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with a mission to fund patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research that provides patients, their caregivers and clinicians with the evidence-based information they need to make better informed health and healthcare decisions. Read Previous PLU alumna Shelby Hatton ’17 discusses her PNWU medical school experience (thus far!) Read Next Isaiah Banken ’21 earns Torrison Scholarship because of his dedication to medicine and faith LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships

Building in downtown Tacoma. His last day is Wednesday, Jan. 9. “It’s another challenge,” Villahermosa said of his new position. “I’m excited to bring a lot of what I learned here – the skills I learned, the knowledge and especially the culture – to my new job. “I’ll definitely miss it here, I’ll miss the people.” A reception to bid farewell to Villahermosa and welcome Berger is slated for Jan. 9 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Berger has 21 years of law enforcement experience

, representative from PROSA (Promotores de Salud en Defensa de la Vida del Pueblo), providing healthcare in remote areas of Oaxaca, Mexico Scott Jackson, vice president of the external relations team at the international nonprofit PATH Carol Koller, with 27 years of fund raising and development leadership experience, she is presently with Medical Teams International Lindsay Leeder, family nurse practitioner, Krista Colleague and former Jesuit Volunteer Corps member Connie McCloud, who has worked for the

, she’s getting hands-on clinical experience working with real patients one-on-one. “It’s difficult when you have a breakthrough with a patient and then they go back the next day,” she said. “It’s hard to believe in the process and that it’s normal.” After graduating, Montgomery would like to work with sexual abuse survivors, specifically with child prostitutes. More research needs to be done to help survivors move past anger to forgiveness, and to develop strategies for assisting spouses of sexual

impact,” Comstock said. “If people come and have a really positive experience, then it’s going to be something they want to do.” Comstock concedes that no amount of planned activities, amazing music groups or inspired speakers will make the event a success. It’s all about the people who choose to participate. “The people are what is going to make the event really entertaining,” Comstock said. “If the right people aren’t there … the purpose of the event is lost.” Fifty-nine teams are registered to

resolutions to ASPLU. As a member of PLU’s student chapter of SPJ, Coats helped it reach regional fame as student chapter of the region in 2006 and national fame as student chapter of the nation in 2007. She continues to serve as a post-grad member of the society. “I am honored and humbled to have won such a prestigious award,” Coats said. “I had such an amazing college journalism experience thanks to my PLU professors, and this award is proof of how good they are in bringing out the best in their

experience,” he said. For each of them, it was a great way for their students to see them outside of the lecture halls, Halvorson said. “Students tend to think you don’t have a life away from campus,” Anderson said. “For me it’s a good way to demonstrate I’m not the scary guy they think I am, just because I teach statistics,” Grahe said. The energy from the crowd and the kind comments from students afterward certainly made it clear they accomplished that, Halvorson said. He’s a professor by day and

through,” she said. Going to college is a life-changing experience and understanding a new stage in life is no easy task, Dehne said. Finding the people and places to make life’s stages connect and grow is part of EXPLORE!. “I think more and more, PLU is able to show that is a core part of the university,” she said. Read Previous Former ASPLU VP tagged as Rising Star Read Next Present for historical moment COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have

August 24, 2010 Endowment for scholarships: a direct investment in students Agnes Berge Smith graduated from Pacific Lutheran College in 1932 with a vision. During the spring of that year, she traveled with the Choir of the West to sing at the Chicago World’s Fair. The trip was the premier occasion of what she called many “liberating experiences” that she had while studying music here. Smith never forgot the powerful influence that the PLC experience had for her and she was determined to ensure

Standard,” came out of it – U. S. armed services that wished to discharge someone under “don’t ask, don’t tell” had to first prove that his or her conduct hurt morale and unit cohesion. In the September 2010 ruling, Judge Leighton found that it did not. In the court’s finding of fact, he ruled “no credible evidence was presented to this court which indicated that Major Witt’s sexual orientation ever had a negative effect on the unit morale, order, discipline, or cohesion.” Witt, in her experience