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and perform with the composer is such a unique experience, Powell said. “The students were so excited about it,” Powell said. “The music is very different and that’s a good thing. I’ve never heard anything like it before.” Gjeilo was born in Norway. In 2001, he moved to New York to study composition at the Juilliard School. He’s composed more than 30 published works, which have been performed worldwide. In all, the more than 100,000 copies of his works have been sold since 2007. “I am so excited

, multicultural experience. It really drove home that even small, personal actions can be used to shape our sense of who we are. Though we share a lot of the same worries and concerns with the students who visited from China, there were still remarkable differences in our day-to-day lives. I think that demonstrates the breadth of the human experience.” The idea for the activity—and its speed-dating format—originated as a way to diversify the experiences of the students’ tours. Generally, students brought by

quality and the small university atmosphere. “The liberal arts component of the program has a progressive feel to me, and that means a lot of me,” said Smith just before students started arriving on campus this month. “I feel very strongly that the liberal arts component should be a part of the nursing program,” she said. “Nursing is a very complex field and there needs to be an understanding of human nature and the complexities of the human experience. “To do this work well, you need to be well

, spent the day with the Korean Women’s Association, a nonprofit organization that provides a variety of services to marginalized individuals throughout Western Washington. “I wanted to do the job shadow specifically because I’m a senior, and I don’t have a specific track or job planned out,” Nabass said.  Nabass met the agency’s leaders and a few of their clients, gaining greater insight into KWA’s mission. “This experience opened my eyes to what is out there, as long as you know where and how to

Printmaking professor pens book on feminist history Posted by: Reesa Nelson / December 6, 2016 December 6, 2016 By Mollie Smith ’17 and Mandi LeCompteThe project started during the run-up to the 2008 Presidential election. Jessica Spring, visiting instructor of art and design and Elliott Press manager at PLU, discovered a quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she felt summed up the election cycle nicely: “Come, come my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is

best it provides a false sense of security. One way to discourage cheating is to design assessments that are unique and authentic, requiring higher order thinking skills like synthesis, analysis, or the creation of original content. For written work, Turnitin’s Originality Check (via Sakai Assignments) is a popular tool to discourage plagiarism and cheating. An option for multiple choice assessments is to use “question pools” where assessment questions are drawn randomly from a large pool of

the scenes. In the campus studio, we flipped over a whiteboard and brought in lights to set the scene. One thing we underestimated was the time it would take to actually cut out the felt objects and design each part of the story, but once they were completed, the actual shooting was not difficult. Campus photographer John Froschauer even paid us a visit to document the production! We laid down each scene, one by one, and took about 60 images for every segment using a remote attached to the camera

support their transition and success, providing opportunities to forge meaningful relationships with peers and staff, and helping to deepen their sense of belonging in their first semester at PLU.Learn more: PLUS 100The Quigg Award funding will expand professional development, hire and train TAs, and support mixed data collection methods, including weekly feedback and regular focus group opportunities to connect with students and instructors to help co-design the future of PLUS 100.DataFest

faculty working together,” Reisberg said. The design started with using flexible furniture for breaking into multiple small groups and other configurations. And those desk tops of the past are no longer part of the set-up. Instead laptops are used and the wireless network for the space meets the needs of 25 simultaneous uses. The whiteboards have been replaced by a smart board for computer-assisted board work. The video conferencing available, that saved the J-Term class, has saved the grades of more

wall” for the human race. As much of a task as it is for humans to view themselves as part of life rather than commanders of life, the concept of dominating the natural world is a relatively new view, he noted. It’s only been in the last century, during the industrial age, that humans started to view the Earth as a commodity, Rasmussen said. As such, “nature is rendered more, not less, vulnerable,” he said. And Earth is becoming less tolerant of these abuses, Rasmussen added. “We have a design