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, even with a smile. The worst reaction is when people pretend that they don’t exist.” The theme of individual responsibility reappeared this February during the Wang Center symposium on global health. Stephen Lewis challenged his listeners to not become hardened against the daily news feed of children dying, women being mistreated or the desecration of the environment. Lewis is the former United Nations AIDS envoy to Africa. He is currently the professor of global health to the Mailman School of
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green millet, the grain is a high-protein food staple and more nutritionally dense than rice. The National Science Foundation and other funding sources support the project. “Although millet is a culturally and nutritionally important food in Asia and Africa, it’s not commonly grown in western agriculture, so there’s not a lot of research,” Laurie-Berry says. A similar process of genetic experimentation refined rice production around 50 years ago. “After we figure out which genes control yield, the
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CHOIR OF THE WEST UNIVERSITY CHORALE UNIVERSITY SINGERS OPERA
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Lutheran Tradition.Learn more about Reformation events at PLU11:15 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Lagerquist Concert Hall Dr. Paul Tegels, University Organist at PLU Mr. David C. Horton, Director of Music Ministries at Faith Lutheran in Redmond, Wash. Hymn Festival: 500 Years of Singing45 minutes of celebrating the Lutheran singing tradition, lead by the Choir of the West, brass, piano, and the mighty Gottfried and Mary Fuchs organ in Lagerquist Concert Hall in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center on the Pacific
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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
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Change Title Choir of the West University Chorale University Singers Knight’s Chorus Choral Union Opera Program Chapel Choir
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PLU receives the Senator Paul Simon Award for campus internationalization, the first and only private school in the West to receive the honor.
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1992. At PLU, Nance conducts the Choir of the West, Choral Union, and teaches classes in choral conducting. Nance holds bachelors and masters degrees from West Texas State University and the Doctor of Musical Arts from Arizona State University. He has studied conducting with Hugh Sanders, Douglas McEwen and David Stocker, and composition with Joseph Nelson and Randall Shinn. Nance is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and has held many state and divisional offices
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anthropology labs, collaborative learning spaces, a map room and refurbished faculty offices. Mary Baker Russell Music Center with the acoustically acclaimed Lagerquist Concert Hall and the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ, the largest all-mechanical pipe organ in a West Coast university. Distinctive high-tech Language Resource Center, providing computer, audio and visual tools for learning foreign languages. Rieke Science Center, with its nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, the first of its kind at a
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September 1, 2009 I never thought I’d study abroad five times and graduate on time When Andy Guinn ’09 came to PLU, the extent of his international travels was a single trip to Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas. That trip was just one week. Considering where he’s been since then – and the amount of time he’s been away – that hardly seems like a big deal. Since Andy arrived at PLU, he’s studied in Italy (twice), Tanzania, South Africa – plus a combined trip to Argentina
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