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support. “PLU has been so phenomenal through so much—beginnings, endings and hardships in between,” Hunt said. Health, Hardships and Healing Hardships don’t come much harder: In the summer of 2009, Hunt was diagnosed with cancer. “It was a very, very stressful semester,” Hunt said (in addition to classes, a job and bills, her namesake aunt was losing her own battle with cancer). “I was having a hard time. I thought I had an ulcer.” Hunt visited a local urgent-care clinic, which performed nine hours

example of how we’re bringing alumni and students together. The gathering drew both undergraduate and graduate students with declared majors that included accounting, finance, marketing, nursing, fine arts and more. They met for a discussion and lunch with 14 PLU alumni who work for the nation’s fifth-largest airline — everyone from recent graduates to Alaska CEO Brad Tilden ‘83. Take our Alumni SurveyWe care about your success after you leave PLU. Let us know how you used your degree and what you’re

anthropologist and physician, he has worked on social hierarchies, health inequities, and the ways in which such asymmetries are naturalized, normalized, and resisted in the context of transnational im/migration, agro-food systems, and health care.  He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award. In addition to scholarly publications, he has written for popular media such as The Huffington Post and Salon.com  and

studying to find out how easy or difficult it might be to follow your dietary requirements? If you take prescription medication, what is your plan for continuing with your medication? Can you bring enough for the entire program? Can you get access while abroad? If so, what is the cost? What could your self-care practices look like during your program? How might this be different from what you do at home? PLU recommends you create a self-care plan for your study away experience. This may include mental

people served. In the case of hotel bills, the folio account from the hotel is necessary. For business entertainment, you must indicate on the form the names and affiliation of those entertained, the business purpose of the entertainment, and the nature of the discussion that took place.Air Transportation1.  Air transportation may be reserved through a travel agent or via the internet. Care should be taken to ensure that the best pricing for travel arrangements is realized regardless of the method

the scenes than at center stage. And he spent the bulk of his professional life doing good work that propped up the people around him. “I love being the numbers geek,” he said, reminiscing about his 24-year career in banking before coming to PLU four years ago. “I’ve spent most of my career making the person in front of me look good. And I’m OK with that.” Corporate leaders weren’t complaining, either, he joked. But despite focusing on education, nonprofits and health care organizations at the end

UCLA or anywhere in the world. But it is our story — a PLU story. Maybe someone in your circle has such a story. Ask them. And if they do, ask them to tell it. Stories such as ours, and hopefully such as yours, are important — memories are sometimes all we have left of each other. One of my favorite memories is of the last time the four of us visited Doug in his room at a memory care facility. Hanging on the wall were pictures of his children, his medical degree, and a photograph of the five of us