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TACOMA, WASH. (March 2, 2016)- Co-founder of Android and Pacific Lutheran University graduate Nick Sears took the technology world by storm when he teamed up with inventors Andy Rubin and Chris White to market and launch Android, one of the world’s top operating systems for…
role as co-founder and chief strategy officer before Google purchased the operating system in July 2005. Sears remained involved at Google, working on Android product development and marketing. By every account, Sears spent more than seven years creating and perfecting the modern-day smartphone. He credits PLU with helping him get there. “I came to PLU to study business,” Sears said, “but I left with a lot more than a (Bachelor of Business Administration).” Now, another former Lute has inspired his
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:00 PM. Dr. Dollinger has also published on Black American and Jewish American relations (Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, 2018) and Jewish struggles for inclusion in U.S. culture (The Quest for Inclusion: Jews and Liberalism in Modern America, 2000). His forthcoming book addresses Antisemitism in U.S. culture.BiographyDr. Marc Dollinger, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University I’m Marc Dollinger and I get to teach
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The 2018 Jazz Under the Stars series will begin on Thursday, July 19 in the outdoor amphitheater of the Mary Baker Russell Music Center at PLU. This annual summer concert series is FREE to the public, as it is PLU’s gift to the community. The…
several recordings as a composer and leader of his Quinteto and others in collaboration with musicians such as Mike Marshall, Bill Frisell, Gretchen Parlato, Paquito d’Rivera and many more. As a worldwide performer and lecturer, Jovino has received numerous commissions and awards for his work for orchestras, soloists, chamber ensembles and for his Quinteto. Jovino’s music blends contemporary harmonies and improvisations with a rich variety of Brazilian rhythmic languages. Learn moreJuly 26: LaVon
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PLU music major decides to jazz up his life For Bryan McEntire, choosing to be a jazz player wasn’t much of a choice. In fact, the Pacific Lutheran University junior feels the craft chose him. He remembers his grandfather had an old saxophone in his…
. “After a few years of playing (jazz) everything fell into place,” McEntire said recently. He said he draws inspiration from professors, as well as classes, and has found a mentor in sax professor Robert Miller, who he met during his freshman and sophomore years. “I view him as a contemporary helping me along my path,” McEntire said. “He was, and still is, a mentor. Instead of just helping me with techniques and giving me tips to play better, he taught me about how one can view jazz as a parallel to
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I first met Claire in 2003 when she was a student in my course on the history of early Christianity (50-600 C.E.).
created an ethic of care that was quite attractive. Students in the course were engaged in service learning in order to study why and how contemporary Christian groups continue these social initiatives through assisting the growing population of hungry people in Pierce County, protecting women and children who had left abusive relationships for “safe” houses, and caring for persons struggling with HIV-AIDS. Claire had chosen a food distribution center as her service learning site, that is, until the
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Ms. Noujaim has dedicated her life to directing and producing films in the United States and the Middle East.
. The Square was nominated for an Academy Award, won the Directors Guild Award, the International Documentary Award and became the first film to ever win the Audience Award at both Sundance and the Toronto Film Festival. Noujaim continues to work in the US and in the Middle East as an executive producer for such films as Encounter Point and Budrus, which premiered as one of the ten films in the Why Democracy series that focused on contemporary democracy around the globe. For her filmmaking work, she
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Instructor: Dr. Gina Gillie Office: MBR 339 Office Hours: by appointment Phone: 253-535-7607 (x7607) E-mail: gilliegc@plu.edu
subsets of horn performance such as natural horn, jazz horn, advanced orchestral excerpts, contemporary solos, chamber music, and original compositions. Lessons require that you put forth a great deal of effort for your own advancement. While I will exhaust all of my resources to give you the best education on the horn that I can, you must meet that energy with your own, and add to it outside of the studio time. I have a great passion for this instrument and also for the music that has been written
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Recently, chemistry major Jackie Lindstrom found herself in Oxford, England, conducting a series of informational interviews with public health representatives from Oxfam and the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations advisory agency that promotes international cooperation on migration. Traveling under a Wang Center Research…
fall 2021, and through the Wang Center’s Gateway Program, she traveled to Oaxaca in spring 2022. At Oxford, a class on forced migration and refugee studies spurred Jackie to apply for the Wang Center grant, and in Oaxaca, a literature course on United States-Mexico migration relations showed her another side of migration. They’re the kind of experiences Jackie might not have had without the benefit of a PLUS Year, a year of free tuition for undergraduates studying during COVID. “I used it to be
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PLU’s choral program has a long history of success, and is recognized regionally and nationally for its excellence in ensemble performance, academic structure and rigor, and placement of graduates
students experience a thorough curriculum, taught by a highly qualified and cohesive full-time and adjunct faculty. Highlights of the choral music education degree include courses in elementary music methods and materials, secondary choral methods, secondary choral literature, vocal pedagogy, and four semesters of conducting. This is one of the most extensive undergraduate choral music education degrees available. PLU graduates are consistently placed in outstanding elementary and secondary school
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Associate Dean, School of Music, Theatre & Dance; Director of Choral Studies; Professor of Music | Chorale | galante@plu.edu | 253-535-7603 | Dr.
, Choral Methods and Choral Literature. Dr. Galante continues to find success and acclaim as a composer and arranger. His compositions are published by GalanteMusic, Walton, Colla Voce Music, and Pavane Publishing; have been performed by professional, collegiate, and advanced high school choirs throughout the United States and Europe; and recorded for commercial release by Delos, Centaur Records, MSR Classic, and PLU Media. He is the recipient of multiple ASCAP Plus awards, and a regular composer-in
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