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2012 Northwest Horn Symposium PLU and SOAC will host the 2012 Northwest Horn Symposium from March 30-April 1. The weekend, filled with master classes, guided warm-up sessions, presentations, and performances, will draw horn players from across the region. Three performances are connected with the symposium,…
-edge topics that will both inform and inspire teachers and students alike. One unique opportunity will be the presence of the iVasi system, which is an audio-visual presentation of an orchestral playing situation. Hornists can play along with a recording of an orchestra while watching a conductor on the screen. This is about as close as one can come to getting practice as an orchestral horn player without actually practicing with an orchestra. Read Previous Opening a window, when the door goes
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By Layne Nordgren Turnitin provides originality- and plagiarism-checking for student papers and includes a set of online tools for faculty to provide in-context feedback for students. For PLU courses, Turnitin can be enabled as an option when creating a Sakai Assignment . On June 3,…
called Turnitin: Feedback Studio to reflect the integration of originality reports and grading functions into the same interface. Originality Reports will be renamed Similarity Reports to more accurately describe relationships between submitted papers and text matched in Turnitin database sources. And since GradeMark is no longer a separate product in Feedback Studio, its features (for providing grading feedback to students) will simply be known as Grading. Screen Layout and Tool Location Feedback
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New nursing labs raise the bar When the School of Nursing ordered 10 new hospital beds for its improved nursing laboratory, the process of moving them into the third-floor space of Ramstad Commons didn’t appear to pose a challenge. But once the computerized Stryker hospital…
extended forklift was brought in to carefully maneuver all the beds through it. The state-of-the art equipment is one piece of the School of Nursing’s new Learning Resource Center Complex. The facility, a collection of three redesigned and upgraded nursing laboratories, encompasses what were once seven rooms designated as laboratory space to teach the school’s 350-plus nursing students. The cutting-edge facility was funded through a $300,000 gift from an anonymous donor last spring. The gift’s legacy
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Why a high-flying Wall Street investment banker chose to teach at PLU By Chris Albert There’s a little letter ‘m’ on Kevin Boeh’s American Airlines frequent flier card. Even though it’s hardly noticeable, it signifies a pretty unique club – more than one million miles…
investment banking, he can be sure to stay on the cutting-edge of the trade. Then, he can pass that information to his students. “I fully intend to stay 110 percent engaged,” Boeh said. “The beauty of this profession is that you can be relevant in the industry.” His goal is to make sure each of his students leaves school with at least one internship, and is ready to work from day-one of their careers. And he expects a full commitment from his students when it comes to learning. “You should come into my
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A backstage peek behind “A Streetcar Named Desire” By Loren Liden ’11 The PLU theater department added a dramatic splash to campus with month with the opening of the last play of the season, Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Well known in any performance…
set and dress the stage for a rehearsal fight. The actors rehearse, clear the stage, check their props, and then it’s back to Rud and the running crew to sweep and mop, and set the stage for the opening act. Rud stressed the importance of placing props. “There’s a constant anxiety that keeps you on edge, having to know which prop goes on stage when,” Rud said. “We had a couple of slip-ups on Saturday.” He and the other supernumeraries that also are part of the running crew have more to worry about
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Tacoma, WASH. (August 29, 2016) — Washington Monthly’s annual college guide ranks Pacific Lutheran University 15th nationally on its list of “Best Master’s Universities,” according to a report published Monday. It also ranked PLU the 72nd “Best Bang for the Buck” institution among western colleges.…
rankings, according to Carey’s article, are based on what the institutions did for their country, not for themselves. The information aggregated by the Washington Monthly focuses on three broad categories: Social mobility: recruiting and graduating low-income students; Research: producing cutting-edge scholarship and Ph.D.s; and Service: encouraging students to give something back to their country. The report released Monday ranked PLU, among other master’s universities, fifth for number of alumni who
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Lutes often find ways to show gratitude to the community that supported their education, but Justin Foster ’02 got started early. An entrepreneur, marketer, and technology developer, he has been an active supporter of PLU and the School of Business since graduation. “I received a…
entrepreneur, marketer, and technology developer, he has been an active supporter of PLU and the School of Business since graduation. “I received a lot of value from my time at PLU,” he explained. “I just think it’s important to give back.” Foster has mentored students and interns, spoken to classes, advised campus organizations, and donated funds for technology equipment at the cutting-edge Class of 1958 Finance Lab with Bloomberg Terminal in the School of Business. His favorite experiences have involved
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Stuart Gavidia is a first generation Latino student and spent most of his life in Lakewood and then Spanaway, about 10 minutes from PLU, and he knew he wanted to come here for college, so he could remain close to his family. From an early…
gained his first experience in technology at Pierce County as a Software Development Intern. “I worked as part of the I.T. department, and I got to work with many front-end and back-end technologies.” Gavidia interned at Amazon on the Alexa Notifications team during the summer following his sophomore year. He contributed to a project involving cutting-edge facial recognition technologies. “It was a complicated project, but it was very rewarding, too,” Gavidia says. During the fall of his junior year
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The University Gallery opened its fall semester’s final show with the annual Juried Student Exhibition on November 16, 2016. Works will be on display until December 14, 2016. The exhibition is open to the university community, as well as the general public. Students not only compete to…
craftsmanship integrating form and function. Exhibition Run: November 16, 2016- December 14, 2016 Location: Pacific Lutheran University, University Gallery. On the edge of north campus on the corner of 8th Ave. Ct St. and 121st St. S. Suggested parking lot: Wheeler at Wheeler and 121st, lot is open to the public after 4:30p.m. Regular Hours: 8 a.m.–4 p.m., Mon.–Fri* First place award, "Queens of te Land and Sea" by Jenny Kimura and Tahle Oestby in the juried student art show at PLU, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016
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We are grateful to the family of Jeanette Pilgrim, who donated her personal harpsichord to the Music Department. This unique instrument constructed by Kenneth Bakeman in 1980 has two keyboards and a pedal division with painted motifs on the lid and soundboard. Instruments built by…
level of strings operated by pedals and an upper level manipulated by two keyboards. The underside of the lid has been painted with six angels each playing an instrument. Two are hidden when the lid is fully opened and folded back. The soundboard nature motifs under the strings include flowers, birds, mushrooms, butterflies, and a slug. On the outside of the instrument, a solid dark green paint is decorated along each edge with a graphic gold border. The Pilgrim family’s ties to PLU run deep—Mrs
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