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in Fine Arts-Drawing & Painting and a minor in Religion. They are currently a grad student at Iowa State University getting their Masters in Fine Arts. Elizabeth hopes to one day be a college or high school teacher. Outside of being a student, Elizabeth is also a professional artist and substitute teacher. Read Previous Austin Beierman ‘18 Read Next Isamar Henriquez ‘13 LATEST POSTS Jazmyn Caroll ’15 February 23, 2022 Isamar Henriquez ‘13 February 23, 2022 Austin Beierman ‘18 February 23, 2022
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summer after my first year, I did a program with the Business school to do a service project in Nicaragua. (3) My sophomore year, I did the IHON Oxford program during J-term and spring semester. (4) That summer, I went to Guatemala for an internship with the U.S. Embassy and also had funding from the PLU Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education to do a research project on Guatemala’s civil war monuments and the indigenous genocide that occurred through that civil war. (5) The J-Term of
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expression, a First Ranked School—a University of the First Rank, coupled with his expectation that we would attract students from well beyond the newly admitted state of Washington to include students from other states and countries suggests that we have aimed from the beginning to be more than an institution of merely local prominence. It also suggests that we would become engaged in international education, which of course we have done with great gusto. The Pathway to Distinction We have also grown up
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from passionate faculty. It was a coincidence that found Zee studying in Tacoma. His parents had wished their son to have the advantages of an overseas education, but worried what may come of him “without close supervision,” he joked. As it happened, PLU physics professor K.T. Tang visited Hong Kong (Zee was a student at the high school where Tang had once studied) and made an impression on Zee and his parents. “They thought that if I studied physics in Tacoma, Professor Tang could keep an eye on
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having a few select students ‘sit in’ with the professional trio and see if they can hang with more mature musicians playing at a high level,” says Deacon-Joyner. Invitations to PLU Jazz Day have been extended to Seattle-area high-school jazz band directors and students, PLU music supporters and alumni. Organizers recommend that attendees arrive at Tula’s early to guarantee a seat at the intimate locale. Live In-Studio at KPLUWednesday, April 29The Jazz Sound Trio and students Zach Miller and Brandon
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PLU Wind Ensemble to Premiere Crowd-Commissioned Composition on Tour of Tennessee Posted by: Zach Powers / January 20, 2015 Image: [Photo by John Froschauer/PLU] January 20, 2015 By Zach Powers & Mandi BradyPLU Marketing & Communications and the School of Arts and Communication TACOMA, WA (Jan. 20, 2015)—The Pacific Lutheran University Wind Ensemble is heading South this month to perform four concerts in Tennessee. The tour includes performances in Nashville on Jan. 23 and 28, Chattanooga on
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break from her busy day as senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle. “It was amazing on campus, and it was wonderful,” she said. On campus “it just felt like home, it was friendly, people smiled…it wasn’t what I had experienced my last six years in junior high and high school.” Her time at PLU, Tachibana adds, was simply a time to grow up. PLU’s nursing program was largely self-paced then, and taught her discipline and focus. “That is
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April 1, 2013 Greg Youtz: Composing for the cannery – of boxcars, rhinos, and grapes By James Olson ’14 In 1973, a 17-year-old Gregory Youtz departed from Sea-Tac International Airport and landed in France. Meritoriously skipping the third grade, the young composer had afforded himself the luxury of a year in limbo – graduating high school a year early and giving himself time to explore before college. In the dead space between high school and “higher learning,” potential itineraries sprawled
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Ashely Hill ‘15 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Michael GurrIn her senior year of high school Ashely Hill ’15 had her mind set on one of the big state schools.She had always envisioned herself at a large university as a little fish in a big pond. However, after her mother made her tour a small, liberal arts university in Tacoma, Washington, she knew the charming campus with it’s dedication to relationship-building was exactly what she needed. Ashely says she was
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comprehensive tests. But Leah Sweeney ‘17, a Fast Track student working on her Master of Business Administration, faced additional challenges -- as a new mother who needed to get started on a career, continued education seemed out of reach. “I never really was set on going to graduate school, it was something that sort of happened by accident,” Sweeney said. “I saw a flyer (for the Fast Track program) and I was like, ‘I can’t go to grad school. The application process is very intimidating, you have to pay a
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