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professor Dr. Douglas Oakman, Ph.D. will offer comments during the musical presentation. Illuminations from The Saint John’s Bible will be featured throughout the program. The Garden of Earthly Delights: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue March 23 | 7:30 p.m. | Anderson University Center (Scandinavian Cultural Center) While most modern scholars read the biblical Song of Songs as a collection of secular love poems, in antiquity it was understood to be an encoded account of God’s love for God’s

not only on the skills students will need in the future, we also focus on the timeless skills that we know are critical.” “Students need to be ready for 2030 via their skills, though they also need to be highly effective communicators, teammates, innovators and leaders,” continues Mulder. “We seek to help students stay ahead of the curve, and as we see in the success of our alumni, a PLU business degree is a great foundation for an excellent career.”A Modern Approach Somaye Nargesi, a third-year

and a community member.” Dela Cruz double majored in history and literature. She also studied away for a January Term in Manchester, England, and a semester in Oaxaca, Mexico. She said she hopes to go to graduate school in a few years to study student affairs. Eventually, she hopes to work at a university in academic advising or leadership, specifically to help students of color and first-generation students. She said he is always thinking about her one wild and precious life, thanks to her time

raised in the Inland Northwest of Washington State. After crossing the Cascades, she began working toward a double major in studio art and English literature at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, with the intent of becoming a secondary educator in the field of art or English. While not attending to her own education, she spent her summers away from college teaching preschool and elementary school aged children ne arts at the Corbin Art Center in Spokane, WA. Like the children she taught, art

now a regular long-term program. Acquire Knowledge UIP courses are given by professors from world-class universities worldwide, covering a wide range of topics including natural sciences, medicine, arts, law, business, literature, etc. Acquire Experience UIP delivers new experience to participating international faculties and students by demonstrating China’s past, present, and future in one burgeoning city, through various activities and field trips. Acquire Connections By 2024, nearly 1,400

is to modern television what Star Wars was to the Second Golden Age of movies in the 1970s. And it most likely will be the last of its kind. The non-serialized, binge-worthy model of releasing an entire season at once, introduced by Netflix and followed now by other streaming services, seems unable to create the same spectacle and shared collective experience of the weekly Game of Thrones phenomenon. Amazon spent $200 million just to buy the rights to adapt the popular fantasy series Lord of the

Festival films have in common? Wilkin: PLU’s 2016 Tournées film festival features ambitious films with universal themes. “The Pearl Button” and “Francofonia” engage with history on an epic scale, asking whether atrocities are an exclusive trait of our planet, and what is the value of art. “Jauja” and “The Marquise of O,” both historical dramas, celebrate human determination in the quest for truth. “Mustang” and “Hippocrates: Diary of a Doctor” deal with contemporary problems that far exceed the borders

situations that will help you grow to your greatest potential and accomplish your goals.”Nelago NuunyangoMajor: Political Science, with a minor in Literature Hometown: Epato village, Namibia Selected accomplishments: Graduation Honors (magna cum laude); PLU Q Club Scholarship; PLU Academic Scholarship; First in Family Scholarship; Donald R. Farmer Award; Lutheran Leadership Award; Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society; Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Post-graduation plans: Pursuing graduate study in

prepare high school students for college. Horn expects to hear back about the opportunity by May 20. In the future, Horn sees himself becoming a teacher. At the moment, his end goal is to teach English and find a way to incorporate literature and film in the classroom.  While his time at PLU challenged him, Horn suspects it’s only the beginning. He anticipates leaving the PLU community will be an adjustment post graduation, but he’s ready. “Maybe the most challenging thing hasn’t come yet,” he said

, professor of chemistry, received another in a long series of Natural Sciences Foundation grants–this one for $98,000 for his research in polymer chemistry. Archaeologist Don Ryan, a PLU alumnus and a faculty fellow in humanities, published “Beneath the Sands of Egypt” to critical and popular acclaim. These are just a few examples of faculty scholarship, to which one can add the dozens of performances by our music faculty, creative works by our faculty in art and theater, as well as the contemporary