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for Valentine’s Day. So rather than spending your marketing bucks towards a month-long campaign, just focus on the one or two weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day. Forty-six percent say they’ll start shopping in early February. 5. Year after year, more and more people are shopping on their phones for Valentine’s Day. So it could be a good idea to boost your mobile efforts. Between 2015 to 2016, mobile search increased from 40 to 48 percent on Bing.com. 6. There’s nearly a 50-50 split between people

northwest’s brightest young choral teachers In profundum maris by Dr. Richard Nance, conductor of the choir Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening by Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds, who recorded an album with the Choir of the West that was released in early 2020 Descend to Earth by British composer Ken Burton Hope (Ring Out, Wild Bells) by PLU music department chair Dr. Brian Galante Conductor Richard Nance noted, “Being selected to perform for any ACDA conference is a great honor, and it feels especially

foundational things to what I’ve done in my career. What’s your best advice to current PLU students who might be interested in a career in the IT field?  The best advice I would give is to start your career at a place where you can have tremendous opportunities to learn and grow. You’re not done learning when you get your bachelor’s degree at PLU. You’ll have some great knowledge and skills to offer, but you should still be focused on growth. Early in your career, especially, look for jobs that will

sense of humor, even though she’d encountered audiences in other states that did not. She pushed her listeners to think and not sleepwalk through life. Bookending the year, speakers again focused on the clout of the individual. In early November, Peter Metzelaar talked about choices his mother made in the winter of 1944 to escape the Nazis and lead her son to safety. The two first hid in a cave and then a room in Hauge. When his mother discovered informants were planning to disclose their

March 19, 2009 What would be awesome? By Steve Hansen It would be easy to say that, over his career, PLU graduate Peter Parsons has found himself in the right place at the right time. He was on the Xbox development team when there were fewer than a dozen people working on the project. He was product manager for some of the early groundbreaking video games like Flight Simulator and Age of Empires. He had a hand in the “Where the Hell is Matt?” video going viral. Oh, and by the way, he also led

discussion means that students have to be prepared. Students can’t skip readings, or classes – simply having a larger workload is no excuse. Being part of a select group keeps everyone razor sharp – and accountable. “It is what post-graduate studies are like,” said Finstuen. It is probably too early for either Josh or Catherine to decide if grad school is going to be their next step after PLU. They aren’t thinking about that right now. They are thinking about what they are learning in their IHON classes

department and interacting with patients and physicians. I plan on studying for my MCAT over the winter and likely write it in April of next year. 5. Do you have any advice or insight for students aspiring to study biology? My advice is to build connections early and find a strong support group in college. Many of my close friends from PLU are STEM majors and have similar career aspirations. Friends with similar interests can refer relevant resources or opportunities or introduce you to people who can

and re-explain the teacher’s directions,” he recalls. He learned to play the organ himself, as well as the piano, then earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in music. He is now an assistant professor of music and the director of jazz studies at PLU, and his role as an educator stretches far beyond the correcting and re-explaining of his early days. Vianna aims to teach his students about balance, especially when it comes to innovation in jazz music. “Improvisation, creativity, and

moment in the early institutionalization of American Holocaust consciousness. Some scholars and survivors saw the contribution of feminist interpretation as necessary and valuable, while some dismissed it as distracting and trivial, and others rejected it outright as a disruptive threat. This had hugely significant consequences for the ways women’s experiences were or were not included in both scholarly works and public memorialization.” She also has moved into the classroom as an instructor

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