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Summer 2021 Benson Research Fellows Announced By Michael Halvorson, ’85. The Benson Program in Business and Economic History is pleased to announce the selection of three student-faculty research teams for Summer 2021. The fellowships are selected by the Innovation Studies steering committee and funded through the generous support of Dale E.… May 2, 2021 Benson Family Summer Research FellowshipBenson FellowsBusiness and Economic HistoryDale E. Benson

Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ A Q&A With Natalie Burton ’13 By Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications Music and Chinese Studies major Natalie Burton graduated magna cum laude from PLU in 2013, but she might have taken her most high-profile class just this year: an “Up Close With the… February 21, 2014 Alumni

Betron, Dan Murray, Marco Polo Ramirez Becerra and Jes Takla Spring 2018 Maggie Hendrickson Spring 2018 The Center for Gender Equity Spring 2018 Tiffany Artime Spring 2018 Tarka Wilcox Spring 2018 Lynn Hunnicutt Spring 2018 Ksenija Simic-Muller, Shannon Seidel and Wendy Gardiner Spring 2018 Melannie Denise Cunningham Spring 2018 Ami Shah and Michael Artime Spring 2018 Seth Dowland Spring 2018 Colleen Hacker Spring 2018 Sergia Hay Spring 2018 Wendy Gardiner Spring 2018 Maria Guarneri-White Spring 2018

the CIs in the United States. Faculty concerns over preserving academic freedom and university budget constraints concerning operating funds have all contributed to the trend. But so has a decline of American student interest in China studies and learning Mandarin Chinese. These closings and the attendant inflammatory rhetoric exacerbate a national foreign language deficit at a time when training Mandarin speakers familiar with an ever more consequential China should be a national priority. To

Center is a multimedia center designed to serve as a virtual and physical hub of international studies across the campus. Webpage: www.plu.edu/lrc/ Email: lrc@plu.edu Phone: 253-535-8330 Campus Location: Hong International HallMakerspace (Innovation Studies)Makerspace (Innovation Studies)Description: The Innovation Studies Makerspace is a place for discussing ideas, finding inspiration, creating prototypes, crafting, working with electronics, and numerous other projects. Webpage: www.plu.edu

unmotivated, Taylor-Mosquera would remind himself of the generational poverty and lack of educational opportunities he’d witnessed during his sojourns back to Colombia. “I would say to myself ‘if they are in the kind of situation they are, and I get to be here, then I really need to get it together.’” Eventually, an introductory Hispanic literary studies course — taught by Carmiña Palerm, associate professor of Hispanic studies — eliminated his indecision, and Taylor-Mosquera was back on track. “It was

, Asieh Mahyar serves as the interim Director of Orchestral Studies at Pacific Lutheran University and Symphony Orchestra Conductor at West Seattle Community Orchestra. A Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in Orchestral Conducting at Michigan State University, Ms. Mahyar received her MM in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and her BM in Choral Conducting from Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, Armenia. Coming from Iran and one of the very few female conductors from

faculty members helps students become entrenched in their studies. Through student-faculty research, students incorporate their own experiences with academia in a way that Lewis says improves critical thinking, writing and understanding of students’ subjects of interest. Cynthia Waite '20 Waite’s project, a study of faculty-student mentoring, caught the spirit of the day. Psychology Professor Wendelyn Shore, an expert on the topic, was Waite’s mentor, and was intrigued to hear Waite characterized

By Mollie Smith ’17 and Mandi LeCompte Jennifer Rhyne first came to PLU in 2005 when her husband, Jim Brown, was offered a job as the chair of voice studies in the Department of Music. In her first few years, she taught a few flute students, but as the years went by her responsibilities eventually grew to include instructing theory classes and directing the flute ensemble. In 2015 a full-time, tenure-track position for a flute and theory professor opened, and a national search ensued. Rhyne