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  • Medical Care | 医疗保健On-Campus | 校园內The PLU Health Center offers primary health care to PLU students (regardless of insurance), including illness and injury care and physicals. Services include filling prescriptions, management of acute illnesses and injuries like colds and muscle injuries, evaluating and managing chronic illnesses like asthma, immunizations, gender-specific health care, physical examinations, sexual health services and emergency contraception, and care for emotional and mental

  • , Matt moved to Boulder, CO, to work at VictorOps Inc., an incident management software company. He now works at Splunk, a machine data and IT-services company, as a regional sales manager. He is excited to live and work in Boulder, a place where he can grow professionally and pursue his love for running and the outdoors. Macfarlane credits his History degree with his ability to do detailed research and says that it helped him land a job in the fast-paced software industry, where few know that

  • . Much is at stake here and a general idea of what the goals are is no longer sufficient. Worse, a lack of definition opens the door to co-option and potential abuse. Bill Foege, a key player in this story and one of the world’s pioneering leaders in global health, earlier this year gave a talk at the University of Washington on global health. He said many things worth quoting, but two statements stood out for me. “Destiny is just an excuse for bad management,” Foege said in deploring those who

  • Services that will help me gain knowledge in international development and management. Within the next few years I plan to continue education by attending graduate school aboard to study International Relations or Development Economics. I would ultimately like to have a career working on Africa’s economic development policies. Brian Higginbotham, Bachelor of Arts in history with a minor in political science Brain Higginbotham ’13 is from Woodinville, Wash. Why PLU? I chose to come to PLU because it

  • applied to, save for one,” Thames said. “I was initially thinking New York University’s Magazine Writing program, but then USC came along and offered to pay for school as well as provide living wages.” Despite her current success, Thames’ journey toward graduate school has been replete with challenges. With three demanding jobs and a rigorous course load, Thames had to learn strategies for time management and self-care. Although Netflix served as a favorite reprieve, it was the support of friends that

  • advocate for them, and I will continue to do this as long as I have some breath in me,” she said. Nuunyango’s political activism dates back to her youth in Namibia, and was continued at Green River; she also maintains a charity to support schoolchildren’s expenses in her home village. A message to the PLU community: To current and future students, Nuunyango advised, “It’s all about time management.” Graduating magna cum laude while raising two kids suggests she knows what she’s talking about. “Make use

  • junior faculty members, forged strong relationships with community partners, and chaired the department for several years. She was also a highly engaged faculty leader throughout her years at PLU, chairing the Educational Policy Committee and sitting on the Summer Academy Task Force, Long Range Planning Committee, Admission and Retention of Students Committee, and Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee. “She was a gifted, creative, innovative, insightful, and dedicated instructor,” says

  • MulderWho: Dr. Mark Mulder, Dean of the School of Business, PLU Bio: Dr. Mulder is currently Dean and has taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs (Master of Business Administration – MBA and Master of Science in Marketing Analytics – MSMA) in the PLU School of Business. His coursework includes marketing strategy, consumer behavior, market research, nonprofit marketing/management, sustainability, and social impact. Professor Mulder regularly leads global courses and projects, and in 2013

  • years at the helm of Outdoor Rec, the program continued to grow and evolve. During the ’97-98 school year, OR expanded to weeklong trips, one to Montana for skiing and another to Oregon’s Smith Rock for climbing. Wade also began running a basic staff training that discussed risk management in the outdoors, and he held periodic wilderness medicine mini-seminars that addressed what incidents could arise outdoors and how to handle them. “For a lot of us, it was our first foray into real leadership

  • using a combination of mutagenesis and chemical tools of CCRs to visualize and identify O-GlcNAcylated sites on caspase-6, one of the apoptotic caspase enzymes with an interesting lack of activity in some cancers, to eventually discern a possible relationship between O-GlcNAcylation and caspase-6 enzymatic activity. 3:30-3:40 - Break3:40 pm - Synthesizing Gold Nanoparticles to Study the Kinetics of Electrochemical Reactions Trang Le, Capstone Senior Seminar Carbon electrodes are commonly used in