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untold, and they didn’t seem to care whether I had time for much else.” Walton describes herself as a collector of characters. “I’ll come across a name or a place or an occupation that catches my eye and I’ll write it down, or I’ll think, ‘Oh! That will fit with this character or inside this story,’” she says. “Recently I heard about a 58-year-old Parisian who works as the city’s only umbrella repairman. I love that.” Walton also says she can’t help but incorporate people she loves into the
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Global Opportunities for PLU Administrators & Staff J-Term 2023 Mexico, Andrea Michelbach J-Term 2020 Hawaii, Nicole Juliano Short-Term Study Away Program AssistantThis opportunity was created in 2003 as part of the university’s global and cross-cultural education initiatives. Administered through the Wang Center, it aims to provide PLU faculty and staff with a demonstrated interest in global education with the opportunity to participate in one of PLU’s short-term programs in a support capacity
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her mom was pursuing a degree in education. With musician parents, McTee grew up watching their band rehearsals. Her mom taught her the saxophone and how to transpose music. Applying to PLU for a degree in Music just made sense. Today, McTee’s award-winning compositions have been played by orchestras globally, including performances in Carnegie Hall five separate times. She has received numerous awards such as the Fulbright Senior Lecturer Fellowship to teach at the Academy of Music in Poland. It
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on board. So he worked out a plan with Dr. Frey and Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities Connie Gardner to co-teach the class, with one of his senior football players and captains, Anthony Louthan, serving as a peer co-instructor. “(You’ve) got Anthony, so now we have a peer for them, not just as a college student but also as this other (football) identity,” Dr. Frey said. “You’ve got Connie and I, who are excited to work with this group.You’ve got the head football coach who wants to
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Jeffery WrightJeffery (“Jeff”) Wright has been a professional humanitarian since the early 1990s. Since that time he has been involved as a front-line practitioner in many of the high-profile emergency and humanitarian responses that most Western audiences would have heard of (and perhaps a few that Western audiences would not have heard of). Apart from a brief detour as Country Director for an INGO development portfolio, his career has been entirely focused on humanitarian and emergency
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neighboring people have several traditions in common with the Yaka, and may be easily mistaken. This mask in the PLU Collection is one of three styles used by the Yaka people of the northern Congo in the Mukanda coming of age ceremony, in which boys are circumcised. There are two classes of adult leader figures, who wear different masks, as well as the initiates’ masks, which are danced at the ceremonies. The leaders’ masks are slightly pared down versions of the initiates’ masks. There are several
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José Curiel Morelos Executive Director of Campus Safety & Emergency Management Phone: 253-535-8787 Email: curielmorelos@plu.edu Biography Biography I am a first generation college graduate. I was born in Mexico and came to the states as a child. Grew up in Oregon for most of my life. I am married and have a daughter. The most common question I get asked is “Is campus safe?” We all have our own definitions and expectations of what it means to truly be and feel safe. In short, I would say PLU is
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Recipient 2015-2016, Pacific Lutheran University Awarded a DAAD research grant to study with Professors Axel Honneth and Hermann Deuser at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main Biography Mike Schleeter began teaching as an Assistant Professor at PLU in 2011, having received a B.A. in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Biology from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Penn State University. He regularly teaches courses in ethics, social and political
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By Genny Boots ‘18 and Kate Williams ‘16 Lark Powers joins the music faculty as the new piano instructor at PLU. She will be teaching the keyboarding sequence as well as piano lessons for students. What is your background? I grew up in Northern California in Humboldt county, on the coast close to the Oregon border. Growing up, I studied both piano and violin. I attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California and then lived in Paris for three years studying piano. From there, I
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Ethiopia before completing his Ph.D. in Curriculum Leadership at the University of Denver. He has been teaching at PLU since 1998. He teaches sociology of education and multicultural education. His academic interests include international education, cultural globalization, and education reform. He writes curriculum activities for secondary social studies teachers, as well as reviews, essays, and commentaries about social studies education, international education, and education reform. In addition to
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