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European instrumental Jewish music of the 19th and 20th centuries. Afterward, there will be a performance by the Tales of the Alchemyst Theatre Group. The annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education offers lessons on the Holocaust to challenge prejudices, violence, and other forms of dehumanization. Each conference features prominent scholars whose research focuses on the Holocaust. Conference sessions also highlight interdisciplinary approaches to Holocaust and Genocide Studies, with
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health, and sometimes physical health, but when there’s such limited access because of hardships, it’s hard for the kids to connect to it.” Many of the campers represent Parkland’s Franklin-Pierce School District, where students typically receive about 45 minutes of music class per week. The PLU students saw the need to help fill that gap, and armed with their own experiences of taking music lessons, they devised a plan to bring the camp back to life. “While growing up, my sister and I went to a lot
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,” Brown said. “They are now going to walk out of PLU not only with their degree, but an understanding of all dimensions, not just the one they’re trained in.” Iren Atemad, one of this year’s participants, agrees. “One of the lessons learned in these early stages of the competition is that everything depends on everything else,” she said. “This has made me understand the complexity of the business environment and how a team of executives truly manages a business.” Finance faculty member Kevin Boeh led
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. She’s learned to record Zoom lessons, sharpened her Google Docs skills, and misses the real-life campus interactions. She’s also had to pass on accepting the prestigious Fulbright scholarship she was offered because coronavirus-related travel restrictions would delay her service as an English as a Second Language Assistant in Mexico, where she also planned a secondary study of the water quality. But Cheney-Irgens, who was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and chose PLU for its beauty and
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. Despite learning online, the lessons stuck. “The goal of Innovation Studies is to help us be creative and multiply our impact through teaming and social initiatives,” she said. “I was hooked!” Lund continued to experiment with clothing design and her friends began to notice. During Winter 2020, she decided to advertise some of her hand-made products to people in the Oslo area. The response was strong enough that she launched Elskthestudio.com, a clothing business focused on women’s fashion and
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and conducts a few pieces. He also encourages students to learn a secondary instrument, as versatility is important for music educators. When asked for his best advice for students embarking on a career in music education he had a few words of wisdom. “Become the best musician you can. Take that role seriously,” Gerhardstein said. “Start developing your teaching resume in small ways, whether it’s going back to your home town to teach lessons, or coaching students here on a secondary instrument
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for seven years and began with teaching private flute lessons, she noticed a need in her community for a math tutor and decided to use her teaching experience and math skills to fill that need. “I’m trying to address a lot of the needs that will come from distance learning. Many students really need the one on one guidance that is much easier to give while in-person teaching, especially in larger zoom calls it can be easy for kids to feel lost or unheard” Balut said. “ I’m hoping to offer
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Holocaust Distortion and Denial. Events will include presentations by two of the most prominent Holocaust scholars in the world, Dr. Yehuda Bauer and Dr. Christopher Browning. The conference will close with a panel featuring research projects by student recipients of the Kurt Mayer Summer Scholarship. The annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education provides educators, students, and community members a way to use the lessons of the Holocaust to empower themselves and others to challenge
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instructor at the Port Townsend Jazz Camp and Festival. Ramsay intersects his performing with stints as an in-demand arranger, conductor and clinician. Along the way, he has earned credits on the Concord Records label, as well as numerous regional and international recordings. Ramsay is a longtime performer on baritone saxophone with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra, and works with the Seattle Symphony on woodwinds in their POPs concerns. He was inducted into Earshot’s Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame in
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this March in St. Louis, Missouri. At an intimate gathering of no more than 30 PKD members, surrounded by photos and memorabilia of a long-lived, well-loved organization, Bartanen was inducted into the centennial hall of fame. With humor and humility he addressed the closest members of his PKD family, thanking them for the honor and sharing the story of his first experience with forensics. “[After my first debate] I understood my vocation, I understood the life lessons of what we do in this
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