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Olympic Village and the High Performance Center. The food is excellent. In the village, they basically have food from every nation. It is HUGE cafeteria style. So one meal, we will eat next to Michael Phelps, and the other day, Roger Federer (tennis) will walk in. The entire world passes through, and the food is diverse, fresh and quite good. Read Previous An invaluable asset Read Next Profs, students talk about going green COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you

. There were a lot of little things about her that really hinted at this love for research that she has continued on with.” After a bit of soul-searching, McFadden decided to pursue a career in nursing instead of psychology, and she enrolled at John Hopkins University where she earned a master’s degree in 2012. She was hired by Seattle Children’s Hospital soon after, followed by a stint at the University of Washington’s Pediatric Care Center. It was there that a frustrating discussion with a young

your internship? It is a full-time job. I work about 40 hours a week. It is a heavy workload, but it is also fun, so it doesn’t feel like work. We are making a simulation for small satellites. I work remotely for the Langley Research Center in Virginia, and my mentor there has really helped me with making connections while working virtually. The three-hour difference in time zones is a bit of a challenge, but it is manageable. One of my biggest takeaways from working with NASA is the importance of

limonene are almost identical, except for the fact that their building blocks connect to each other in slightly different ways. The results are molecules that are structurally similar, but their scent is radically different: Pinene and limonene smell like pine and citrus. “Nature is using the same building blocks, but in slightly different configurations,” he said. This type of instruction doesn’t just happen in the chemistry classrooms of Rieke Science Center. It is also happening in PLU’s dining

through your internship? It is a full-time job. I work about 40 hours a week. It is a heavy workload, but it is also fun, so it doesn’t feel like work. We are making a simulation for small satellites. I work remotely for the Langley Research Center in Virginia, and my mentor there has really helped me with making connections while working virtually. The three-hour difference in time zones is a bit of a challenge, but it is manageable. One of my biggest takeaways from working with NASA is the

things I love to see,” he said “This needs to continue and I want to make it happen.” In the future, Markuson said, the club will hopefully have the opportunity for more public exposure. He plans to look into public appearances, or rides, and there has even been talk of including club members in Dance Ensemble 2011. Markuson said, however, this will depend on the progress of group members. The club meets either in the UC or the Columbia Center Wednesdays at 7 p.m., and Markuson encourages anyone who

substance. Yakelis gives the students a rundown on how to order the machine to drop the sample into the depths of the NMR, and then await test results on how protons are oriented in the unknown liquid. The machine works by an electronic arm plucking out a sample from a rotating tray and slowly lowering it into a tube, which then goes down on a column of air into the machine. There, a powerful magnet that is 200,000 times as strong as the Earth’s magnetic field spins the compound at super-fast speeds. As

,” he said. Foege became executive director of The Carter Center in 1986 and continues to serve the organization as a senior fellow. He has served on the PLU Board of Regents and received an honorary doctorate from PLU in 2000, when he was the university’s Commencement speaker. He helped shape the global-health work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and remains a champion of a wide array of issues, including child survival and development, injury prevention and preventative medicine. In his

trade agreements at the time, Barlow noticed that water was listed as a tradable commodity. Odd, she thought at the time. And unfair. “I thought (water) should be free for all, and considered a resource,” she mused before she spoke this spring at the Wang Center Symposium, which focused on water – both its growing scarcity and value, as well as its impact on socioeconomic trends. “I guess since I wasn’t a lawyer or a scientists, I saw these issues with fresh eyes,” said Barlow, who has a degree in

two years – logging over 400 hours – before deciding to branch off in a new direction and enlisting the help of fellow science geeks Mark Lee ’13, an applied physics major, and triple-threat Mimi Granlund ’13, an arts, physics and math major. The threesome needed to build their own system, which consisted of a cylinder capped with a sandpaper disc to act as a “tongue.” The cylinder would plunge into water and then be lifted out through a pulley system. This would be photographed by a high-speed