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compassion towards the global circumstance that would one day become manifest in the body of his work. In Katmandu, Youtz and Unsoeld landed a gig housesitting for John Seidensticker who was, at the time, conducting post-doctoral research on tigers and jaguars in the Tibetan backcountry. Seidensticker, who is now the head of the Conservation Ecology Center at the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park, subsequently introduced the pair to another survey tracking nearby rhino populations. Assisting in both

—from first-year requirements to seniors engaged in upper-division study. “We’ve been emphasizing plants in our curriculum because they’re an important model system,” Biology Chair Ann Auman said. “All different aspects of biology can be illustrated through the use of plants: small biology, genetics, molecular biology, organismal biology, ecology and evolution.” Biology’s two-course introductory core sequence, for example, uses plants to introduce students to biological studies; an upper-division

’ permission. Information is protected with encryption and conforms to HIPAA requirements to ensure privacy. “This is one of many investments we’re making in developing an ecology of well-being,” Royce-Davis says, describing a whole-person approach to mental and physical health. “The goal is to offer prevention and timely resources that keep students thriving overall and are supportive of their persistence and overall success at PLU.”The new service officially becomes available on February 6, the first day

of the HIV/AIDS crisis, because they didn’t live in a time when the disease was almost always fatal. She urges students to see Serko’s production so they can reconsider how they actively engage with queer rights. “People should take the things they hear in this play seriously,” she said. “They’re going to be seeing a profile of someone who was an activist of his particular time, his particular identity and his particular experience. That should challenge them to be thinking about where they are

patient’s mother put her on her current path. The woman had been reading about vaccines on the Internet, and she was worried that they might be harmful to her child. McFadden’s need to convince her otherwise went beyond her professional obligation; her aunt and uncle wore leg braces and needed crutches thanks to polio, a disease they had contracted in the early 1950s before the introduction of Jonas Salk’s vaccine. “It was a really challenging conversation,” McFadden recalled. “I firmly believe that

Foundation and other funding sources support the project. “Although millet is a culturally and nutritionally important food in Asia and Africa, it’s not commonly grown in western agriculture, so there’s not a lot of research,” Laurie-Berry says. A similar process of genetic experimentation refined rice production around 50 years ago. “After we figure out which genes control yield, the center will cross-breed those traits into disease-resistant varieties adapted for growth in India or Africa,” she says

can’t believe I’m actually here,” Hobson said. “I really expected to be busting my butt for a few years.” Hobson plays the doctor in “Next to Normal,” the critically acclaimed musical about a family whose mother is suffering from bi-polar disease. It garnered three Tony Awards last June, and is generally considered to be the best new musical to hit Broadway in a while. On Monday, April 12, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. And Hobson is right in the middle of it. He admits he took a huge