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classical tradition. Gray completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at PLU. But while he always was interested in art, Gray did not immediately know after graduation what he wanted to do. Initially, he moved to California’s Bay Area to work with youth at Bayshore Christian Ministries. But eight months later, he returned to Tacoma, where he started working as a waiter. It wasn’t until 1996, the same year that Gray married his wife, Jessica, that he began to paint. “That’s when I got serious about my life

those who are already advanced-practice nurses who want to earn the DNP degree as a post-Master’s student.” The new cohort of 15 students comes to PLU with degrees from institutions ranging from Texas Tech and James Madison University to Hawaii Pacific and, of course, PLU, Woo said. There is a well-documented shortage of primary-care providers in the United States, with Pierce and Mason counties, and others across Washington, designated as “medically underserved.” A recent brief from the Henry J

hopefully give them some helpful feedback.” Now, for her math capstone, she’s running a statistical analysis, using principal component analysis to simplify the dataset and suggest ways the U.N. agency can fine-tune their surveys and reporting. If collaborating with a U.N. agency seems unexpected for a chemistry major, for Jackie, it’s been a natural outcome from the innovative interdisciplinary approach of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON). Through IHON, Jackie originally traveled to Oxford in

choose from six internship tracks: Biomedical sciences, Dental, Health Systems and Policy, Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. Partners of the program include: Center for Health Systems Effectiveness Graduate Medical Studies Knight Cancer Institute Oregon Hearing and Research Center Oregon National Primate Research Center Portland Alcohol Research Center School of Dentistry School of Medicine School of Nursing School of Public Health Application deadline is Monday, Jan. 22, 2018  For more details

family and I have always been surrounded by it,” Olds says. “Art is a natural extension of who I am and a means to how I both process and live my life.” Olds began his career as an artist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and graduated from the University of Washington with a BFA in painting in 2005. Since then, he’s become an award-winning artist who’s participated in both regional and national exhibitions. He currently owns a small fine arts company called HOLDstudios that provides both 2D

perfect fit with PLU,” said Bruce Bjerke ’72, chair of the Board of Regents. Thomas W. Krise has been named the 13th president of PLU. He will arrive in June to assume the presidency. “I know the campus community will quickly embrace President Krise as we work together to meet the challenges and the great opportunities of the decade ahead,” Bjerke said. Thomas Krise, 50, has been Dean of the College of the Pacific, the arts and sciences college of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California

war. All medical supplies must be flown in. This is the end of the world. It’s a place Ingrid Ford ’97 knows well. A graduate of PLU’s School of Nursing, she visited the site periodically while working for MSF. She saw the people who traveled hundreds of miles, often on foot, to be seen by the doctors and nurses at this remote outpost. This influx of people underscores why Ford spent six years with MSF in Africa and France: she believes access to health care is a basic human right. “I don’t care

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believe the world’s current state of affairs is simply the consequence of some natural order. And after celebrating those who share in the excitement and optimism reflected in the new push for global health and development progress, he added a precautionary: “We had better know where we are going.” Tom Paulson ’80 has been a science and medical reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer since 1987. Tom, a Seattle native and PLU graduate (B.S. chemistry), covers the physical sciences, biomedical

May 2, 2008 Sustainability Fellows to tackle bikes, recycling Juniors Lauren Buchholz and Eric Pfaff were named the 2008-09 Sustainability Fellows last week. Awarded annually by the Sustainability Committee, the fellowships give students an opportunity to further the campus sustainability effort by researching existing practices and the use of resources on PLU and at other college and university campuses. Buchholz will work with Environmental Services to determine strategies to perpetuate the