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an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. The PLU chapter is a student-run organization that strives to promote global health equality and connects students with opportunities to travel internationally to provide assistance through clinics and public health activities. The PLU chapter also functions as a support and resource network for pre-med students and connects students with alumni

February 1, 2012 Antarctic sunset. Photo taken by Samantha Dillon. Resource 2012 Wang Symposium: Our Thirsty Planet Wang Symposium: Activist fights to preserve the precious resource of water By Barbara Clements Maude Barlow didn’t start out interested in water. Nothing of the sort, she recalled recently from her home in Ottawa, Canada.  In the mid-80s, Barlow was working in the women’s movement and focusing  on laws that would eventually be known as the as NAFTA. While looking over various

February 10, 2012 “An Antarctic Sunset” taken by PLU student Samantha Dillion in 2006 during J-Term study away in Antarctica. Wang Symposium 2012: Water warrior fights to save our most precious resource By Barbara Clements Maude Barlow didn’t start out interested in water. Nothing of the sort, she recalled recently from her home in Ottawa, Canada.  In the mid-80s, Barlow was working in the women’s movement and focusing  on laws that would eventually be known as the NAFTA trade agreement. While

homelessness around the United States, as well as a Q&A with the film’s producer, Thomas Morgan. The film will begin at 4:30 p.m. in The Cave. Wednesday, Nov. 19 There are two Hunger & Homelessness Awareness events on Nov. 19: From 4-6 p.m., students can participate in Empty Bowls in the University Center. Then, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., students can attend the Working for Change Panel in Room 133 of the Anderson University Center. Empty Bowls is an international movement to combat hunger. During the event

movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. The PLU chapter is a student-run organization that strives to promote global health equality and connects students with opportunities to travel internationally to provide assistance through clinics and public health activities. The PLU chapter also functions as a support and resource network for pre-med students and connects students with alumni doctors and medical

uses of surveillance related to safety.  How do you encourage and equip your students to ask —  or answer — tough questions about surveillance or other human rights issues? I think a big part of it is encouraging them to use an interdisciplinary approach to connect what they’re learning in class with their own experiences, and to what they can learn from the lived experiences of people around them. For example, in this post-Roe surveillance area, we can’t think of the anti-abortion movement without

awareness. “I didn’t really know what I was getting into!” Jore says. “I think the biggest challenge was that we were learning a lot of different techniques in class while we were working with Heritage, so we had a lot of new things to learn at the same time we were doing the project.” The project required Dixon and Jore to use a wide variety of research and analysis methods taught in the MSMA program. The students were prepared, and their individual strengths proved to be an ideal match for their

to ask questions, and to be charitable, and to try to understand what people are saying, more than putting out what I think,” she explains. “I use Twitter to explore what other people think and to try out ideas.” Dr. Shanks Kaurin brings her professorial techniques online with her. “It’s a lot like what I do with my classes when I walk in and say, ‘Here’s what I was thinking about today. What do you all think about this?’” Although opening up philosophical conversations to the internet at large

the conference with music of healing and renewal, as the ensemble performs Lauridsen’s Lux aeterna in the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center at Gonzaga University. Choral musicians may be familiar with the central movement of this music, “O nata lux.” PLU audiences will remember it as the title and a featured work in our 2019 holiday concert, and performed again in 2021 by Chorale. PLU Department of Music Chair and Chorale Conductor Dr. Brian Galante said, “Having two choirs from the same

world-renowned philosopher Peter Singer, who is credited with launching the animal rights movement 30 years ago with his book “Animal Liberation.” He challenged students to think about what they eat, how their food was raised and how the animal was treated before it was killed for food. He also challenged ideas on giving money to panhandlers, or not. “I’ve talked with panhandlers before and they’ve told me that just giving them money doesn’t do much,” Singer said. “They like people to notice them