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human emotions and the progression of relationships. This year’s guest choreography exposes the relationship between the hunter, the prey and the wolf. Guest choreographer Jessica Zoller explains that the inspiration for her piece Keep them at Bay occurred while listening to an episode of This American Life. The episode discussed infamous American Custer Wolves that terrorized cattle and eluded hunters in the early 1900s. Intrigued by the Custer Wolf, Zoller decided to explore themes of

School. Tomorrow we’ll visit ‘Iolani High School, and then share a final luau dinner and show at the Polynesian Cultural Center. We’ll get up early and head home the final day. Thank you to all of the wind ensemble student performers, Dr. Powell, all other PLU family, and our school hosts. We have had a wonderful time in Hawaii and we are honored to have shared our tour with all of you. Our tour has been a success and we can’t wait until the next time we are able to return.   Mahalo! ~ Ryan Marsh

applied). And we didn’t expect to get the money that would let us buy something this powerful.” This grant comes on the heels of another grant from the NSF in early 2007, where the department received $181,000 to buy an atomic force microscope. The spectrometer itself, which arrived this spring, is not much to look at – even the enthusiastic team of professors Craig Fryhle, Dean Waldow, Myriam Cotten and Neal Yakelis admit this. It looks, from the photographs, like a rather large thermos surrounded by

students the keys to guide their college experience and avoid looking back on it after graduation and wondering, “What if?” Students are able to learn what PLU has to offer early in their college careers and begin figuring out what they want to achieve in their time here. It also aims to help students begin the process of discovering their vocation, identity and purpose. The first years are just beginning to understand what the vocation of a student is, how that fits with what they are studying and how

opportunity to serve my discipline, including students and peers,” Grahe said. “Since I arrived on the Psi Chi Board of Directors as vice president four years ago, I have advanced an agenda to increase research opportunities and participation (including crowd-sourcing projects) for our members. In January, the board approved my recommendation for a research advisory committee, and being president allows me to have a more active role in the early stages of that committee because I will remain on the board

, Henrichsen interned at the United Nations; was part of the first Communication class to study internationally; and was a columnist for PLU’s student newspaper, The Mooring Mast. She did this all with the help of her first professor at PLU, Professor of Communication Joanne Lisosky. “I met her really early on,” said Henrichsen. “I talked with her about my goals and ideas. We connected really quickly, which was awesome. I stayed in the Communication department because I appreciated her role, her enthusiasm

a deep commitment to ‘early outreach’ by being present in many of their middle and elementary schools, connecting with students to spread the college-going message,” said Melannie Denise Cunningham, PLU’s Director of Multicultural Recruitment. “We make college real to the students by providing creative opportunities for them to connect with current PLU students to understand what college is like.” For example, Cunningham said: Through Teach 253, PLU works with Mount Tahoma and Lincoln high

and uncle sang and performed as a group in the 1940s and were well known in the Hartford, Connecticut area, where she was born, as “The Musical Browns.” Her musical roots come from them. She went on to champion the work of African American composer, Florence Price, and helped lead the way in Black music history studies as a professor in music for decades. Her penchant for service to others was established early, as she was both a loyal Brownie and a Girl Scout. Rae Linda leaves behind a devoted

Entrepreneur Justin Foster ’02 on making meaningful relationships with faculty Posted by: Lace M. Smith / August 13, 2019 Image: Justin Foster ’02, and School of Business Dean Chung-Shing Lee photographed in the Morken Center for Learning & Technology at PLU, Wednesday, July 3, 2019. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) August 13, 2019 By Vince SchleitwilerGuest WriterLutes often find ways to show gratitude to the community that supported their education, but Justin Foster ’02 got started early. An

, music composition theory and conducted the Concert Chorus.  “The music department in those early days was small and my father brought his teaching skills to composition classes, choral conducting and other diverse classes,” Fritts said.  Fritts founded the Paul Fritts & Co. Organ Builders in 1979, and says he has been dedicated to the design and construction of high-quality pipe organs ever since. His company was commissioned by former music professor David Dahl to develop the Lagerquist Hall organ