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a wide-leg stance. “Next, you want to look your attacker in the eyes. You can tell everything from the eyes.”For the next hour and a half, 30 Pacific Lutheran University students and community members gazed into the eyes of invisible threats as they practiced lunge movements, punches and blocks. It was the first class in a free five-week series focused on self defense practices and principles. Cordice — the instructor also known as a shihan — is teaching the classes, which are sponsored by the

spaces for performing, teaching, and rehearsing; a music library; an outdoor amphitheater; and the acoustically impressive Lagerquist Concert Hall, home to the Gottfried and Mary Fuchs Organ. What is the value of having these well-recognized masters of their field teaching students? In addition to receiving incredible feedback on their performances, students have heard artists discuss struggles with performance anxiety, issues with bias (racial and otherwise) in casting, and experiences of loneliness

sense of pride from graduating from PLU.”   PLU’s biology team primed Chontofalsky for success, particularly Professor Emeritus of Biology Angelia Alexander and the late Tom Carlson, also a professor emeritus of biology. “Students learned cool things from people who knew what they were talking about,” recalls Chontofalsky. “You could trust what they were teaching wasn’t just what they learned out of a book but from experience.” Chontofalsky still craves learning new things through hands-on

. In the Spring of 2020, Dr. Llewellyn Ihssen  was teaching two classes of Early Christian History. When the pandemic struck, Dr. Llewellyn Ihssen took her sixty students and moved them all to a distanced format immediately. Her main goals were to be in contact with students and to be extremely transparent during the entire process. This meant she took seriously the university’s concerns about what the pandemic would mean for classes, and gave her students plenty of warning before moving forward in

Fall 2023 Technology Workshops Posted by: rebardm / February 3, 2022 February 3, 2022 Fall 2023 Technology Workshops Information & Technology Services (I&TS) is offering a number of technology workshops in support of teaching and learning at PLU. All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend. For a complete listing of workshops, see the workshop flyer. The complete workshop calendar, course descriptions, and registration form can be found on our workshops page.  Workshops include a

voluntarily.”When PLU senior Kelsey Carlson gave Elaine Streich (pictured, left) a call two years ago after Streich had had a valve replacement, Carlson was surprised, but game. For all intents and purposes, Streich, 63, was trapped in her house. Her husband did all the shopping, attended social events for the pair and even had to help Streich, who lives in Tacoma, tie her shoes. Streich was struggling with the idea NOT drinking too much liquid in her daily diet, and dealing with chronic diabetes. The

Elvis Dun-Dery at a community cleanup event. The question stuck with Johnson during his time in Europe, and when a volunteer recruiter role opened up at the Indiana Red Cross, despite being “slightly overqualified,” he jumped at the opportunity. Yet the transition wasn’t without its difficulties: right before Johnson and his family moved back to the U.S., the first case of COVID-19 was found in Germany, in a small town where Johnson had just coached a basketball game. Johnson’s first years at the

, treatment, and prevention of environmental, tobacco-related, nutritional, newborn, selected chronic and selected infectious diseases. DLS also works to improve the rapid and accurate detection of chemical threat agents, radiologic threat agents, and selected toxins. In these areas, the laboratory has been in the vanguard of efforts to improve people’s health across the nation and around the world. Projects                                                            Participants will join laboratory teams

hangings, rugs, tools used in the preparation of these pieces, and several costume artifacts. As a special feature, Swedish tapestry weaver, Cecilia Blomberg, will display several of her exquisite tapestries. “Textiles are a huge part of the Scandinavian culture. Not only were/are they an essential part of a household in many areas, but also serve as an identity to the people,” said Linda Caspersen, one of the curators of the exhibition. “Clothing is worn for protection, status, and adornment and these

the ratings. Given the un-nuanced proposals coming out of the US Dept of Ed so far, it looks like the proposals will do great harm to colleges that try to provide access to low income students, or have programs in areas like social work, education, social entrepreneurship, and counseling that tend not to lead to high-paying jobs. College is not just a job skills factory. The fact that this proposed ranking system is opposed by presidents and faculty members from the full range of colleges–from