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can follow the story with English supertitles on a screen above the stage. The annual production comes together with a collaborative effort between students and faculty. Sheila Bristow, PLU’s opera coach, and Brown are joined by Theatre faculty member Kathleen Anderson for costume design and head of Stage Services, Art Giddings, as Technical Director. Faculty work alongside student designers: Erika Hagen and Tasha Smith (makeup and hair), Casandra Gramstad (lighting) and Emily Stenson (set). “It’s

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secondary classrooms J.P. Avila, Assistant Professor of Art: Avila will use $1,000 for a Nintendo Wii to construct a cost-effective digital whiteboard and interactive screen to promote visual communication through graphic design. Matthew Levy, Assistant Professor of English, Division of Humanities and Genevieve Williams, Assistant Professor of Library: They will use a “Turning Point” audience response technology to educate students about plagiarism. Their $1,000 will be used for software, a USB receiver

another Minnesota winter. Hegland will be accompanying geosciences professor Claire Todd as the pair spends 40 days, including Christmas, studying deglaciation in the Antarctic. In English, this means studying how ice has melted in Antarctica over the millennia. The temperatures last time Todd travelled to the frozen continent hovered just around zero degrees Fahrenheit. And surprisingly, the elevation is just about 2000 feet above sea level. Hegland worked at much higher elevations when he was on a

the issues plaguing Mexico, but it’s also very lighthearted — which was Urrea’s intent. “I sat down to write a book that would make me laugh,” said Urrea. “Humor is a virus that affects everyone in humanity. It’s hard to not like someone and not welcome someone if you’ve shared a laugh with them.” After sharing some laughs with the audience — between stories about his mom and grandma sneaking the family pet, a parrot, across the U.S. Mexico border, and his dad trying to memorize an English

. “That’s what I’d encourage for students. Really follow your bliss.” Foster is now the co-owner of a community supported agriculture program, Zestful Gardens. Joining Foster were Stephen Alexander , who majored in anthropology and manages an offshore team in New Delhi, India for Russell Investments; Andrea Sander ’05, who majored in political science and English and is currently an attorney for Microsoft; and Kevin Anderson ’80, who majored in religion and is the president and CEO of Wesley Homes, a

means almost a quarter of the 24-member court chose Pacific Lutheran University. It also means at least one ready-made set of familiar faces as Queen Marissa Modestowicz and Princesses KayLee Weist, Ji Larson, Nina Thach and Kaetlynn Brown adjust to their first year on campus. And while they all have almost-matching sashes and tiaras, their reasons for choosing PLU are as individual as they are. Larson settled on PLU after a trip to China, where she met an English-speaking alumna. “Ever since then I

for Blythe, but only five earned the honor: Miya Higashiyama ’17, Sarah-lynn Bennett ’15, Eric Olson ’15, Lauren Searls ’16 and Annie Herzog ’15. Each sang one song, in English, of his or her choosing and remained onstage for about 30 minutes, working with Blythe to improve technique. Blythe did not limit her definition of technique to the basics of performance, however—far from it. Blythe certainly covered the expected of an opera master class: tempo, pitch, quarter-vs.-eighth notes and so on