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  • remote education. To prepare for new health directives in the future, PLUTO training will be available to all faculty this summer, and will incorporate lessons learned from students and faculty about what was most effective this spring. As part of our commitment to teaching excellence, we are also assessing student needs regarding access to technology for any distance-learning scenarios that may emerge. Adaptable residential facilities. We are working to expand both our capacity for and enforcement

  • conditions,” he said. “COVID has had a major impact on the communities we serve and our ability to respond. But we’re drawing lessons learned from COVID in the last year to help us plan for the future, as this is likely just the beginning of pandemics.”Study Global Studies at PLUPLU’s Global Studies Program educates students to engage critically and actively with contending perspectives on global issues, their origins, and possible solutions to global problems drawing on methods and perspectives from

  • questions” of herself in planning lessons about American history and current events, encouraging her students “to use their second language to support thoughtful inquiry.” Bethany recommends the Teaching Assistantship Program in France: “your language skills will grow and you’ll get a taste of teaching”… as well, perhaps, of galettes, crèpes, and a buttery pastry called kouign aman. Logan Rand (Class of 2013, Major: Chemistry; Minor: French), a Ph.D. student in biogeochemistry at the Colorado School of

  • saxophonist Ernie Watts, on April 26 at 8 p.m. on the Pacific Lutheran University campus. Mr. Watts is one of the most versatile and prolific saxophone players in music. He has been featured on over 500 recordings by artists ranging from Cannonball Adderley to Frank Zappa, always exhibiting his unforgettable trademark sound. Mr. Watts has toured with Charlie Haden’s Quartet West and the Rolling Stones. He is featured on the albums of Frank Zappa, Glenn Frey, on various Motown albums and movie soundtracks

  • . I love the language, the sound, the power embedded in his works. What are you going to miss while you’re away? I’m sure two months into my sabbatical, I’m going to be really wishing I was back teaching! My students are amazing individuals. They are really the reason why this job is so fulfilling and exciting for me. It’s that human element as well — not just the lessons, but the kind of relationship you create with a person you are working with on a common project. Professor Spencer Ebbinga

  • as the library’s educational strategy. His career in public library administration has taken him across the country, and he’s learned lessons each step of the way that have made him a better librarian, public administrator and education leader. Brian Bannon gives a keynote talk at a 2016 Aspen Institute-sponsored conference. An Emerald City mentorAfter two years at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bannon began his library career in the Emerald City. He was hired by the Seattle Public Library

  • serves to enhance all of the music we’ve collected.  And Jerry’s piece is utterly fascinating. There are sounds on this CD that have never been played by a brass quintet before, and the music is very effective.  It is extremely modern, but always informed by music from Luther’s time and beyond, which is why it works so well alongside Bach. The Lyric Brass is the resident faculty brass ensemble at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in Tacoma, Washington.  Its members teach private lessons at PLU and

  • this method of interaction. It was a very costly way to do business with others, it takes a while before people will trust you again and I suspect that while they may forgive, they don’t forget. So the next time you feel the blood rushing to your head as you launch yourself (uninvited) to render assistance or advice: try to take a minute to recall the words of noted writer, philosopher and historian Will Durant: “One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a

  • triumphs. I look at nursing as an opportunity to grow as a person, to contribute to something or someone other than myself, and to empower others to become the best version of themselves. What motivates you? I’m motivated by the life lessons I’ve learned from my patients. Working in the ICU has allowed me to see that good health is a blessing and that anything can happen. I’ve learned to live in the moment and to never take anything for granted. Nursing has become a part of my life and now my identity

  • could allocate that money however we wanted to in the stock market. We then went through the semester seeing if we were going to make or lose money from our investments.” Ouanesisouk, who was offered a job by Amazon Web Services months before graduation, says team projects that connected business lessons with the needs of local businesses were a highlight of her years in the program. “In a business marketing class we had to reach out to local or PLU organizations in improving their marketing