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point during their four years, primarily because studying away is so accessible thanks to transferable financial aid and deep connections abroad. Zimmerman said funding study away is incredibly important because it helps an individual grow as a person and experience new cultures and ideas. “Coming from a little town to PLU really broadened my understanding of myself and my understanding of other people. It’s teaching me how to be a better nurse and a better person in general because of that growth

potentially huge impact. “She is on the ground floor of a relatively new field that has the possibility of making all kinds of great insights into cancer in the evolution of history,” Ryan said. As Hunt and other researchers unearth more and more ancient evidence—breast cancer in 3500 B.C. Egypt, osteo-sarcoma in a T. rex femur—Hunt has formed an intriguing theory: She believes cancer is inherent in human beings and is aggravated by—rather than caused by—environmental factors. Her goal now is to gather

higher quality students if it is a little harder to be admitted.True.  During our enrollment challenge of the last couple of years, we have maintained two important indicators of quality: GPA/SAT and Net Tuition Revenue Per Student.  We didn’t sacrifice quality to bring in the numbers we wanted; we stuck to our commitment to quality and preparation. *Note: All comments are moderated If we add new graduate programs does this mean that we are taking away other graduate programs?So far, the feeling

find Washington state and Tacoma. The children have all been in the United States for various stretches of time, from less than a year to more than three years. Some were originally resettled in Tacoma, while others were invited to move by Bantu families already in Tacoma. Those families came from Texas, Utah and even New York as part of a “second migration,” Fisher said. Despite the tutoring obstacles, the experience has been extremely rewarding, Baumer said. The younger children are adorable and

, groundbreaking career: She graduated from West Point as part of only the third class to admit female cadets; She flew helicopters as a Medevac pilot in Operation Desert Storm; She commanded a medical unit at Fort Drum in New York; and She now serves as the Soldier Readiness Officer of the U.S. Army’s largest division, the 7th Infantry Division at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where she also runs SHARP, the Sexual Harassment/Assault Response Prevention program established there in 2012. Not many people, though

of study that includes necessary prerequisites for graduate dietetics programs, all while pursuing a second degree in biology. Hurd also plays basketball at PLU. This summer, Hurd was an intern at Custom Fit Nutrition, a clinic with locations in Auburn and Olympia that focuses on food sensitivities. She helped troubleshoot new products and wrote dietary guides, but the majority of her work involved shadowing a registered dietician. “It was really fun,” Hurd said. “The dietician let me sit in on

experience going to the barber shop instead of a beauty parlor for hair care, and how that choice influenced their hair journey and gender identity. A different participant discussed being called a boy by her family members after cutting her hair short and embracing her femininity in a new way through that experience. The third theme concerned hair and body health and the return to identity. “For a lot (of the women), it was a personal health choice,” Taiwo said. “Both thinking about the strength of hair