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and Communication, Multicultural Recruitment, and the Department of Music, the concert features the PLU university orchestra, wind ensemble, jazz ensemble, and Chorale. It will also feature Tacoma talent steel drum artist Obe Quarless, vocalist Marlette Buchanan, and DaNell Daymon and the Greater Works Chorale. After emancipation and the end of the Civil War continuing racism and economic rivalry thwarted African-American achievement at every turn. Entertainment was an appealing and viable option
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charters. Aug. 14 The Jazz Sound Trio with Special L.A. Artists Ginger Berglund & Scott Whitfield The Jazz Sound Trio is comprised of PLU faculty members David Deacon-Joyner on piano, Clipper Anderson on bass and Mark Ivester on drums. In this performance, the trio will back Scott Whitfield, one of the world’s greatest jazz trombonists, and his wife, Ginger Berglund, the newest addition to the legendary Modernaires. Read Previous The End of an Era Read Next A Flutist’s Unplanned Path to Success LATEST
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thing you are doing after commencement? Studying for my MCAT. I know, it does not sound like the most exciting thing ever. I want to make sure I get everything done so I can start the next chapter of my life.Anything else you want to share? I think the friends [I met] along the way were some of the most important experiences. And, I think making that connection: if something is not in the cards for me at the moment, it is not the end of the world. I like knowing that things can change, things happen
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February 23, 2009 Making strides at a feverish pace To say Maureen Francisco, ’99, is a go getter would be selling her short. A list of her accomplishments runs long and seems to have no end. She calls it just a start to her “things she wants to do before she dies list.” She’s always wanted to run in a marathon. Well, she’s run in four. She wanted to be a television reporter and has done work in multiple markets. She wanted to work for a non-profit. She’s the media director for Child United
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species of fish might have been in a given stream. For example, some fish populations may have started developing 5 million years ago, when glaciations isolated the area, he said. As the only professor who will have her feet firmly planted on dry land, and neck craned into the hair, Julie Smith will be researching red crossbills, which have developed a unique ability to pry seeds out of different type of pine cones through their moniker – a bill that crosses at the end. Smith is interested if
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qpbWZRC_dw I was driving in my old car to the university as a poor student. The car had holes in the floor due to rust, so when it was raining, I had to put on rubber shoes. I did this one day, because it was pouring. And I did it the day after. And I had to do it for weeks on end, and ever day that autumn. One day I couldn’t stop laughing, looking at myself in my rubber shoes in the wet car. It was fantastic; It was raining every day, and I hurried to my fellow students, so filled
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time, Panetta announced that each branch of the armed forces would establish a Special Victims Unit. While these are promising first steps, much more needs to be done. To that end, The Invisible War is a call for our civilian and military leadership to listen. And to act.” Read Previous “A University of the First Rank” Read Next Pacific Lutheran University Inaugural Address COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are
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part of. “Branching out into the community like this is really great,” Yaden said. “We know the majority of what our students do with their education happens outside the classroom.” Walker said, being a part of an event like this allows students to show what they’ve learned and share that with the community. “I think what it best highlights is we have this living and learning community at PLU,” Yaden said. “This is 100 percent driven by them with no carrot at the end of the stick. That’s just what
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romance. (Really.) When Gregson started the project, she assumed the subject matter would be squarely in her sex-and-gender wheelhouse. Essentially, she’d find out: Who are these women who write these novels? And how do they decide to create the characters that they do? What she found, however, is that romance authors aren’t thinking about gender archetypes. They just want to tell a compelling story, like any author. That dead end, however, led Gregson down a different path – one that may be even more
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such agencies to U.S. schools are seated in lecture halls and spoken to en masse. The problem with this, Meyer said, is that it disallows the visiting students, many of whom are only children with strong familial ties, a real feel for the type of students they could end up with at college. At the event, the students faced each other in pairs, communicating in English. “The questions were not too hard, and the Chinese high-school students spoke pretty good English,” Meyer said. “When they didn’t
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