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students are learning how their role as tutors extend the classroom for teachers, build academic confidence of children, and support the district’s education achievement goals. This is more than community service. This is community impact through PLU. Part of the work you’re facilitating at PLU is the development of the plans and strategies necessary to adopt a “collective impact” model of resource development. Can you briefly explain that model? No one organization is going to meet its mission by
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a faculty member at PLU). Applications (including all required documents) must be submitted by 5 p.m. April 30. No late applications will be accepted. For more information and to apply, click here. The highly competitive Krise Internship, which will be awarded to one student applicant per summer, provides financial support for the recipient, opening up unpaid internship opportunities that might otherwise be out of reach. “Patty and I are honored to endow this fund, which will make an otherwise
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. Neighbors took the eggs and left gifts and notes behind, creating meaningful exchange and a sense of comfort during social isolation. Such connection between basic human needs for food and community is essential to who we are in the Division of Humanities.The most important continuity for us was in supporting and celebrating the excellent work of our students. We are especially proud of our graduates. For example, Hispanic studies major Aminda Cheney-Irgens was selected for a Fulbright English Teaching
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A Magical PLU Collaboration: Songs for the Spring of Waiting Posted by: Reesa Nelson / April 12, 2021 April 12, 2021 What do you get when you mix a poet, a composer, three musicians, and two editors? A fabulous collaboration between multiple School of Arts and Communication departments and faculty with South Sound poet and PLU alumna Josie Emmons Turner! These artists came together as part of Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, poet Emmons Turner
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Rumors promises lots of laughs and memories Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / October 7, 2015 October 7, 2015 PLU’s 2015-16 Theatre season kicks off with a mystery and lots of laughs in Rumors, written by Neil Simon and directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Jeff Clapp. The play is bound to stir up memories for some Theatre alumni; the comedy is dedicated to the late Bill Becvar who taught at PLU for 35 years and produced the play himself in 1998. The show runs on October 15 (student preview), 16
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Revenge and Pies: Theatre’s Upcoming Sweeney Todd Posted by: Reesa Nelson / March 13, 2019 March 13, 2019 By Kate Williams '16In this Tony-winning musical, Sweeney Todd returns to London after 15 years in prison on a trumped up charge. His wife is gone and his daughter has been adopted by the very Judge who imprisoned him. As Sweeney seeks justice, he partners with Nellie Lovett, a pie shop owner, who shares her plan for how Sweeney can best serve his revenge. “PLU Theatre and Dance has
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Organization (WHO) and United Nations. Peterson and her team help run campaigns, design programs and special projects, and monitor and track global policies. A recent project included work with 11 partner companies to negotiate global incremental, voluntary sodium reduction targets in breakfast cereals. The process took two years of negotiations over targets. After obtaining the agreement, the targets could be presented to the WHO’s director general. The U.S. and the E.U. might develop rules for sodium
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Communication faculty publish paper exploring the rhetoric of food Posted by: Todd / March 16, 2015 March 16, 2015 Amy Young and Justin Eckstein published two pieces in the February 2015 edition of Communication & Critical/Cultural studies, one of the top journals in the communication field, and the articles are quite tasty. The duo has put together a special forum on rhetoric and food. The first paper entitled “Rhetoric & Foodways” outlines the potential for a rhetorical examination of food
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critically and inclusively in an attempt to understand these changes from as many perspectives as possible. The Life Under Drones Symposium will bring together a diverse spectrum of voices to speak to the potential benefits and hazards that drones pose to contemporary life. Drones and Contemporary Life Discourse surrounding the innovation of drone technology elicits a number of intensive responses. On one hand, the commercial availability of drones may both normalize its use, as, for example, cities
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Professor of Communication returns from sabbatical Posted by: Todd / October 19, 2011 October 19, 2011 Joanne Lisosky, PLU Professor of Communication, returned from sabbatical this fall after completing a manuscript for her book and traveling and teaching in Azerbaijan. In the summer and fall of 2010 Lisosky completed the manuscript for a book titled, “War on Words: Who Should Protect Journalists.” The book activity was developed and completed along with 2007 PLU graduate and Fulbright alum
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