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school in the Virgin Islands, and one of his academic specialties is early Caribbean literature. He is excited to experience this with students and, in turn, connect with them on the trip. “This will be great to be able to bring students to the place that I’ve been studying and living in for a long time,” he said. Students attended the Study Away fair for a lot of different reasons. Many, like Samantha Lund ’17, came to check out a specific trip—she was interested in Hal DeLaRosby’s COMA 235/493 J

Television Arts and Sciences — Northwest Chapter for the documentary film ``Changing Currents: Protecting North America’s Rivers.``Changing Currents, which publicly premiered in Tacoma in November 2016, received a college division nomination in the “Long-Form Nonfiction” category of the competition. The winner will be announced at a Seattle awards ceremony in early June. Joshua Wiersma ’18, who served as assistant editor and video journalist on the film, said the recognition is extremely gratifying

vocalists do win competition win prize money to fund graduate school. In October, PLU students were given the opportunity to audition for a spot in the finals. In November, students submitted an application and an audition tape. Meade and husband John Myers, also a professional opera singer, reviewed all of the audition material and selected six finalists, who were informed early in December. The finalists are: Jordan Bowles, Brennan Brichoux, Gillian Dockins, Luke Hartley, Marissa Moultrie and

MFA in Writing for Children and YA program in Saint Paul, Minnesota.   Lê has a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University and serves as an early childhood policy consultant at the national, state and local levels. “Lê takes readers on imaginative adventures that showcase the power of family, friendship and community,” says Gardiner. “‘Drawn Together’ and his remake of the graphic novel series ‘Green Lantern’ richly portray the navigation of languages, cultures and identities that

Urdangarain worked together to write a grant proposal to PLU’s Wang Center with the goal of studying the role museums play in shaping the international understanding of a nation, especially in light of traumatic histories. The funding was approved, and in early 2023, four years after her first visit, Dieringer returned to Uruguay. “Coming back from that trip, I was super inspired,” she says. “The biggest thing I learned is that scholarship from the global South is underrepresented and makes our

Russell gave the first naming gift to launch the new Music facility, which would be named the Mary Baker Russell Music Center. Mary Baker Russell listens to Dave Robbins Even in the early seventies, the department had clearly outgrown the small space they shared with theatre and communication in Eastvold. Youtz remembers buckets catching drips of rainwater while he lectured. Robbins wrote the very first report justifying a new fine arts music building, which was approved by the regents in 1978. “The

the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s.  He was appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1977 and, with colleagues, founded the Task Force for Child Survival in 1984. While at the CDC, he forced drug companies to warn that aspirin may cause the sometimes deadly Reye Syndrome, reacted quickly to alert women to the dangers of toxic shock syndrome and saw the first cases of a frightening new disease in the early 1980s: AIDS. Over his career, he has

the overwhelming nausea suffered by many patients undergoing chemotherapy. He felt so good, in fact, that he continued to play catch with his older brother Sam, himself a former PLU baseball player and a 2011 PLU graduate, and he also played with Sam on a recreational basketball team. “Throughout the whole process, I stayed completely positive. I knew I was going to beat this, it was only a matter of when.” –Max Beatty When Beatty made appearances at early season PLU games in Portland, and later

continents.  Kilimanjaro in Africa, Aconcagua in South America, Denali in North America, Elbrus in Europe and now Everest in Asia. Reaching the highest peaks in the world has cultivated an attitude that anything is possible. “People often ask me ‘Why do you climb?,’” he said, “the answer, I think, is actually simple. I climb these mountains because it reminds me I can do things I think I may not be able to do.” Gary Nelson stands in front of a prayer flag monument on Mt. Everest. “When I first started

, Computer Education Week honors the birthday of computing pioneer Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, who was born on December 9, 1906. Hopper was a pioneer of modern computer programming who invented some of the first computer compiler tools. Although December is a busy time of the year for teachers and students, this week honors one of our founders and focuses attention on how people learn to program computers and why that skill might be useful. Jeff Raskin, Melinda Gates, and Hadi Partovi address the crowd