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gaze meets ours. She embraces her pet rabbit with the maternal protectiveness of her eighteenth-century counterpart. The rabbit’s eye is positioned in such a way that hers and Johnson’s eyes form a triangular composition that aligns them with the white neoclassical column at the center. Carriera’s aquamarine color scheme is also transferred to the poster as is a chiaroscuro gesture in how Johnson casts a shadow, setting her face and the rabbit’s white fur in bright contrast. The most notable

life. “It’s really powerful,” she said. Hall grew up on traditional Samish lands, ancestral areas around Anacortes, Washington, and the San Juan Islands. She first connected with her tribe in 2003, but for a long time didn’t embrace all that came with her Native American identity. It wasn’t until a decade later, through her studies at Pacific Lutheran University, that Hall reconnected with the Samish on a deeper level. A class on myths, rituals and symbols with her mentor — Suzanne Crawford O’Brien

setting where each student desires to feel valued and seen. “I learned that it is important to get to know your students — you have to build relationships before you can teach them anything. I want them to feel comfortable with my presence in the class — I have to build trust,” Knapp explained. “One of my professors during my freshman year said, ‘Your students do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.’ “That has always been something I think about when I step into a classroom

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additional areas of interest for Cornell-Maier: a business class, a graphic design course, writing for the Innovation blog Halvorson started that’s dedicated to highlighting student questions, offering helpful advice and identifying pathways into the minor. “You get a lot of questions when you say you’re an Innovative Studies minor, because few students know what it is,” Cornell-Maier said. “They’re curious and innovation is a buzzword right now.” As a member of the minor’s inaugural cohort, Cornell

concentration in finance. What prompted that switch? Accounting just wasn’t for me. I am not a human calculator. When I took my first finance class, the professor told me I should do finance. I took a couple more advanced finance classes and went, “I want to do finance.”When did you add the double major in economics? I was taking economics courses for my business degree, and Dr. Priscilla St. Clair—huge shoutout to her—pushed me to think about how humans make choices. I thought that intersected with

Cliff Rowe. She described the city as “the epitome of wealth.” “Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Times Square have nothing on Dubai,” she wrote in a Jan. 9th post. “The architecture, the shopping, the city’s structure itself; every aspect demonstrates money, power, and high, high class.” Within this wealthy society, Knutson doesn’t see value placed on environmental stewardship or sustainability. The city built three man-made structures off its coastline and has large numbers of skyscrapers are under

others.” The Bensons each came to PLU from modest and devoted Lutheran families, intending to become teachers. They met on campus in a bowling class, Jolita said. Dale says it was in chorus singing under R. Byard Fritts. The couple has been together ever since. They graduated in 1963 – Dale to attend graduate school at the University of Maine and begin a career as a professor of history, Jolita to teach kindergarten and first grade. Before long, they decided that Jolita would step out of the

Prize in 2010, and how that conversation played out in both Chinese and Norwegian cultures from first-hand accounts. World Conversations gave attendees the opportunity to engage in real world conversations with those who have first-hand experience. Rowe recalled a Chinese student in attendance who talked about his childhood growing up in China. “You don’t get that out of a book,” Rowe said. “That’s not going to happen in any one class, but when you bring people together like that it creates a great

and Nelson was able to get financial aid and a scholarship to make the financial transition. Instrumental in her development of her passion for service was a psychology class with Professor Jon Grahe and working with children at Thompson Elementary in Parkland. “Working with those children, and in that program, it changed everything for me,” said Nelson, who graduated with a degree in psychology. “I knew that I wasn’t going to be a research scientist then.” The climate at PLU also encouraged