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  • JP Avila, Associate Professor of Art & Design, and Chad P. Hall ’10, PLU alum, have been busy at work with the release of season 4 of their podcast, This is Design School . This release welcomes amazing guests in the design world and beyond.…

    “This is Design School” Podcast Posted by: Kate Williams / April 11, 2019 April 11, 2019 By Kate Williams '16JP Avila, Associate Professor of Art & Design, and Chad P. Hall ’10, PLU alum, have been busy at work with the release of season 4 of their podcast, This is Design School. This release welcomes amazing guests in the design world and beyond. This is Design School is a podcast for those interested in design, starting a career in design, or needing a reminder of why they went into design

  • On January 9 and 10, 2015, Pacific Lutheran University welcomed 250 high school students to Mary Baker Russell Music Center for Northwest High School Honor Bands. Students came from more than 80 schools in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Ed Powell , associate professor of music…

    directors recommended high school student musicians for participation back in October. Students spent the weekend intensely training with guest musicians and performed a final concert. This year’s guest clinicians included Sarah McKoin, from Texas Tech University, and Damon Talley, from Louisiana State University. The event aims to enrich the skills of the participants, who then take that knowledge back to their schools. With Powell’s guidance, PLU students organize and run the workshop, including

  • Lutes played to more than 800 students, band directors and music lovers who packed the house at the Western International Band Clinic on Saturday, November 21, 2015. The PLU Wind Ensemble was featured during the festival’s Saturday night performance and was one of only four…

    students were professional and played beautifully. Through many tight time windows and unexpected difficulties, the students stayed cool and delivered,” Ed Powell, PLU Wind Ensemble director, commented. “It was their best performance of the year thus far.” The clinic was a three-day event featuring many guest performers, including the Canadian Brass and PLU’s professional ensemble, the Lyric Brass Quintet. “The feedback was overwhelming. [Guest conductors] came up to me after the performance to gush. I

  • Professor of Music  Dr. Gina Gillie  recently premiered her first electroacoustic music composition at Seattle Symphony’s Octave 9. Titled “Pale Blue Dot for solo horn and fixed media,” the piece is inspired by the  1991 photograph  taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as well as…

    Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle Posted by: Reesa Nelson / October 5, 2022 October 5, 2022 Professor of Music Dr. Gina Gillie recently premiered her first electroacoustic music composition at Seattle Symphony’s Octave 9. Titled “Pale Blue Dot for solo horn and fixed media,” the piece is inspired by the 1991 photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as well as Carl Sagan’s prose reflecting on the image. In the photo, Earth appears as a single pixel – “a mote of dust

  • Claim: The jury is still out about global warming Claire Todd, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies Recent events such as the snowstorms in the eastern United States have caused some to question whether or not global temperatures are increasing. To address these…

    April 19, 2010 Claim: The jury is still out about global warming Claire Todd, Visiting Assistant Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies Recent events such as the snowstorms in the eastern United States have caused some to question whether or not global temperatures are increasing. To address these questions, we can turn to the instrumental temperature record, a record of temperatures measured directly by humans for the past 130 years. These measurements, made with thermometers and

  • ‘Making Seafood Sustainable’ Mansel G. Blackford will be this year’s speaker for the Ninth Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic history at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 in the Anderson University Center. Blackford, Emeritus Professor of History at the Ohio State University, will…

    : American Experiences in Global Perspectives.” In 2005, the Ohio Academy of History named Mansel, “The Distinguished Historian in Ohio for 2005.” Most recently, the Business History Conference awarded him its Lifetime Achievement Award, given to a scholar who has contributed significantly to scholarship in business history. Blackford has written 13 books and published 36 articles and papers on American small business, entrepreneurship, and Pacific Rim business in Japan, China and Maui. He earned his B.A

  • By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 12, 2015)—Once Ryan Seacrest starts in with his trademark “THIS is ‘American Idol’” catchphrase on TV, you know another Idol is just waiting in the wings. Yep. It’s time for PLU Idol. Same premise…

    PLU Idol Competition Takes to the Stage During J-Term Posted by: Sandy Dunham / January 13, 2015 January 13, 2015 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 12, 2015)—Once Ryan Seacrest starts in with his trademark “THIS is ‘American Idol’” catchphrase on TV, you know another Idol is just waiting in the wings. Yep. It’s time for PLU Idol. Same premise as the national singing competition—but decidedly PLU. “PLU Idol is a traditional event hosted by the Residence Hall

  • The 2018 New American Colleges and Universities (NAC&U) Summer Institute will be held at Pacific Lutheran University June 19-21. The Summer Institute theme is Engaging Civility: Leading Dialogue In and Beyond the University. PLU is excited to welcome colleagues from across NAC&U institutions to campus…

    staff to attend and submit proposals. Registration information will be forthcoming this spring. Jose Antonio Bowen, 2018 Boyer Award recipient, will give the keynote address and it will be followed by a workshop with Bowen and Eddie Watson, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice President for Quality, Advocacy, and Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) Initiatives. The NAC&U Summer Institute 2018 will focus on fostering skills

  • Richard Nance, the Director of Choral Activities at Pacific Lutheran University, has been named the recipient of The American Prize in conducting for 2013. (Photo by John Froschauer) PLU choral conductor winner of The American Prize for 2013 Pacific Lutheran University’s professor and choral conductor…

    school, university, church, community and festival choirs. In 2002, Nance was selected to compose the prestigious Raymond Brock Memorial Composition for the American Choral Directors Association. Other composers who have shared this honor include Gian-Carlo Menotti, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, René Clausen, Daniel Pinkham, Samuel Adler and Gwyneth Walker. Among judges’ comments: “The sound of this choir gives powerful evidence of a conductor with very fine pedagogical and gestural technique

  • 3 Free Events at PLU Celebrate the Legacy of Thor Heyerdahl PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 17, 2014)—The Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University honors the 100-year anniversary of Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl’s birth with three events that celebrate the…

    dramatic Pacific voyage aboard the experimental “Kon-Tiki,” was an advocate for global environmental and peace issues—and a beloved member of the extended PLU community. Heyerdahl visited campus on three occasions: In 1966, he received PLU’s Distinguished Service Award; in 1996, he accepted the President’s Medal from then-President Loren Anderson; and in 1998, he was PLU’s Commencement speaker. The latter two visits were facilitated by Dr. Donald P. Ryan, Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at PLU, who