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kind of fantastical salute to both historical events. It’s dedicated to PLU, the Department of Music, and the University Symphony Orchestra.” Also featured on the program is a performance of Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto, Op. 14 by violinist Svend Rønning, PLU professor of music and chair of stringed instruments. Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at 7:30 PM Lagerquist Concert Hall Mary Baker Russell Music Center 868 Wheeler Street South Tacoma, WA 98444 Get Tickets Read Previous Choir of the West

researcher with the results, Waldow said. Undergraduate students, who usually do not have access to such powerful equipment, will find that having used the spectrometer-one of the first of its kind located in a West Coast predominately undergraduate institution, such as PLU-will help them land future jobs, Fryhle said. The same holds true of some students in nearby community colleges that will have access to the machine. “It will give them a leg up right from the start,” Waldow concurred. Read Next

informed of my acceptance, I had less than a month to prepare for what would be one of the most beneficial experiences of my college career. I was nervous to be the only person from PLU attending the conference, and I also felt like I was representing the entire West Coast because most of the students were from the East Coast. As soon as the group met Saturday, Feb. 16, my nerves were replaced with confidence. I told myself that both quality professors and professionals in the field of journalism had

achieve the silver rating, Kaniss said. According the council’s Web site, which lists registered green buildings across the nation, the UC is the first student center on the West coast to achieve the rating, added Mischelle Devine-Nunner, senior assistant for construction management and LEED accredited professional. Earth-friendly building codes have permeated campus. The new KPLU building under construction on lower campus should achieve a gold rating, and all residence hall upgrades are designed to

. The Chemistry faculty plan to have webcasts from the NMR lab to teach local college and high school students about the NMR spectrometry. Undergraduate students, who usually do not have access to such a powerful instrument, will find that having used the spectrometer-one of the first of its kind located in a West Coast undergrad institution – will help them land future jobs, the professors said. “This is really going to be the crown jewel of the instruments in our department,” Waldow said when the

showers. It was my second time at Neah Bay. I had been here once before, part of a J-Term course, “Makah Culture Past and Present.” My experience from that time was why I returned this past summer. Along with several other PLU students and Professor of Anthropology David Huelsbeck, we came to volunteer at Tribal Journeys, one of the largest Native American celebrations on the West Coast of the United States. My first experience at Neah Bay taught me the warmth of the Makah people – I never had been

remains one of his mentors to this day. While a student at PLU, Scott met and fell in love with his future wife, Elizabeth (Morlan ’05) in Choir of the West. “I proposed to her on stage,” he said. That was in December 2004 and they were married the following summer. They have two beautiful girls, Madelyn (3) and Avery (six months) who can “sleep through any music we happen to be playing or singing at the time,” he said. He serves as the choir director at Trinity Lutheran Church in Enumclaw and his

, early American, and 17th- and 18th-century British literature. He has served as General Editor of the McNair Papers monograph series and Managing Editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. He has published numerous articles and other works, including Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 (University of Chicago Press). Krise will arrive at PLU in June to assume the presidency. He succeeds Loren J. Anderson who will leave