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MediaLab Film Examines “Compassion Fatigue” Posted by: Todd / February 20, 2012 February 20, 2012 People who are repeatedly exposed to tragedy and trauma, such as health care workers, fire fighters and law enforcement officers, may be susceptible to a condition known as “compassion fatigue, “according to a new documentary produced by PLU’s MediaLab. “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion,” makes its South Sound premiere Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, at 7 p.m. in the Mary Baker Russell Music Center’s
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variation suites and hymn preludes on both early American hymn-tunes and Lutheran chorale melodies. Dahl is working on three new commissions for organ music intended for Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnwood, Wash., All Hallows Parish, Episcopal in South River, Mass., and for the 2016 National Convention of the American Guild of Organists. On January 25, 2014, Seattle and Tacoma Chapters of the American Guild of Organists will meet at Calvary Lutheran Church, Federal Way, Wash., for a program featuring
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October 13, 2008 “Tyranny of Oil” author to appear at PLU A nationally-known expert and critic of Big Oil will speak at PLU on Saturday, October 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Xavier Hall, Nordquist Lecture Hall, off Park Avenue South. The address is free and open to the public. Antonia Juhasz has exposed an industry that thrives on secrecy and described how it hides its business dealings from policy makers, legislators, and most of all, from consumers to get what it wants through money, influence and
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of a Peace Corps volunteer group chat that had exploded overnight. She learned that an email had gone out from the Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington D.C. that all volunteers were being evacuated. “We had all been so naive and ignorant to what COVID even was, that I think we felt a little blindsided by that being the reason we were being taken out,” Chell said. Chell made it back home to South Dakota safely. But she found it difficult to hunker down as many were doing to ride out the first
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.” (By Theodore Charles ’12) Our excursion to Murchison Falls began on Friday morning at about 9 am. We all crammed into three Red Chili sic Safari vans and rocketed northward. We made two stops, one for money and a type of flatbread called chapatti and the other for lunch in the town of Masindi, about forty-five minutes south of the park gate. Our driver, Hasan, in my book was the most efficient driver of them all and even navigated paved gravel mounds with high-speed ease. Even though navigating by
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Meyer – English teaching assistant in South Africa Meyer will be working with university students on conversational English, reading and writing in South Africa. “The position was especially appealing to me because I have an endorsement in teaching English Language Learners (ELL),” she said. “Most of my experience is with elementary school students, but I am excited to tutor and also learn from the adults I will be working with at the university.” Originally from Spokane, Wash, she graduated last
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that only legally abolished slavery in 1981. Having two different experiences in Mauritania to draw from, Wiley reflects on her deepened awareness of her positionality, identity, and capacity for learning. Dr. Ami Shah’s research in Nigeria and India consists of examining the effects of neoliberal urban development policies on livelihoods, identities and state-society relations for the urban poor. As a South Asian woman researching in India, she speaks to her experience of “double strangerhood” or
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organization works with teenagers in the Parkland and South Sound region of Washington State. They focus on teaching, supporting and appreciating the arts so they may make a beautiful Parkland. Current programming includes an annual juried exhibition for artists aged 11-18 hosted by Pacific Lutheran University and an annual, month-long summer camp taught by local artists. Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/pyartshow Read Previous Save the date: Documentary ‘Namibia Nine’ to premiere in February Read Next
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January 12, 2011 Mike Vermuelen always liked rocks. Now he gets to study them up close in Antarctica. By Barbara Clements In a lab littered with Hostess snack bars and French fry wrappers, geosciences student Mike Vermeulen ’12, turns to his computer and pops up a map of Antarctica. He then points to a grid in the upper part of the frozen continent. Mike Vermeulen has always been fascinated by rocks and dinosaurs. This last winter, he travelled south to Antarctica to study deglaciation of rocks
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of the Eastvold Auditorium. Construction should be complete in 2013. It will be a place of learning, a new home for amazing theater, a religious center and a treasure for the whole south sound community, Anderson said. This has been a dream in-the-making for a long time, said Bruce Bjerke ’72, chair of the Board of Regents. “It just took all of these stories coming together to make this possible,” he said. Read Previous Loren and MaryAnn Anderson University Center dedicated Read Next Farewell
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