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being in awe of the advanced high school choir when I heard them sing for us. I also remember enjoying singing our collaborative performance of Bill Withers’s “Lean on Me.” Someone encouraged me to sing out and sway with them. When it comes to singing choral music, I love the feeling that what I contribute as a singer feeds into a collective sound and that what I sing influences other members of the choir just as much as they influence me. Why do you think choral music has stood the test of time and

scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 The Passing of Bryan Dorner June 4, 2024 Student athlete Vinny D’Onofrio ’24 excelled in biology and chemistry at PLU June 4, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community May 22, 2024

places cultural symbols and color from nature. “Even in the Seattle winter, humming birds flash and scoot for nectar from my rosemary bush. Traffic lights illuminate the night, demanding attention as I bike through the city,” Schwartzkopf explains. “With intentional placement, these visual messages imply function, trigger associations, and call for exploration.” Schwartzkopf is fast becoming well known in the ceramics world. Ceramics Monthly, a national publication, featured her alongside her partner

, faculty, staff, and alumni. Wild Hope has been awarded a two-year NETVUE Program development grant from the Council for Independent Colleges. What will you seek to accomplish with this grant?Wild Hope Center for VocationSee how PLU is providing opportunities for faculty and students. This institute will assist faculty members and staff in their intentional efforts to infuse vocation into their courses, their mentoring work with students, and their own discernment of their calling to teach. The

. Activities will run from 6:30 until 10:30 p.m. This event is the first of its kind for the Museum of Glass, as part of an effort to increase student engagement with its neighboring universities and colleges. A current student I.D. is required for entry into “Gather,” and each student is invited to bring one, non-college guest age 18 or older. Faculty members are also welcome to attend, with university or college I.D. Attendees can RSVP to the event through the museum’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com

concerts also served as the exclusive world premiere of prolific Hollywood film composer J.A.C. Redford’s A Christmas Invitation as well as PLU Professor of Music Gregory Youtz’s latest composition, “December: A Meditation on Advent.” Staying true to PLU tradition, the concert also included traditional Christmas favorites and festive carols sung by the audience.A Christmas InvitationAccess the official concert program, read about featured musicians and more at plu.edu/Christmas. OPB Broadcasts Thursday

be accepting applications for the 2024 cohort from October 16 to November 30. For Dumeni, Wells and Weiss, the exchange went well beyond the classroom—both visits included an immersion into the hosts’ customs, cultures and even families. “This isn’t just about delivery,” said Weiss. “It feels truly collaborative.” Brianna Wells ’11 talks to third graders in her class at Clover Creek Elementary in Pierce County, Washington. Read Previous Lydia Flaspohler ’25 and Ryan Fisher ’24 dive into the

spending years working as a journalist in both Canada and Washington state. He finished the program in 2016, 13 years after receiving his diagnosis. Drews was living in the U.S. in 2003, working in Port Townsend for the Peninsula Daily News, when one of his spinal vertebrae came apart. “When I felt my vertebrae and accompanying back spasm it was sort of like a blunt knife going into my back,” Drews said. Multiple myeloma is a cancer that starts in the plasma cells, which are mostly found in bone marrow

populated into the Sakai Gradebook. Gradebook Every PLU course can benefit from utilization of the Sakai Gradebook, which allows students and instructors online access to grades. Individual Gradebook items can be entered directly into the Gradebook or populated from tools like Assignments or Tests & Quizzes. In order for the Gradebook to provide students and instructors with an accurate assessment of students’ progress in a course, all graded items/activities should be represented in the gradebook

to see Frosty Westering, so I remember watching many of the games from the sidelines. They were so awesome. And to be actually playing football for the university now is amazing.” A biology major with hopes of becoming an orthopedic surgeon, Brett, 20, said he doesn’t run into his cousins much, unless it’s a chance meeting in the UC while grabbing lunch, as happened last fall during this interview, when Aaron and Kari bumped into him. “If anything, I’d like to see more of them,” he said. Linnea