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advocate for issues she is passionate about.“Elana Meyers Taylor is an iconic athlete and a passionate champion of important causes, including access and resources for female athletes, concussion research and public education,” said PLU President Allan Belton. “We’re thrilled she will be joining us to celebrate PLU’s class of 2023.” Meyers Taylor is a four-time World Champion, eight-time World Championships medalist, three-time Winter Olympian and medalist (2010, 2014, 2018) and 2015 World Cup champion

open to the public, and there will be a Q&A session and a book signing following the lecture. Visit PLU Natural Sciences for more information and to register for the dinner. Read Previous PLU’s Continuing Education launches TESOL Certification with $200 discount for PLU community members Read Next Associate Professor Emily Davidson receives 2023 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or

. Rich and Ann have four granddaughters: Taylor, Emma, Molly, and Lauren.The lecture is free and open to the public. Visit the PLU Events Calendar for more information.× Dr. Richard Lapchick – UCF College of Business Administration Read Previous PLU, MultiCare, WSU roll out new health care partnership Read Next PLU professor curates an Oxford Univ. museum collection at the intersection of religion, medicine and disability COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you

the levels in place before the Great Recession. A key concern for us is the split that cropped up a few years ago between the level of funding given to students attending the state’s public research universities (UW and WSU) and the 10 private universities in the state. In the last legislative session, the Legislature passed a resolution indicating a desire to restore parity between the research universities and the private colleges, but now, in the current session, we’ll need to see that

Seattle Central Public Library. After the screening a panel discussion will take place, followed by a reception. The event is free. “First and foremost I hope people become more educated about the topic,” Rodriguez said. “And I hope it inspires people to make a difference.” While filming, they interviewed nearly 70 people from industry leaders, energy experts and political powers to the everyday person on the street. They took 65 hours of film and nearly 2,000 photos that have all been brought down to

visit to PLU last week of waking up to find his village attacked in 1996. He was separated from his family, several of which he still has not found. He spent years in a relocation camp before coming in the U.S. in 2008, where he met up with Kleiman. While being acclimatized to the U.S., Kimenyera also now works with youth and tells of his story and of the widespread destruction and killings still occurring in the Congo. “You need to hold public officials accountable,” when you do find out about a

profoundly impacted by whatever they did,” she said. Bozich, a global studies and biology double major, completed her public health internship in August. She spent two months over the summer living in D.C., assisting with program development and grant writing, as well as learning about the politics surrounding humanitarian work.She said her experiences underscored her passion for a future in public health. “This internship definitely re-instilled the passion in me to work with women’s health and

idea of putting her global studies major to work to help others. In March of 2020, she found herself in Guinea, West Africa working as a public health educator.She was more than a year into her service when rumblings began that there was a deadly virus, COVID-19, making its way around the globe. But in Guinea, Chell had only heard of one confirmed case. Initial communication from the Peace Corps was that volunteers could choose to stay or return home and exit the program. Chell welcomed the news

height of a likely very short person who’s GH-deficient, then a human need would also seem to be served by treating successfully a non-GH-deficient patient who is likely to be equally short. The ground for treating either at insurance company or public expense is the fact that their height can be a real handicap in the lives patients will lead.We may desperately want “disease” to do the line-drawing trick for us here, but other than some crude distinction between serious diseases on the one hand and

sciences at PLU is investing in future nurses of our community. It is also investing in future physical therapists and doctors — all sorts of future healthcare professionals. So, investing back into PLU is investing in the future of public health and care. It’s investing in your future. Interested in Nursing?he School of Nursing at Pacific Lutheran University is a professional school that combines nursing science with a strong foundation in natural sciences and the liberal arts. Read Previous Summer