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Marine/environmental chemistry interest? Summer REU in Aquatic Chemical Ecology at Georgia Tech Posted by: yakelina / January 14, 2016 January 14, 2016 From Frank Stuart, Co-Director at Georgia Tech: We will be hosting 10 undergraduate researchers this summer at Georgia Tech in our REU program focused in Aquatic Chemical Ecology. We would like to ask for your help in publicizing this program to undergraduates, at Georgia Tech and elsewhere. Our program website is http://www.biology.gatech.edu
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The visiting writer series events are intended for members of the audience to speak with visiting authors about their writing, their lives, and the subjects of their books.
Visiting Writer Series 2023-2024The Visiting Writer Series at PLU is sponsored by the English Department, with support from the Office of the Provost. Bella Bravo and Miranda Morgan Thursday, April 11, 2024, 7PM, Regency Room – AUC 203AboutJen Soriano Jen Soriano Thursday, November 2, 7PM Scandinavian Cultural Center, AUCAboutCascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry A Celebration with the Editors: Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, Derek Sheffield
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 9, 2016)- Mosquitoes are pests to some, but for Rebekah Blakney ’12 they carry a wealth of information that can unlock solutions to global health issues. Now with the outbreak of the Zika virus, that’s as important as ever. Blakney isn’t at…
. Previously, she focused on hospital-acquired infections. West Nile research at Emory University Kitron LabLearn more about the lab where Blakney's work takes place.“It was a big transition but I’ve really enjoyed it so far,” she said of the career shift. “This was a great opportunity to combine epidemiology with environmental ecology.” Her day-to-day work includes studying birds and various species of mosquitoes, seeking to understand what keeps West Nile prevalent in Atlanta. The professors who run her
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Two of PLU’s most important Gateway programs — Telemark and Oslo — connect PLU to its roots while also teaching students about contemporary Norway.
Telemark Gateway, says both programs look beyond Scandinavian heritage and focus on the “needed element” of studying contemporary Norway. “Our courses (in Scandinavian-area studies) and study away both strive to move students from an interest in heritage to an interest in how Norway approaches disciplines like business, alpine ecology and literature from their perspective,” she said. Norway NostalgiaRead what Sonja Ruud '12 has to say about her journey abroad in Norway. Students studying in Telemark
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Biochemical Markers Summer Fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Posted by: nicolacs / December 11, 2018 December 11, 2018 A fellowship opportunity is available in the Division of Laboratory Sciences (DLS) within the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. DLS provides laboratory support that improves the detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of environmental, tobacco
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Last year Martha Spieker ’16 was ASPLU president, now she works at Congress.
health summits (official gatherings of Ministers of Health), including CARICOM, PAHO and African Union. He has served as an expert advisor to many Canadian provincial and U.S. state regulatory agencies, Health Canada, Canadian Public Health Agency, U.S. Center for Disease Control, the U.S. Veterans Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human services. He has 17 years experience as a licensed practicing neonatologist in Canada and the U.S. Dr. Graven has been faculty at the University
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More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.
, Jackie Stenberg ’19 stood on the hilltop grounds of a picturesque, centuries-old stone church, taking in a much slower side of Norway. Growing up, Stenberg says Glacier National Park in Montana was her backyard. So, it was fitting that she decided to study alpine ecology in the rural part of a country with ties to her family history. “It’s cool getting the heritage and the nature,” Stenberg said. Stenberg and Kristi Floyd ’19 couldn’t stop gushing about the sweeping views of rolling hills and the
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The PLU School of Nursing offers a Post Graduate Nurse Practitioner Certificate for two advanced practice specialty areas, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse
Education The American Psychiatric Nurses Association The Family Nurse Practitioner specialty focuses on client-centered clinical practice, and prepares nurses to respond to the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s health care consumers, to manage direct care based on advanced assessment and diagnostic reasoning, to incorporate health promotion and disease prevention interventions into health care delivery, and to recognize their potential for professional growth, responsibility, and autonomy. Successful
Graduate ProgramsPacific Lutheran University 12180 Park Avenue South Tacoma, WA 98447-0003 -
After a rare heart condition cut her soccer career short, Shelby Daly ’13 found her calling as an athletic trainer.
next day, doctors diagnosed her with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD), a rare type of cardiomyopathy that occurs if the muscle tissue in the heart’s right ventricle dies and is replaced with scar tissue, according to the American Heart Association. Doctors implanted a cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in her chest the same day. ARVD is believed to be a genetically inherited disease, and is one of the most common causes of sudden cardiac arrest among young athletes. Daly said her
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Fisheries and Marine Biology, Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo, 1996 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Marine Ecology Disease Ecology Biogeography Selected Presentations 10th International Larval Biology Symposium, Determining distribution and size of larval Pacific geoduck clams (Panopea generosa) in Puget Sound (Washington, USA) using a novel tracking approach, Berkeley, CA (2012) National Shellfisheries Association Annual Meeting, Novel tracking technique indicates importance of rare events driving larval
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