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kind of fantastical salute to both historical events. It’s dedicated to PLU, the Department of Music, and the University Symphony Orchestra.” Also featured on the program is a performance of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Op. 14 by violinist Svend Rønning, PLU professor of music and chair of stringed instruments. Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at 7:30 PM Lagerquist Concert Hall Mary Baker Russell Music Center 868 Wheeler Street South Tacoma, WA 98444 Get Tickets Read Previous Choir of the West

science courses through the Running Start program while he was a student at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. As part of Running Start, Kop attended Tacoma Community College, where he majored in astronomy and took courses that interested him. But by the time he got to PLU, as a transfer junior, Kop was ready to take on a challenging schedule as an upper division physics major. He knew how to succeed in college, since he’d taken prerequisite classes and was aware of the difficulty of a STEM-focused

affords.” Moving Math ForwardThe National Science Foundation recently awarded Associate Professor of Mathematics Ksenija Simic-Muller — in collaboration with professors from the University of North Carolina and University of Houston — a $299,993 grant under the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program. Simic- Muller and her colleagues across the country will complete a project titled “Supporting the Development of Mathematics Preservice Teachers’ Critical Consciousness through Statistical Investigations of

Educator and Cheerleader: Dr. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen Posted by: dupontak / May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021 By Allyson Lessard '23English and Philosophy MajorThe COVID-19 pandemic is presenting itself to be a challenging time for educators, but experienced professors like Dr. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen are facing this challenge head-on.Dr. Llewellyn Ihssen is a professor in the religion department at Pacific Lutheran University and teaches classes in the university’s International Honors Program as well

team projects that connected business lessons with the needs of local businesses have been a highlight of her years in the program. “In a business marketing class we had to reach out to local or PLU organizations in improving their marketing strategies,” she says. “This meant we took over their social media, created a plan of what kind of content we needed to post, and evaluated where they needed improvements and how the changes can be long-term.”Learn More About PLU School of Business Programs

on an Orca Smart Card (worth getting if you are new to the region as it is used throughout the Seattle-Tacoma area), or purchase a ticket on the Transit app. And for the 2023-24 academic year, the PLU Student Transit Benefit offers students the opportunity to purchase a $15(!) Pierce County ORCA Card, which allows students to travel by bus for unlimited rides anywhere within Pierce County. If this new program goes well, it will (fingers crossed) continue in following years. Safe travels! Guest

. His entire career track changed in 1989, when a journalism professor in his master’s program pointed out a posting for a job fair at The News Tribune in Tacoma – wherever that was. On a whim, Wells booked a flight out to the Northwest and showed up at the job fair with hope, a resume, and no journalism experience whatsoever. Wells received polite passes from most of the editors, until one, TNT City Editor Gary Jasinek, sat down and gave Wells the cold hard facts of journalism: He was probably

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program, but this approach is extremely time-consuming and we were under a tight deadline. So, instead of going through the laborious process involved in motion graphics, I suggested that we try stop motion animation to showcase PLU’s sustainability efforts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MpxpjLMntw   Scripting and Storyboarding Once we settled on using stop motion to tell our “carbon onsetting” story, the next step was to write a script and draw a storyboard. The team from Marketing

she’d get a part. But she did. And she was surprised by how much work the chorus had on stage. “The chorus is on the stage almost all the time and is an integral part of the opera,” Van Mechelen said. After a taste of this, Van Mechelen knows that singing is what she wants to do with her life. She arrived at PLU as a transfer student. “I went into audition for the music program and the faculty was so warm and inviting … It just felt like home,” she said. Marlette Buchannan Hall, a vocal studies