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Global health: Why does it matter? If public health was a fashion show, global health would be the new black. It’s hot. But what is global health, exactly? And why does it matter? Mark Twain once complained that everybody talks about the weather but nobody…
defensible answers here. The vicious circular explanation is that hardly anybody cared about these diseases because hardly anybody – in the industrialized world anyway – cared about these diseases. They afflicted the billions of invisible poor in Africa, Asia and the rest of the developing world. What finally made the health of the developing world appear on our radar screen was not some new political movement or mass enlightenment. What happened, very simply, is that some powerful, high-profile people
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The Office of the Provost works in close collaboration with the Wild Hope Center for Vocation to facilitate New Faculty Orientation, and to provide various New Faculty Development opportunities
Campus Map New Faculty Orientation - Day 1 Wednesday, August 21, 2024 | 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. The first day of New Faculty Orientation is held in Hauge Administration Building, room 101 on the main level. Hauge is just west of Park Avenue on 121st Street South. Nearby parking lots include Anderson University Center lot, and Library lot. On orientation days it is fine to park in university lots without a parking decal. 8:30 | Registration & Breakfast Register with Carol Bautista, and A. Bryant
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T-shirts make a splash in Brazil It’s a simple T-shirt, black cotton with silk-screened words. The white “Sojourner” across the chest identifies the PLU students as temporary guests in another country. The phrase “global citizen,” screened in Portuguese, English and Spanish on the back, represents…
January 18, 2008 T-shirts make a splash in Brazil It’s a simple T-shirt, black cotton with silk-screened words. The white “Sojourner” across the chest identifies the PLU students as temporary guests in another country. The phrase “global citizen,” screened in Portuguese, English and Spanish on the back, represents the countries the students are visiting – Brazil and Argentina. The students are investigating the impact of globalization on South America. They are one of 27 groups currently
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TACOMA, WASH. (July 18, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Nursing earned $350,000 to further its long history of placing Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students in rural and underserved communities to administer primary care to those in need. The money comes in the form of…
South Puget Sound, from Centralia to south King County and west to Aberdeen. Funding awarded in 2012 from the St. Louis-based Cornelsen Family Charitable Foundation funded a mobile health van that provides outreach to the elderly and underserved. FNP students use the health van to conduct depression screenings at senior centers, skin cancer screenings, blood glucose screenings with diabetes education, and falls assessment and prevention education. The AENT grant will provide additional resources to
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TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 2, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University students and staff gathered outside Leraas Hall in the Rieke Science Center on Oct. 2. to write and sign sympathy cards for the communities of North Seattle College and Umpqua Community College. Five students of North Seattle College…
vehicle and a bus in Seattle; 50 people were sent to area hospitals. Nine people, including several first-year students and a teacher, were killed by a gunman at Umpqua Community College on Oct. 1. Seven other people were wounded in the attack in Roseburg, about 180 miles south of Portland. Read Previous PLU Ranked a Top 10 “Value Added” College Read Next Trans-Rights Scholar/Activist Dean Spade Speaks at PLU Nov. 3 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you
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News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.
Public Radio Sustainability Fundamental to KPLU Sale Many of the emails I’ve received about this subject reveal listeners’ confusion and misinformation, and I can tell that many people’s passions are very strong and may overwhelm their reason. For example: people complain about: losing a South Sound resource (KPLU has been based in… December 1, 2015 AdministrationNews
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2015 Convocation 2015 CONVOCATION President’s Remarks Good morning! I’m delighted to welcome you all to the 2015 University Convocation! Whether you are a part of the entering class of 2019, a student joining us with some college experience already behind you, or an exchange student…
naturally seek out people whose life experiences might mirror their own. And, I’ve teared up with a room full of tears as a young black female student told us, “Because of all this, I don’t know if I want to have children.” Jonathan Adams '16 presented the Student Address at PLU's 2015 Convocation on Sept. 8. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) The most recent story of racist tragedy is this summer’s mass murder of the Charleston Nine at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. You’ll all remember
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Resident Assistants are trained and paid student leaders who are committed to creating an inclusive living/learning community in the residence halls.
wellness wheel model and utilize this model to create vibrant wing programs and activities.Upper Division Learning Community (South & Harstad)In addition to general RA responsibilities, the Upper Division Housing RAs are placed in a South or Stuen wing and are trained to understand the needs of upper class, transfer, graduate, and married/domestically partnered students. RA Hours and Compensation Average of 13 hours/week, with extended hours in the beginning and end of semesters Compensation will
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Su Qiaoling Guangxi University of Science and Technology, China Su Qiaoling was hosted by the PLU School of Business; their area of focus was on business education in the American context.
. Ding Yingying was hosted by Center for Graduate and Continuing Education. Byungsoo Na Korea University Sejong Campus, South Korea Byungsoo is hosted by the PLU School of Business, and his research is in the area of Operations Management with a specific focus on returnable packaging in a closed loop supply chain. Yao Yuan Shandong Foreign Trade Vocational College, China Yao Yuan was hosted by the Center for Graduate and Continuing Education; their current research area emphasizes reforms on teaching
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School of Business | craiggr@plu.edu | Gordon Craig is an Audit Manager with the U.S. Army Audit Agency—the Army’s internal audit organization.
, and equipment maintenance. He’s also provided audit support to several fraud investigations by Army law enforcement. He’s worked in Army Audit’s offices at Fort Belvoir (Alexandria), VA; Seoul, South Korea (3 times for 11 years total); and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA. Gordon has taught auditing and tax accounting courses at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA since September 2017. He has also taught auditing for Saint Martin’s University at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Education Center
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