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newest faculty member Kate Olson. Other master class leaders were: Greg Yasinitsky, Composer and Professor, Washington State University Patty Darling, Composer and Professor, Lawrence University Brad Goode, Professor, University of Colorado Boulder Drew Zaremba, Professor, University of Northern Colorado Topics covered specific to jazz included what it means to be a jazz musician, what a jazz composer does, best practices and techniques in jazz, and using a metronome to assist in developing your jazz

ethics, medical skills and theory, research theory and techniques, and foundations of personalized medicine. These courses are not just designed for medical school, they are designed to fit students interested in a variety of health science fields. Did the PNWU MAMS program also support your transition to medical school? It did! For example, faculty members and program alumni help MAMS students throughout the process by reading application essays and helping with interview prep. The medical school

it very easy for me to use Sakai to prepare learning experiences for my students that they can do on their own — listening, following musical scores, analyzing techniques. The biggest technical challenge in my field seems to be getting good audio while video conferencing. I am feeding sound from my speakers back into my microphone and then students are listening to that. It’s pretty unintelligible, so I am now resorting to having students do this listening to each other’s work prior to class and

ethics, medical skills and theory, research theory and techniques, and foundations of personalized medicine. These courses are not just designed for medical school, they are designed to fit students interested in a variety of health science fields. Follow Shelby Hatton to PNWU!Each year there are six seats reserved for qualified Lutes in Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences’ Master of Arts in Medical Sciences (MAMS) program. Shelby Hatton is one of many Lutes who have gone from PLU’s pre

taught – though most only taught one semester of Acting for Non Majors. It was not long before the department realized they wanted to keep her on to teach for BFA students. The wait lists for her classes were long and students were bringing her techniques to rehearsals and other acting classes. She had begun making her impact and could not be more thrilled. In total, she taught eight semesters of Acting I and Acting II along with Directing, Voice, and Auditions. During this time she was also given

CDs recording, editing, and production, and the members of the Lyric Brass quintet dedicated countless hours over the summer to the rehearsal and recording process. History of the group? The Lyric Brass quintet is the resident faculty brass ensemble at PLU.  The group is comprised of 5 members (Zach Lyman and Edward Castro, trumpets; Gina Gillie, horn; Rebecca Ford, trombone; and Paul Evans, tuba) all of whom are on faculty at PLU.  The Lyric Brass performs two concerts each year at PLU as part of

biography of Jean Paton, a middle-aged, twice-adopted, ex-social worker who pioneered the adoption reform movement, both here and abroad. After I finish that project, I plan to write a history of adoption records in global perspective. In 2009, I am looking forward to attending a business history conference in Milan, in anticipation of adding a comparative history component to my American Business and Economic History course. As I look to the future, I can be sure of one thing: having gone global, there

Browning collected himself between 2000-2006, Browning was able to peace together the creation and daily life of the Jews who lived and survived the slave labor camp of Starachowice, Poland. Because the work on the munitions and steel factory was considered critical to the war movement in Germany, relatively large numbers – 700 out of 2,400 who went into the camp – survived, even when the group – including young children – to Auschwitz, since they did not have to go through “selection” at the front

Chávez (1927-93), founder of the United Farm Workers of America, and labor leader and civil-rights activist Dolores Huerta (1930-) because of their important roles as leaders in the Latino/a civil-rights movement. Chávez came to PLU in March 1989 after a 36-day water-only fast designed to bring attention to the unsafe use of pesticides in fields and their dangerous impact on farmworkers and consumers. “Dolores and César’s commitment to social-justice issues, advocacy for underrepresented communities

hopes to found and lead a nonprofit that helps children of color discover secret talents through new opportunities. Lucas’s daughter dances at Sound Movement Arts Center—and joined the Franklin Pierce Junior Wrestling team. “She tried wrestling, did very well and ended up taking first at the state tournament,” Lucas says.  On top of being a full-time student, Lucas works full-time as a case manager at Comprehensive Life Resources, a community behavioral health clinic in Tacoma, helping those