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feel really lucky that the Theatre department provided opportunities for interaction with working theatre artists. I specifically loved Bryce Pinkham’s masterclass. I felt so lucky to be able to work a monologue with a successful professional in the field. I learned so much about auditioning and my favorite piece of advice was to use your monologue to achieve your objective. Bryce noted that watching the journey of tactics and then achieving what you want is a super exciting audition.  —Cassie

struggling in times of upheaval. Composer Gregory Youtz has merged the musical languages of Western Classical music with deep aspects of Chinese musical tradition to create a rich musical language that speaks across time and culture. The full-length opera production, directed by PLU Opera Director James Brown, will be performed by a talented cast of singers, with the University Chorale directed by PLU Professor Brian Galante as the chorus, and a professional chamber orchestra of 14 musicians. Central to

matter what I’m doing.” Marzano, who has performed at the Vashon Opera, Lakewood Playhouse and at PLU, has already been invited to perform in Seattle Opera’s summer production, The Ring, which is set to run Aug. 4 to 25. “I hope to be in as many productions as I can before I go off to grad school,” said Marzano, who will graduate in the fall. “Right now it’s all about experience, getting out there and going through the motions and doing this stuff, so when I do become a professional opera singer and

professional concert series, now in its 16th year, focuses on the wealth of jazz talent in the Northwest, as well as nationally known performers with PLU connections. The 16th Annual Jazz Under the Stars Summer Concert Series When: 7-9 p.m. Thursdays, July 10-Aug. 14. Where: Mary Baker Russell Amphitheatre, Pacific Lutheran University. Admission: Free. The concerts are sponsored by the PLU Department of Music and KPLU 88.5 FM and are held at 7 p.m. Thursdays from July 10-Aug. 14 at the open-air Mary Baker

patient’s mother put her on her current path. The woman had been reading about vaccines on the Internet, and she was worried that they might be harmful to her child. McFadden’s need to convince her otherwise went beyond her professional obligation; her aunt and uncle wore leg braces and needed crutches thanks to polio, a disease they had contracted in the early 1950s before the introduction of Jonas Salk’s vaccine. “It was a really challenging conversation,” McFadden recalled. “I firmly believe that

feel really lucky that the Theatre department provided opportunities for interaction with working theatre artists. I specifically loved Bryce Pinkham’s masterclass. I felt so lucky to be able to work a monologue with a successful professional in the field. I learned so much about auditioning and my favorite piece of advice was to use your monologue to achieve your objective. Bryce noted that watching the journey of tactics and then achieving what you want is a super exciting audition.  —Cassie

faculty help mentor students in these projects and relationships, and they are really neat professional experiences embedded in our courses.”One of the many new PLU business initiatives Mulder is excited about is called Nourish, a new program that prepares students to be effective consultants. Nourish matches teams of two to three students with woman-owned and/or minority-owned businesses, many of which have been recommended by the local Chamber of Commerce. “For these students, being a great

to the graduate program at Portland State University. She sees her life in phases, she said, and hopes her (future) professional experience in government—Europe, the State Department or the U.N.—eventually brings her back to academia, where she’d like to teach. In the immediate future, she and her cohort colleague Samardich are researching the movement of women in peace-building with a focus on Kenya and plan to present their research at graduate conferences during the next academic year. ANNA

at a high level. Whether you are a performing artist, musician, student, or in your career, I think the opportunities to work on mental performance are endless and seeking a mental skills consultant could be beneficial. Zach Willis '19 The Department of KinesiologyThe primary mission of the Department of Kinesiology(KINS) is to provide quality academic professional preparation for undergraduate students in areas related to the study of human movement, especially as it supports the pursuit of

,” stated Kop. “The purpose of the Bahtinov Mask is to assist in focusing on objects seen through the telescope. This ensures that the stars I was imaging had a normal appearance of a circular dot; this particular mask was 3D-printed by Matthew Hacker.”Observing the Moon:“I am using the observatory desktop computer to utilize a free software package known as AstroImageJ, a professional astronomy program that I used extensively throughout this summer to compute data for my research,” said Kop. “The image