’s opened doors and helped me utilize my skill set in a new country. Read Previous A generous couple Read Next Hebrew Idol

, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again. His work has appeared in Granta, Story, Ploughshares, Harper’s, The Paris Review and The New York Times Magazine, and has been included in five volumes of The Best American Essays. He also is the author of The Bill From My Father: A Memoir, and his new collection of essays, My Avant-Garde Education, was published in 2015. He has been a core faculty member in the MFA Writing

The Women’s Center at 25: Stories of Inspiration and Impact Posted by: Sandy Dunham / March 5, 2015 Image: People gather at the Women’s Center for a retreat. (PLU file photo) March 5, 2015 By Sandy Deneau DunhamPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 4, 2015)—Since its founding in 1990, Pacific Lutheran University’s Women’s Center has empowered women and their allies to become advocates for gender equity and social justice. Along the way, through education, counseling, mentoring and

me a little about the internship. What are you doing, what are you learning? As a Bio Tech at this refuge, I work under the supervision of the head biologist to catalyze hydrologic restoration for bird habitats, test the water (mainly salinity, conductivity, and temperature at various sites,) establish baseline vegetation data sets, network with land agency professionals, set up bird nest-monitoring technology, eradicate invasive species, build an outdoor education center, and work on wetland

and application in many disciplines from cooking to aerospace. Tell us a bit about your journey as an artist. How did you discover your vocation? Ebbinga: According to my parents I have been a creator since I was able to squish play dough. I find the most satisfaction, and learn more readily, when I am using my hands in concert with my brain and heart. My best classes all throughout my primary and secondary education were art and shop classes, or courses that had some creative hands-on component

family. As musicians, we spend most of our time in our isolated world of personal practice and rehearsals. To make connections with this piece to the greater campus community is all the more special since that is really what the liberal arts, and Lutheran Higher Education, is all about.” Tickets to the April 23 concert can be purchased online, over the phone (253-535-7411) and at the door: $8 general admission, $5 senior citizen and alumni, free for PLU & 18 and younger. The Lyric Brass Quintet is

-monitoring technology, eradicate invasive species, build an outdoor education center, and work on wetland delineation. What do you enjoy about your internship? I love this amalgam of scientific research and manual labor. There are plenty of chances to read and evaluate data, but it’s also truly satisfying to learn by physically living here. It may sound sentimentalized to say this; there’s something irreplaceable about waking up in nature, working outside, and listening to the outdoors. You’d be

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