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In 2019 we were pleased to present O Nata Lux as our annual Christmas concert. Performances were held on campus in the Lagerquist Concert Hall and one special evening, the concert was performed at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. For more background on some of the music, composers, and history, please read this Music blog that previewed the concert. To help spread joy and a bit of happiness, we re-released the recorded performance of O Nata Lux during the summer of 2020. You may watch it in its

family history. Her father’s side is ethnically Okinawan, and Kishaba recently joined them on a pilgrimage to Heart Mountain, WY – where 120,000 Japanese Americans were detained and held during World War II. Rona Kaufman, associate professor of English, encouraged Kishaba to tell this story in a 2019 Raphael Lemkin award-winning essay. And Kaufman remembered her when she began a project interviewing residents at a Jewish nursing home in Uruguay, with Giovanna Urdangarain, associate professor of

and data used in modern computer systems. In the senior capstone class, you will put your skills to use as you design and implement a significant software program. Our Computer Science program provides a broad base core of fundamental material that stresses analysis and design experiences with substantial laboratory work, including software development. In addition, students are exposed to a variety of programming languages and systems. Students can choose from a number of upper-level courses

,” studied “the law of least mental effort”—the theory that people will choose a low-demand task over a high-demand one when given a choice. Perhaps ironically, the research itself was rather demanding. “This was a huge project,” Henderson said. “We had to get students to take the test, and participants had to sit at a computer for 30 minutes and choose between two colors to click on. We had to use this weird math system. We probably worked on it 20 hours per week.” Based in a toasty two-computer

253.535.7415 www.plu.edu/career career@plu.edu Academic Internship/Cooperative Education courses are unique opportunities for “hands-on” job experience with directed academic learning. Students gain an appreciation of the relationship between theory and application, and learn firsthand about new developments in a particular field.   An academic internship/cooperative education experience enables students to gain skills and competencies, apply academic learning to the workplace, and receive