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WSEHA 2021 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP Posted by: alemanem / April 9, 2021 April 9, 2021 The Washington State Environmental Health Association (WSEHA) is pleased to announce the availability of the 2021 Cind M. Treser Memorial Student Scholarship.  The scholarship fund will award up to $5,000 in one or more scholarship awards this year. The Cind M. Treser Scholarship program was instituted to provide recognition and a financial incentive for undergraduate students majoring in environmental health (or

Washington Applied Sustainability Internship Posted by: nicolacs / March 22, 2023 March 22, 2023 The Washington Applied Sustainability Internship (WASI) program is a summer internship program designed to link dedicated engineering, chemistry, sustainability and environmental sciences students with business and industry in Washington. Interns research identified pollution prevention opportunities at a Host Business to analyze, recommend, and/or implement process changes to find and use safer

MediaLab Premieres documentary about food waste Posted by: Todd / November 15, 2014 November 15, 2014 Wastefulness can produce distressing results. This is especially true in the international food industry, in which more than one-third of all food produced globally each year goes to waste, resulting in economic, energy and environmental losses totaling more than $750 billion annually, according to the United Nations. Intrigued and disturbed by this statistic, Pacific Lutheran University (PLU

May 16, 2008 University Center earns LEED silver The renovated University Center has reached silver-level certification in the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.“It makes you feel good; we’re not creating more problems for the world,” said John Kaniss, construction projects manager who oversaw the renovation. Even before the project began, PLU decided the $14 million renovation would comply with LEED standards. The university is proud to

February 28, 2011 Reed Ojala-Barbour ’11 works at removing a stump as part of a habitat restoration project at Pacific Lutheran University. Restoring native species By Kari Plog ’11 Last year, senior Reed Ojala-Barbour was looking for a summer job and turned his love for environmental studies into a venture to maintain the surrounding natural habitat at Pacific Lutheran University. “First I realized PLU has an important natural habitat,” he said. “Then I realized PLU doesn’t have the grounds

October 21, 2011 PLU’s first solar panel system arrives in 2012 By: Katie Scaff ’13 PLU is that much closer to being carbon neutral by 2020 thanks to a $50,000 Solar 4R Schools grant from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation. The grant will pay for a 20-ft solar panel system, which will be installed on the Facilities Building   in March 2012.Designs are currently underway. Chrissy Cooley, sustainability manager through facilities management, worked with students to write the grant, and

April 2, 2013 First Aid/CPR/AED/BBP training on April 26 and April 27 Free and open to all PLU students, faculty, staff and administrators, PLU – Environmental, Health and Safety is pleased to sponsor the following upcoming training opportunity: Michael Newhouse, NREMT-P and SEI of First Aid Northwest will be facilitating this full day training course in two separate sessions: Friday: April 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday: April 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. A two year American Heart

MultiCare’s Leah Butters ’15 believes that great care starts with recruiting great employees Posted by: Zach Powers / May 5, 2022 May 5, 2022 By Zach Powers ’10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsWhen Leah Butters ‘15 decided to major in environmental studies she didn’t have healthcare marketing in mind. Actually, she didn’t have any specific professional sector in mind. The PLU Softball stand-out just knew she wanted to be in the business of service and care.“What I liked about the major was it was

Washington Applied Sustainability Internship Posted by: nicolacs / March 22, 2023 March 22, 2023 The Washington Applied Sustainability Internship (WASI) program is a summer internship program designed to link dedicated engineering, chemistry, sustainability and environmental sciences students with business and industry in Washington. Interns research identified pollution prevention opportunities at a Host Business to analyze, recommend, and/or implement process changes to find and use safer

Dr. Torvend on Sustainability in Monastic Communities Posted by: dupontak / May 11, 2021 May 11, 2021 By Joy Edwards '21Religion & English MajorDr. Samuel Torvend spent his sabbatical during the 2019-20 school year researching environmental consciousness and sustainability in early medieval monastic communities.Early medieval monasteries were built to last, he emphasizes. “When these monastic communities were established, they did not think they were going to be there for a couple of weeks, but