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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

  • , Mexico and Norway,” Youtz said. “The piece also utilizes some (optional) non-Western instruments, including Javanese gongs; Trinidadian steel drums; Chinese plucked, bowed and hammered strings; and Hardanger fiddles.” University Congregation President Ruth Kovanen ’15, also volunteer coordinator at PLU’s Women’s Center, created the artwork and stickers for this year’s Chapel program. September’s Chapel theme is “peace”; coming up are “joy” for October, “kindness” for November and “patience” for

  • graduate school.” “Perhaps now more than ever, I think the world needs as many young people as possible considering the issues and dilemmas of today through the lens of Economics, which considers the implications of scarcity and choice,” Travis says. “Our students leave with the tools to successfully contribute to society in many different venues.” Read Previous From Opportunity to Opry Read Next PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

  • green millet, the grain is a high-protein food staple and more nutritionally dense than rice. The National Science 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

  • showcase how salmon are valued in Western Washington. After one of these lessons “Ten-year-old Elliot Hougardy, in Hull’s class, said he’s interested in fish because he likes to eat fish and go fishing. ‘It’s cool because you can see all the organs in the fish,’ Hougardy said about the Wednesday presentation. ‘You see how they’re like us and how they’re different’” (Johnston). There is already a great interest in salmon that is also being passed on to the children as they are given a chance to interact

  • peace treaty. During this time woodcarvings were sold to raise money in support of the revolution. This poses the possibility that it became common that not all Makonde masks were used for their original purpose, and that the depiction of persons on the masks would have been altered to appease the buyers, most likely from Western countries. It is therefore possible that the two Makonde face masks in the PLU Collection were not made for the purpose for which the Makonde made masks, to express their

  • Earth Science Capstones 2024 Thursday, May 9th All presentations will take place in the Rieke science Center, room 109. 3:45-4pm, “New Detrital Zircon Age Constraints for the Darrington Phyllite East of the Straight Creek-Fraser River Fault” Iris Hernandez The Northern Cascades Strait Creek fault system creates a divide between the Coast Plutonic Complex and western North Cascade units with a 90km offset from the west side. Small amounts of the Easton suite can also be found on the east side of

  • for over a decade at Puget Sound schools, including University of Washington, Western Washington University – and, of course, Pacific Lutheran University. In 2007-8 she received a Fulbright Scholar award to teach American Literature in Azerbaijan. With grants from UNESCO and the Open Society Institute, she has returned regularly to the Caucasus to support the work of writers there, particularly women. She is co-editor and translator of a volume of poetry spanning 800 years by women from the region

  • Roe Projects2004: Samuel Torvend & Matthew Tabor, “Religious Responses to Hunger and Poverty in Western Washington” 2005-6: Patricia Killen, Roberta Brown, & Asha Ajmani, “Early Washington in the Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqually, 1846-1879” Eric Nelson & Steve Erbey, “A Troubled Look: An Investigation of the Eye and Face in Ancient Medicine and Literature Doug Oakman & Ronan Rooney, “Q, Literacy, and the Galilean Jesus Movement in Social Perspective” 2006-7: Bridget

  • February 6, 2013 Lutes around the world This January, more than 300 PLU students spent the term studying in places across the globe. Learn about their experiences through blogposts. The Birthplace of Western Music (Austria/Czech Republic/Slovakia) Saturday, Jan 12, 2013 By Karla Stoermer Is this real Life? The Vienna Philharmonic just blew my mind. Sometimes you experience something so awesome that you can’t put it into words. I am lucky enough to have that feeling tonight after seeing the