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piano—that is a lifelong gift. I am also interested in continuing research on my senior project, called “The Evolution of Piano Pedagogy and Culture in China.” What are your other plans and hopes for the future? Besides using piano and Chinese proficiently in a career, I don’t have many plans. I always hope to love God and people better with whatever I’m doing, though. How did a PLU education prepare you for the real world? Was anyone here particularly influential in your life or career plans? There

playing piano—that is a lifelong gift. I am also interested in continuing research on my senior project, called “The Evolution of Piano Pedagogy and Culture in China.” What are your other plans and hopes for the future? Besides using piano and Chinese proficiently in a career, I don’t have many plans. I always hope to love God and people better with whatever I’m doing, though. How did a PLU education prepare you for the real world? Was anyone here particularly influential in your life or career plans

health care that integrates best evidence from studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values (Melnyk, Fineout-Overhold, Stillwell, & Williamson, 2010). In addition there is a need to consider those scientific studies that ask: whose perspectives are solicited, who creates the evidence, how is that evidence created, what questions remain unanswered, and what harm may be created? Answers to these questions are paramount to incorporating meaningful, culturally

, which is a retelling of Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. It’s just the right level of creepy and I thought it did what Poe wasn’t able to do in going beyond the original story and fleshing out most of the characters. What Moves the Dead also had really good representation of a non-binary character in a culturally specific way that I thought was handled really well. T. Kingfisher also writes middle-grade books under the name Ursula Vernon and has a fantastic sense of humor. In What Moves the

, “The Souls of the Righteous.” For the National Lutheran Choir alone, Cherwien has composed at least 24 new works during his tenure with the Choir.Paul TegelsHymn Festival: 500 Years of Singing Who: Paul Tegels, Associate Professor of Music and University Organist at PLU Bio: Dr. Paul Tegels, a native of the Netherlands, is Associate Professor of Music, and serves as University Organist at Pacific Lutheran University. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Organ Performance and Pedagogy

–in the context of this otherwise remote and culturally isolated area. I have obtained clearance from the HPRB to speak to any such individuals whom I find. Their stories will become part of this work, as long as they agree. I have started a blog already that will be partly about my research, but will include discussions of other subjects too–mostly about music. It’s called “Beating in Air,” and you can find it here: https://beatinginair.blog/ What are you most looking forward to? Time without

new medical facility on PLU’s campus. The MultiCare Medical Center at Pacific Lutheran University will provide high-quality, culturally appropriate outpatient services to the almost 200,000 people in and around Central Pierce County. From South Sound to statewide, the next generation of health leaders learn here. Washington is grappling with a severe shortage of health care professionals. The medical center will provide a wide variety of opportunities for health science students from PLU and the

, Justice & Sustainability We believe that diversity is intrinsic to the vitality of learning, resilience and growth. Accordingly, at every level of the university, we will act upon the fact that diversity and inclusion efforts must address and account for all differences born out of power and oppression; be responsive to how intersections and context impact how power is experienced; and collectively reimagine models and practices to create inclusive environments where all members of the PLU community

courses in LGBTQ memoir and the history and practice of the American literary magazine, and she edits Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts. A Chicago native, Borich lives with her spouse Linnea in the city’s historic Bryn Mawr District of the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, one of the most culturally and internationally diverse community areas of the city and few blocks south of the condo where the fictional characters Bob and Emily Hartley of the Bob Newhart show resided.Fleda

courses in LGBTQ memoir and the history and practice of the American literary magazine, and she edits Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts. A Chicago native, Borich lives with her spouse Linnea in the city’s historic Bryn Mawr District of the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, one of the most culturally and internationally diverse community areas of the city and recently voted the sixth “gayest” neighborhood in the United States.Rebecca McClanahanRebecca McClanahan’s most recent books