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– that gave the Gates Foundation its primary mission. And so the revolution in global health began. Dr. William Foege ’57, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the man who developed the public health strategy that led to the global eradication of smallpox (and, it must be noted here, a PLU grad), had been an early adviser to the Gates family. One of the things Foege did was give to them a 1993 report by the World Bank that described the social and economic impact
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and strategic planning. These skills I have transferred to the many internships and volunteer opportunities I have been fortunate to be involved in. I have made friends from across the globe; China, Namibia and Korea to say the least and have been adopted off campus whole-heartedly by the magnificent Bronner family. Mom, I missed you so much, but the love and support I have received both inside and outside of the classroom walls is indescribable. The Lute Dome has become my home, fostering my
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to e-mail them regularly, share ideas and findings, and collaborate on research and writing projects. After French scholar Ivan Jablonka and I met in Sweden, we began e-mailing about the idea of collaborating on a comparative history of early 20th-century adoption institutions. Similarly, several Australian and Canadian researchers and I are planning to present papers on various international aspects of adoption at the forthcoming 5th Biennial Conference on the History Childhood and Youth in
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at the American Academy of Religion conference and the American Chemical Society conference. Because of connections I’d made with faculty, I was recommended to participate in the Rachel Carson Lecture Planning Committee, which was a great experience to meet and work with faculty to plan such a meaningful STEM event for campus. And I would never have learned about the opportunity to attend a United Nations conference as an undergraduate student if I hadn’t talked with Professor Yakelis about why I
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spirituality connect with the societal or even environmental challenges they’re learning about in their classrooms. We try to keep this thinking in mind when we’re planning chapel services, and it’s also inspired things like our Reflect, Learn, Celebrate Queer Faith discussion series and a recent Bible study about decolonizing scripture. This is your seventh year as university pastor. How has the way you think about your unique role on campus changed become more nuanced, or perhaps even changed a bit, over
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Partnering with Parkland Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 3, 2018 April 3, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardPLU Marketing & CommunicationsMention Parkland, and Washingtonians tend to conjure up a slew of stereotypes and misconceptions. But to Antonio Sablan ’18 and other Pacific Lutheran University students who grew up in and around Pierce County, the area represents something much greater: home. “Parkland is resourceful. Parkland’s gritty, it’s dirty, it’s messy. But the people who live here
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May 22, 2014 A New Chapter for PLU’s Rainier Writing Workshop The new director of PLU’s Rainier Writing Workshop, Associate Professor of English Rick Barot. (Photo courtesy of Rick Barot.) Rick Barot Named New Director as Innovative MFA Program Turns 10 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Ten years ago, when Stan Rubin and Judith Kitchen founded the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University, there was only one other low-residency program like it in the Northwest
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November 4, 2014 Former Lute Soccer Star Kicks Off New Professional League Andrew Croft ’09 played soccer for a year with the Tacoma Stars. (Photo: ©Wilson Tsoi/goalWA.net) Andrew Croft ’09 is a Goalkeeper for the New Seattle Impact FC, Which Debuts in Kent Nov. 8 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 5, 2014)—Andrew Croft ’09 joined the PLU men’s soccer team in 2005 as a promising first-year goalkeeper—with an uncommonly uncanny knack for scoring goals, too
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November 5, 2014 Highly Decorated U.S. Army Veteran Shares His Journey From Service to PLU Steve Shumaker, a Political Science major at PLU who served in the U.S. Army for 12 years, tosses the coin at the Nov. 8 Military Football Game at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Now a Political Science Major, Steve Shumaker Will Speak at PLU’s Veterans Day Celebration on Nov. 11 By Shunying Wang ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Nov. 6, 2014)—Steve
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Schnackenberg Lecturer to Discuss the Removal of Indigenous Children From Their Families Posted by: Sandy Dunham / January 26, 2015 Image: Dr. Margaret Jacobs (Photo: Craig Handler/University of Nebraska-Lincoln) January 26, 2015 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 26, 2015)—After World War II, government authorities removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s
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