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.  “We believe Erik’s broad experience and leadership skills will move KPLU forward into a future with many challenges and opportunities for public media.” Nycklemoe has served as Director of Network Initiatives at American Public Media Group in St. Paul, Minnesota, since 2008.  (The Group includes American Public Media, Minnesota Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, Classical South Florida and Greenspring Media.) His responsibilities include acquisitions, developing multi-year business

manager mentioned nearly half of those 10,000 troops were African-American, Wells decided it was time to dig into this relatively unknown story. “This really made my ears perk up. I had no knowledge of this history until then,” he said. Wells established a student-faculty research project in investigative journalism and recruited Shannon Schrecengost ’09 to help. The two quickly set to work poring over thousands of documents and conducting hundreds of interviews. All of this was compiled into a film

phrases to make my pieces even more impactful, my own words that draw on my own experiences with these negative emotions. Combined, my posters are emotionally impactful to all who view them. I draw major inspiration from Kelly Reemtsen, mainly her painterly style of drawing women. She is able to create such a narrative through her figures poses and their attire, without including the full figure, which I find admirable. Using bright colors and symbols to directly influence her viewers take on her

exhibited at the Tacoma Art Museum, Bellevue Art Museum, Whatcom County Art Museum and Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle. She has been selected to participate in more than fifty juried exhibitions. She also received a CAP’S Creative Artist Project Award in New Jersey and winner of Oregon State Arts Commission Public Art Award. In 2007, Geller was selected for Pierce County Portable Works Award. Geller is also featured in many private collections. In her final exhibition on campus, Geller’s goal was

Chinese contemporary composer Tan Dun. Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of J.S. Bach, the work features soloists, chorus, and water percussion:  bowls and basins filled with water, manipulated by hand and amplified by contact microphones. Tan Dun’s music is a fascinating, refreshing blend of Western classical music and traditional Chinese ritual. PLU’s School of Arts and Communication is an associate level sponsor of the concert.TicketsTuesday, March 22 & Wednesday, March 23, 8 pm | Lagerquist

started five years ago, for Finitsis’ Religion 211 class, Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible, and students were charged with the task of reflecting on the contemporary relevance and significance of the biblical material they were studying. Finitsis collaborated with Nick Butler, instructional technologies team manager, to bring the project alive. Today, it has morphed into a project and competition where students spend a great deal of time developing a story and creating videos that reflect

, the Contemporary Church History Quarterly. Bob’s talk, “Church Historians, ‘Profane Historians,’ and our Odyssey Since Wilhelm Niemöller,” will appear in the spring of 2014, along with the rest of the conference papers, in a volume he will edit for the German journal, Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte. Recent publications now in print include “Dietrich Bonhoeffer in History: Does our Bonhoeffer Still Offend?,” a paper Bob presented at an International Bonhoeffer Conference (see Green and Carter, eds

Bible, is required to select a passage from the Hebrew Bible and demonstrate its importance by re-creating the passage in a contemporary manner. “What I’m doing differently is, instead of writing a paper, I’m asking students to give me their arguments in a visual form where it could be understood in 2015,” Finitsis said. The Lutes write, direct, act, edit and shoot their films before premiering them in class. Finitsis then invites the students with the highest-quality videos to enter the Hebrew Idol

water.” In her latest book, “Blue Covenant” Marlow urges against the privatization of water resources,  such as is happening in Africa and Latin America.  If water sources aren’t under some sort of public entity – then “it really doesn’t matter if you have all the water in the world” the resource will go to the highest bidder, rather than be conserved for the public good, she stated.  For the most part Europe has kept much of its water resources in public hands – and the attempt by Pickens aside

said. “Her sons or daughters may not be able to go to school because she’s out collecting water.” In her latest book, “Blue Covenant” Marlow urges against the privatization of water resources,  such as is happening in Africa and Latin America.  If water sources aren’t under some sort of public entity – then “it really doesn’t matter if you have all the water in the world” the resource will go to the highest bidder, rather than be conserved for the public good, she stated.  For the most part, Europe