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experience in international health care that got her hired. MSF quickly put that experience to the test. Ford first served a year in western Kenya, working in projects providing treatment for tuberculosis and for HIV/AIDS using anti-retroviral drugs. There, she witnessed how the virus has deteriorated the African family structure. Traditionally, extended families live together. But with an HIV/AIDS infection rate of 40 percent, too many children are left orphaned. Grandparents, aunts and uncles are

, electronic and electromechanical technicians, law enforcement and security technology professionals, cybersecurity professionals, data scientists as well as those interested in STEM-related policy issues such as climate change, emerging technologies, global health, and the supply chain among others at home and abroad! During our virtual career fair, you will have the opportunity to engage with Foreign Service and Civil Service professionals across a broad range of STEM fields.  Learn how your STEM

math teacher, but he soon discovered he had a passion for technology and business. He’s followed that passion ever since. His career in information and technology has spanned three decades and included chapters at consultancies, a start-up, and large corporations like Microsoft and Weyerhaeuser. He is now the director of information technology at the Port of Tacoma. Read our Q&A with Mark Miller ’88. Lute Powered: AmazonLute Powered: MultiCare Health SystemLute Powered: City of Tacoma Read Previous

Renewable Energy Scholarship Posted by: nicolacs / October 4, 2021 October 4, 2021 The Renewable Energy Scholarship Foundation is now soliciting applications for the scholarships to be given in 2022. This year we expect to give at least seven $2000 scholarships, more if fundraising permits. All aspects of renewable energy, including social sciences and humanities as well as sustainability and grid issues, are fair game. The deadline for applications is Feb 15, 2022, and details can be found on

technologies are one of the key things recruiters look for when hiring candidates into the scientific research field.” What’s next in science education upgrades?The new A&P lab is the first in a series of $10.9 million in planned upgrades to spaces and technology designed to enhance science and health sciences student education at PLU.  Phases two and three of the upgrades will include the conversion of the Leraas Lecture Hall into three modular classrooms, the addition of a new exam room in the Nursing

.  Historically, close to 98% of our students successfully complete internships and close to 90% of those land regular jobs within 3 months of completing the internship.  Average annualized internship compensation for materials tracks so far this year is over $60,000. Send Questions: lynde@uoregon.edu   Read Previous Scholarships for Graduate Studies at the Institute for Shock Physics Read Next Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) LATEST POSTS Dept of Energy Computational Science Graduate

university is uniquely situated to bring perspective—depth, breadth, and dimension—to a present-day crisis, whatever that crisis might be. COVID 19 has upended almost every aspect of human life and presented all of us with a range of challenges that were unimaginable a year ago. These include challenges to our health and wellbeing, our livelihoods, education, housing, global supply chains, our complacency around equity and access, to name a few. At PLU we have the capacity to tap colleagues that are not

Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students in rural and underserved communities to administer primary care to those in need.The money comes in the form of an Advanced Education Nursing Traineeship (AENT) grant for the 2016-17 academic year, awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). It will cover tuition and living stipends for students in the FNP program. Those students already have clinical experiences in a variety of clinics in the

distributed and taken. Because of this, we are hopefully planning to be back working together on campus next year. We hope that good news about declining infection rates continues in the U.S. and quickly spreads throughout the world. We hope for an end to the global pandemic, and we hope that communities across the world will use that chance to rebuild, restore, and rejuvenate with a commitment to everyone’s health.  Those who created this issue of Prism also deserve thanks.  All stories were written by

, native tribes and environmentalists opposed the measure.   Turning back to her first passion, social justice and the plight of women, Barlow said she discovered during her research that access to clean water can’t be separated from human rights issues and, more specifically, the issue of women’s rights.  One issue, she said, can’t be solved without addressing the other.“If a woman has to walk for miles to clean water, or any water, it affects the health of her family and their general welfare,” she