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Australia, Washington state, Texas, and back to Australia. With that said, I finally feel at home in Ocean Grove. How has the pandemic affected your move abroad?  Shortly after our move Australia experienced the devastating wildfires which were piggybacked by COVID-19 with strict lockdown rules still in place. We couldn’t have anticipated a year like this regardless of where we were living. Though I have zero regrets about making the move, Australian borders have been closed to international travel due

what I will do next. I could go into church music ministry or academia or become a music editor. I hope to take a few years to work and then attend graduate school.  My motto in life is to live your life and appreciate it. Life is too short to be worried about “what if” or “what could have been.” There is always a concern with making money as a musician. If I wanted to be rich, I would never have chosen music. Music is my vocation. It calls to me. My goal is to be happy and to never let music feel

Clover Park School District. It was very special. Clover Park is a very diverse district. I worked with second graders. I had a lot to learn as I changed from an observer to a full-time student teacher. I love reading and writing, and it was so fun to connect with the students through those subjects and through practices that elevated and uplifted the assets that each student brought to the table. Half of my students were multilingual learners (MLL). I learned strategies that promote meaning-making

still getting down into the weeds of IT projects and puzzle-solving? Oh yes, absolutely. That’s my favorite part of the job. It’s important that I understand the day-to-day challenges of making the technology work. At the same time, I’m always working with our business leaders to identify opportunities to accomplish more with technology. I think both sides of that equation are tremendously rewarding for me. I like getting into the weeds of something like network security and thinking about how we

for renovation, and in 2021, an anonymous lead gift moved renovations to the lab and other spaces in the Rieke Science Center to the front of the line for capital project improvements at PLU. “Teaching and learning practices have changed since the A&P lab was originally designed,” says Auman. “The upgrades we’re making within Rieke will not only provide better technology and collaborative distance-learning opportunities, they will also support more inclusive teaching practices and enhance learning

outreach and increase veteran visibility on campus. What are you most proud of from your time at PLU? When I was assembling the Veteran’s Day exhibit in the library last November, one student who started in the fall and had a rocky start to the year, who reminds me a lot of myself, was very appreciative of the time and effort put into the exhibit. I felt like I was making a difference by increasing veteran visibility and impacting the lives of the veteran students here. Read Previous PLU, TCC Announce

longer abduction but starvation due to a decline in Chinook salmon, their primary food source. Urgent action is needed, she says. Southern Resident orcas photographed near Vaughn bay by Emma Stafki ’24.  A Family AffairSince age 12, Stafki has been making films with her sister Annie, 5 years her junior. The duo entered many of these into the Gig Harbor Film Festival, which they won three times. Her sister — now a high school freshman — acted as co-producer and creator of “Echos of the Sound.” Getting

cranking out five introductions (one for each part of the Work) in the space of three months; we knew these would be crucial for allowing readers to understand Dupin’s context and appreciate her claims.  Wow, that is a lot of work! Yeah, and clearly, the jurors who selected our book for the 2024 French-American Foundation Translation Prize took a broad view of translation. They embraced all of the labor that went into making Dupin’s Work on Women accessible to English speakers, and we are so moved by

and work with landlords and property managers to get them approved for apartments. What goes into that work? A lot of it is done before the refugees arrive in the country. There is a lot of coordination with volunteers. We work with what we call U.S. ties of the family, so either a close friend or a family member, to determine the best place that we can settle them in. Then it’s about making sure their transition goes pretty smoothly during their first days here – helping them settle into a place

taught – though most only taught one semester of Acting for Non Majors. It was not long before the department realized they wanted to keep her on to teach for BFA students. The wait lists for her classes were long and students were bringing her techniques to rehearsals and other acting classes. She had begun making her impact and could not be more thrilled. In total, she taught eight semesters of Acting I and Acting II along with Directing, Voice, and Auditions. During this time she was also given