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plant biology at PLU Read Next Opening Doors: PLU Partnership with PNWU creates new opportunities for PLU pre-health sciences graduates LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 The Passing of Bryan Dorner June 4, 2024 Student athlete Vinny D’Onofrio ’24 excelled in biology and chemistry at PLU June 4, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to

at a street market than out of a catalogue, where prices were jacked up by 300 percent. Her staff were “voracious” learners, and quickly trained up. But she often found that doctors and nurses went right from the American equivalent of high school, straight into a specialty for the next six years. There was very little general medical or science training. There were also the cultural differences. Doctors were expected to take one look at a patient, and know instantly what was wrong. To simply say

decades. The 1980s saw the emergence of study away as an important PLU facet. The Rieke Science Center was completed, faculty governance grew stronger and recruitment of new students became increasingly focused. Academic programs grew stronger and new programs were undertaken. At the end of the decade, the university celebrated its centennial, with a year long celebration that included the world premiere of my colleague Gregory Youtz’s opera on Northwest Native American history and simultaneous

holiday, he took the first step and traveled to Melbourne, Australia. He inquired about going to school there and they suggested he check out a therapy program in Auckland, New Zealand. “So I said ‘Alright, New Zealand here I come,'” Abbas said. It was a giant leap for him, after all he hadn’t been in college for nearly 25 years and that was for a bachelor of science in information systems, his profession in Saudi Arabia. “It’s quite a challenge,” Abbas said. “It’s all here, but it’s actually walking

doesn’t think so. “I knew from the moment I got my book, PLU was invested in my education.” — To view a conversation between Bill Moyers and Urrea that aired on PBS, click here. Read Previous Career Connections Opportunity Board brings employers and job-seekers together Read Next Kelvin Adams – Bachelor of Science in physics, minor in mathematics COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private

I’ll get a wider sense of what the election means on a broader scale,” said political science and global studies double major JuliAnne Rose ’13. “It’s an election that everyone has a lot of stake in. Everybody has a lot of opinions and I have a lot of my own opinions, and so it’s going to up my anticipation level of what the results are going to be. It will kind of feel like I’m part of the history more than if I were to just cast my vote.” Read Previous The connection between the Sun and the

their families. –Maria Chávez By Maria Chávez PLU Associate Professor of Political Science When she was 11, “Ana Sofia” came to the United States on a tourist visa with her parents and sister. Now 18 and a high-school senior in Seattle, she learned of her status as an undocumented immigrant only two years ago—and has found the new knowledge unsettling. “It’s just the feeling of feeling unwanted,” she said. “Even though you have not done anything bad—because I don’t feel I’ve ever done anything bad

conducting research. Now, he’s a senior paleontologist at the Department of the Interior. Foss serves as a policy adviser and resource director in Washington, D.C., 30 years after his dream began. “Working on the bureaucratic side we call ourselves ‘paleocrats’ because we’re actually interpreting the science for government,” Foss said. “Field research was what I always wanted to do, but a big part of what I do now is coordinate everything that goes on in the field.” Foss earned his research and resource

I was trying to get the campaign into other schools it was really easy to do it through my friends and have access to all kinds of schools across the state,” she said. And there’s no slowing down for Anderson, who also serves on Resident Hall Council in Harstad — where she lives — in addition to serving as a senator in student government. “But don’t worry,” she joked. “I’m getting eight hours of sleep a night.” Unsurprisingly, Anderson is a political science major. She hopes to run for political

the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and served as dean of community education at Federal City College in Washington D.C. His education included a bachelor’s of science degree from Concordia College in River Forest, Illinois and a Doctor of Education from the University of Kansas. He also spent four years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. After PLU, Dr. Wiegman served as the Washington State Commissioner of Employment Security. A lasting highlight of his service with the state was his key role in