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  • Art in—and for—the Community PLU students prepare the Parkland Post Office wall for a community mural. (Photo: Parkland Community Mural Project) Parkland Community Mural Project is a Shared Reflection of History and Identity By Shunying Wang ’15 Learn more about ‘€”and work on!’ €”the mural…

    project settled on themes of resiliency, the tension between reality and hope, diversity, rural/urban, vibrancy and wholeness. The design scheme uses each letter of “Parkland” to illustrate stories around those themes: P for people, A for agriculture, R for recreation, K for kids, L for landscape, A for academics, N for native peoples and D for diversity. The mural is scheduled for completion in June, with many people—at PLU and in the community—already excited to see the end product as it gives voice

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 2, 2015)- Pacific Lutheran University’s annual Christmas Concerts have entertained and inspired audiences across the Pacific Northwest for decades. For 2015, PLU is making Christmas Concert history in celebration of its 125th Anniversary. As in previous years, the concerts will be performed…

    heard Angela sing are in for an added treat at the gala concert,” said University Chorale Conductor and Associate Director of Choral Activities Brian Galante. “She has a powerful voice – warm, rich and vibrant in the loud, climactic moments, and sublimely beautiful in the soft, tender sections.” “We’ll get to hear the full range and expression of her singing in the repertoire for this Christmas Concert. And even though she has a commanding stage presence, she is able to draw the audience in for the

  • Georjina Soliai ‘23 of Lakewood, Washington grew up less than a 15-minute drive from Pacific Lutheran University. The Clover Park High School graduate was always aware of the university, but she never really considered it an option for herself. Soliai’s family moved to the United…

    PLU they really emphasize vocation or finding your voice … I’ve become more aware of my values and the community that I want to represent.” That community is her neighborhood in Lakewood, Washington. She understands the needs of the area and hopes she can return to give back. “I’m from the Woodbrook area outside of Ft. Lewis,” she said. “I want to come back to Woodbrook, to show these kids that you can get out. You can branch out and succeed.” Read Previous PLU’s MBA program named one of the

  • 8:00 a.m. – Registration begins in the North Lobby University Center across form the Concierge Desk; Conference booklet; name badges for registered participants; banquet tickets for pick-up 9:00

    that will include a variety of singers, as well as the voice of Mahalia Jackson singing Duke Ellington’s superb jazz interpretation of Psalm 23. From the ancient Jewish community, Christians received the Psalms of the Hebrew Bible. These lyrical texts explore every dimension of human experience and thus offer Jews and Christians an honest evocative vocabulary: from profound sorrow to confident hope, from simple doubt to thanksgiving for earth and its many species. In this session, participants will

  • While the country was divided in joy and grief over Donald Trump being elected President, various U.S Congressional staff members wrote a handbook to encourage resistance to Trump’s political agenda, which sparked the creation of Indivisible, a grassroots and non-partisan political group dedicated to that…

    attended protests and meetings, but has been involved in the group to a lesser extent than Professors Marcus and Albrecht, whom she admires for their demonstrations of leadership and determination. Professor Kaufman’s decision to join Indivisible stems from her belief that speaking out against injustice is tremendously important, “It’s more effective to have a collective voice than to have individual voices.” One of the injustices that Indivisible speaks out against is Trump’s ruling on DACA, which is

  • Capstone Title: “Leaving it Open”

    this critical research project, I will not only make sense of how privilege and happiness are interconnected, but also explore how Zoboi’s incorporation of race in Pride—an element noticeably absent from Pride and Prejudice—adds necessary nuance to the themes of the original text.Lauren Wilson6:00-6:30pm Capstone Title: A Powerful Voice in a Powerless World: Re-interpreting Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice ePortfolio: https://lwilson.pludhlab.org/ Abstract: With this project, I join a community

  • Meet John F. Paul, the new Chair of the Department of Music and Associate Professor at Pacific Lutheran University. Before joining the PLU family at the start of the 2014-15 school year, Dr. Paul served for 13 years as Chair of the Department of Music…

    Brown, the chair of our voice program, invited Stephanie Blythe to campus in February to work with six of our voice students.  Ms. Blythe is one of the most highly regarded and respected mezzo-sopranos in the world today. The event provides our students with an incredible learning experience, at the same time advancing our reputation in the local community and the world of opera. It is gratifying to see such a small and mundane action as sharing budget information with faculty leading to an event

  • By Dana Shreaves, Instructional Designer When instructors want to communicate with students at a distance, one option is to create video or audio recordings. Many faculty dislike seeing or hearing themselves recorded. Others are intimidated by the process of creating recordings. However, recordings can be…

    screencast where you discuss a student’s paper or project as it is displayed on your computer screen. Alternatively, the text-editor in Sakai includes an audio-recorder tool that allows instructors to embed 3 minute audio clips into any text box. Longer audio or video feedback can be shared as files uploaded to Sakai, or shared privately on Google Drive.   Recorded instruction and communications are a great strategy to consider when teaching at a distance. Your students will appreciate hearing your voice

  • Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies | urdangga@plu.edu | 253-535-7240

    pan” de Manane Rodríguez (Uruguay, 2016): memoria, mujeres y barbarie, co-organized by The University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Oregon State University Portland, OR (March 9-11, 2019) XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS), Memoria(s) y saber(es): una aproximación a tres proyectos museísticos conosureños, Panel Giving Voice to the Voiceless through Narratives of Trauma and Healing, University of Illinois at Chicago (September 27-29, 2018

  • Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Global & Cultural Studies | urdangga@plu.edu | 253-535-7240

    pan” de Manane Rodríguez (Uruguay, 2016): memoria, mujeres y barbarie, co-organized by The University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Oregon State University Portland, OR (March 9-11, 2019) XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS), Memoria(s) y saber(es): una aproximación a tres proyectos museísticos conosureños, Panel Giving Voice to the Voiceless through Narratives of Trauma and Healing, University of Illinois at Chicago (September 27-29, 2018