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experience getting to present in a formal academic setting, something I never would have gotten to do if not for this project.” Hames says working with students — particularly first-years — provides the opportunity for personalized teaching that impacts students’ education all four years. "This project has helped increase my academic confidence and taught me a new method of research."- Cessna Westra, first-year The symposium promotes student-faculty cooperation and partnership across the university

accolades, Hrabowski was named by President Obama to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans in 2012. U.S. News & World Report named him one of “America’s Best Leaders,” and ranked UMBC the nation’s No. 1 “Up and Coming” university for six years (2009-14). Among its other honors from the publication, UMBC earned top-10 recognition for “most innovative” universities (2015-17) and was among the nation’s leading institutions for “Best Undergraduate Teaching

forgotten. Griech-Polelle, who moved this summer to Tacoma from Ohio, where she taught at Bowling Green State University, said she enjoys lecturing and discussing “history as a narrative, like telling a story.” “It’s fine to listen to lectures and those can be powerful,” Griech-Polelle said. “But hearing from someone that actually survived and can attest to what happened will change your life forever.” Other than scheduling lectures, teaching, and adapting the Holocaust and Genocide Studies courses

documentary film productions, among its many other activities. The Center for Media Studies, created in 2013, was founded in part to offer the PLU community and the region high-quality multimedia productions and services, while also teaching students the fundamental elements of communication practices. The Center, which is run as a media agency, provides PLU students with pre-professional experiences in media production and services, including documentaries, support for news-gathering efforts, public

into working for small newspapers and worked my way up to a big daily newspaper like The Seattle Times,” Miller says. “But I wanted to photograph things that I was passionate about.” He packed his bags and moved to California, where he would live in his minivan for a while and work for Naturalist at Large, an organization that provides outdoors education programming to youth. Miller spent three years leading teens on outdoor recreation trips and teaching about wildlife and natural ecosystems. In

cultures. It is one of the big reasons why she enjoys taking students to India as part of her J-Term course “Comparative Education in India.” Some of the students who took part in the J-Term course in the past years have become, or will someday, be teaching in the classroom. And every opportunity to be exposed to different cultural practices can help make students better teachers. “It changes their perception of the world,” she said. And that’s a good thing. As a teacher, she’s also the first to admit

learning so much about chimpanzees, Webb decided she needed to visit Africa and learn more. She spent this fall semester studying away in Tanzania through the Lutheran Consortium of Colleges for Tanzania (LCCT). The program is a collaboration between PLU, St. Olaf College, Concordia College and Luther College. In it, students take classes at the University of Dar es Salaam and participate in LCCT work, such as independent research projects and teaching at local primary schools. Tanzania is home to

. Small classes and attentive professors also helped her get through her studies and overcome dyslexia (another reason she decided against journalism as a career-she just couldn’t keep up with the teleprompter.) The solo performance class helped the 4-foot-10-inch Pansino battle her innate shyness and sparkle in her new-found calling, she said. She also credited trying out for the Lute cheer squad and teaching English in China during a J-term trip with helping her push herself through a natural

reality with a bit of magic to create literature that is both cerebral and earthy,” say Zitron. “Her characters are complex and challenge readers to think about them beyond ‘I liked or didn’t like them.’” While Walton’s vocational focus at PLU was preparing to become a teacher, she recalls that she also discovered her confidence and passion for fiction writing as an undergraduate. “I wasn’t counting on was how much PLU would help foster my future in writing as well as teaching,” she says. “It wasn’t

siblings on PLU’s teams, in addition to Brandin and Sydney Riedel, a duo similar in age span.  And like Jackson, Sydney’s majoring in education after realizing she loved teaching others—she hopes to work with elementary-age kids in math or other STEM fields. “It was nice having someone I could ask questions of, and he already knew his way around. It made the transition a lot smoother,” she says. Sydney Reisner (PLU photo/Sy Bean) Lutes for Life Still avid film fans, Jackson and Sydney get together to