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to include children in junior primary (grades K-3), she initially felt daunted at the prospect. She had taught in classrooms for less than a year. Yet she remembers thinking, “You know what? If they want this, what’s stopping me from achieving my goal as a music educator, which is access for all? I will take on this opportunity with as much grace as I can.” As an avid traveler—she has visited ten countries in 24 years—Delos Reyes chose PLU because of study away opportunities like the School of

challenge I would not give up,” Marzano said. “This is what I love to do and this is what I’m here at school to study doing. I try to view them as kind of in the same boat. I’m here learning what I’m doing at 7 p.m. that night. The only thing that is a bummer is the commute. That’s the only downside. Everything else, all the time I put in rehearsing, is just the name of the game. I learn no matter what I’m doing.” Marzano, who has performed at the Vashon Opera, Lakewood Playhouse and at PLU, has already

Untitled, Model in the Studio, painting various drawings and paintings can be seen around the model. Besides these works being used to create the overall composition, these drawings and paintings are done to isolate and work out parts of the painting that may prove difficult when tackling the whole. A portrait study on pink paper is seen on the table and a portrait painting is seen over her left shoulder. Drawings working on the whole composition can be seen on the floor and over the models right

designs and, each day, endeavor to design something more elaborate, more beautiful. Thirumurthy uses the kolam to describe something else – something for which she earned a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to study in her native India. She uses the kolam to describe what is called “funds of knowledge” – the idea that children, especially young girls, gain knowledge not simply in the classroom, but through their family and their culture. In the case of the kolam, children learn not just

the similar goal of, as Torvend likes to say, “allowing students, faculty, and staff to pause and ponder meaning and purpose in life – something few places cultivate.” The Center for Vocation will also focus on training faculty and staff through workshops, study seminars on Lutheran Higher education and the like. Early on, organizers realized that, to be truly impactful, PLU needed to support faculty and staff – after all, they are the ones who are here year-after-year. “We have worked to train

the field of sports psychology. “Because of the passion she brings to the table and the experience she brings to the table, she gets everyone excited. I had no idea sports psychology was even a profession. I always knew you needed to be mentally tough, but I didn’t know there was a whole field of study,” Leslie said. “By having someone teach it to us who has first-class and world-class experience really opened my eyes to how cool it was and interested I was in it.” Using her work with

role as co-founder and chief strategy officer before Google purchased the operating system in July 2005. Sears remained involved at Google, working on Android product development and marketing. By every account, Sears spent more than seven years creating and perfecting the modern-day smartphone. He credits PLU with helping him get there. “I came to PLU to study business,” Sears said, “but I left with a lot more than a (Bachelor of Business Administration).” Now, another former Lute has inspired his

Samuel Torvend, Ph.D., ’73 has spent his life studying religion and politics. “I wrote my senior thesis on religion and politics and I have never strayed from that,” Torvend said. The alumnus and longtime professor will be talking about, what else, religion and politics for his farewell lecture as the chair of the Lutheran Studies department. Torvend was appointed chair in 2011 by the Board of Regents, which created the department in an effort to study Lutheran history and heritage. Torvend will

universities across the U.S. Eight Namibians who were part of this sponsored program graduated from PLU. Laura Sorgenfrei ’08 with her grade 1 support class at Van Rhyn Elementary in Windhoek, Namibia. In the years since, this history of educational exchange has continued via USAID grant-supported teacher development programs, study away programs and Fulbright scholarships. Yet the Uukumwe Project is unique—not only for its focus on teachers, rather than students, but also because for every American

Study Computer Science at PLU? With small class sizes, dedicated and caring faculty and an excellent curriculum, studying Computer Science at PLU prepares students for limitless possibilities! “Dr. Caley was so proactive, and he gave me, and other students, opportunities. He gets you connected with the right people,” Gavidia says. “Dr. Lytle, though he’s not in computer science, he was instrumental in helping me navigate college experiences and also having interesting discussions about the