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Backstage with Violinist Svend Rønning Posted by: Kate Williams / February 23, 2018 February 23, 2018 By Tacoma Youth Chorus, December 2017 This week we sat down with Dr. Rønning to talk about everything from Rick Steves to Rachmaninoff. Read on! How did you first get started playing the violin? What drew you to the instrument? My mother tells me that she noticed that I loved to sing from a very early age. So, when I was five years old, she enrolled me at the Suzuki Institute in Seattle. I
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things I enjoy, like seeing friends or having time to myself in my room to watch tv, just having time set aside for normal hobbies. That has helped a lot. Also, I keep a routine schedule so I stay on track with work and school. How is your capstone on autonomous cars going? We are making an autonomous RC car. It uses sensors to know its location. Our process started last year. I started work with Professor Caley early in order to get more done. Over the summer, my partner on the project and I worked
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Vines for six hours straight and danced through the halls into the wee hours of the morning. A pivotal moment came early on the third day. After drawing up blueprints for an algorithm—which Matthew said they “lovingly” called the Optimal Node Interconnected Objectives Network, or ONION for short—they waited and watched as the code they had staked their entire paper on refused to run. They put sad music on and took a nap. When they woke, they realized they had enough evidence to continue their
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Parking The Campus Safety office offers many services, including vehicle registration, parking permits, escorts, and emergency response. Students may obtain a parking permit from Campus Safety in Harstad Hall (entrance is on north side, lower level). Click here for a campus map showing reserved student parking and public parking lots on campus. Because graduate classes are scheduled in late afternoon and early evening hours, it is recommended that students leave their last class and walk to parking
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play in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007. And our soccer programs will travel to England this summer, the first international experience for an athletic program since the early 1990s. And finally, several graduates of 2015 have taken bold action to address issues of lasting national importance including Black Lives Matter, the It’s on Us Campaign to end sexual assault, and immigration reform. *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous Blog Post: Caps and gowns and tassels
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image of the new library,” the Landskrona, Sweden, native had to promise to stay blond, and to never lose her accent (check and check, by the way). In the Archives with Kerstin Ringdahl PLU’s strict dress code prohibited her, along with every other woman on campus, from wearing pants. And some things have not changed. Referencing an early photo of the Mortvedt Library, Ringdahl laughs: “You can see we still have the same chairs and tables.” As PLU celebrates its 125th anniversary, Ringdahl is
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language has been taught at the school since its very beginning. Norwegian Academic ProgramsAudun Toven came to PLU in 1967 to teach Norwegian, and in 1976 a Norwegian major was established. When Janet Rasmussen arrived in 1977, she and Toven created the interdisciplinary Scandinavian Studies program. Many of the majors in Scandinavian Studies study the Norwegian language. Since 1984, more than 600 students have taken Norwegian language classes at PLU.Study Abroad AgreementsSince the early 1970s, PLU
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patient’s mother put her on her current path. The woman had been reading about vaccines on the Internet, and she was worried that they might be harmful to her child. McFadden’s need to convince her otherwise went beyond her professional obligation; her aunt and uncle wore leg braces and needed crutches thanks to polio, a disease they had contracted in the early 1950s before the introduction of Jonas Salk’s vaccine. “It was a really challenging conversation,” McFadden recalled. “I firmly believe that
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Financial Aid (FAFSA) is not available. Alternatively private educational loans are available, which may be lower interest than graduate federal financial aid. To explore alternative educational loan options participants are encouraged to start with their own private banking agency to investigate educational loan options. Additional resources are available below.AWSP Grant Application Open: Early December Application Closed: In March Grant Writing Workshop: TBA Application Link: Washington State
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fortunate as the Mayers and was sent to Sachsenhausen. I had never met a survivor of the Holocaust before Adam. The suffering that Adam had to go through because of his blood and beliefs is atrocious. It makes me very angry that anyone could hurt someone as nice as Adam.” Mainz The Mayer Family’s First Apartment “At the end of second grade, sometime in late 1937 or early 1938, my dad was suspicious of some kind of government action against Jews. We were living in an apartment house in Mainz and after I
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