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; however, the overriding theme is how various groups have been adversely affected by the economic incentives facing providers.” “Recently, I wrote a book chapter on health care and the middle class, and I am currently writing another on health care inequality in access. This work with Teresa really helped me to consider how access to care has changed over time and the importance of understanding its historical roots.” Presenting in Oklahoma Halvorson: “Teresa, you have presented the results of your
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broadly creative definitions of global health – such as “domestic, for-profit” global health for local biotech firms making drugs or devices with potential application overseas; “domestic non-profit” organizations working with immigrants (or Native Americans) as well as “international for-profit” firms with business links to Washington. “A key challenge in our report was to define and operationalize the concept of global health,” the UW authors acknowledged in their introduction to the report. Their
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. From the fellowship, Granum, an art and English major, hopes to parlay his love of the natural world and photography into full-time employment. “The experience of putting together this capstone has been absolutely invaluable,” he said. Eventually, Granum would like to make photographing and writing about endangered species his life’s work. “Yeah, I know it’s a cliché, but yes, I’d like to work for National Geographic,” he laughed. Jenny Stein studied colloidal dots and their capacity to absorb and
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, and to see meaning-making as a social activity, something negotiated. This is true whether we are working in the classroom or the community center, in print or online.My field, English and Writing Studies, shows us how to read deeply and to understand the world. More specifically, it helps us see, value, and interpret the enormous scope and scale of life and experience. When we see ourselves reflected in a children’s book or when we are seen through our virtual identities, we are situated within a
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training and education in the professions which modern society requires” [my italics]?To date, we have begun discussions about new programs in which courses offered by faculty in the professional schools would be combined with courses traditionally offered by faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professors in the professional schools are also being drawn into foundational courses, such as the Freshman experience. Potential cross-disciplinary programs that result from such creative overlaps are
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.” Feller calls these eight women the Cohort of Awesome. But they all insist they’re simply part of a larger campus mission. We’ve talked to all of them. We’re going with Awesome. NPCM: PLU’s Service Club of the Year PLU’s Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management (NPCM), a group of students, staff and faculty dedicated to promoting peace, creative conflict-management skills and community relationships, received the university’s 2014 Service Club of the Year Award. Founded in late 2012 by
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. McPherson’s review of the film Glory in the New Republic raise few important issues that were not debated apropos of Walter Scott’s historical novels. Vigny’s excessively bold views were never accepted even in the heyday of Romanticism. Balzac mocked Vigny’s pronouncement by writing in Les Deux Amis that it amounted to the claim that “There is a truth that is false and a falsehood that is true.” Students at the French Film Festival at PLU in 2019 In its critique of history’s pretensions to objective truth
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the companies and think about what you did in your PLU classes, you have have a leg up on the competition.” Marc: “Regarding how the fellowships work… the expertise of a faculty adviser is not just what they know as a scholar, but what they know about organizing your research and the writing process that is super helpful. Peter Grosvenor helped me to mold the research that I was doing into a policy paper that I felt proud of. As my project grew, I consulted other faculty members as well, and they
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Center “I put off writing this simply because when I thought about how to convey the impact of the Women’s Center in my life, I became overwhelmed. How could I put into words how deeply the Center had impacted me, both professionally and personally? Would whatever I wrote do that justice? The following is my best attempt to do so: When I arrived as a new employee on the PLU campus in the fall of 2006, I was looking for a place to connect with the larger university community. I had made several
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Reappraising the Rift Between Faith and Reason: Could Science Help Us Think About Religion? Posted by: alex.reed / May 20, 2022 May 20, 2022 By Keith J. CooperOriginally published in 1991Tertullian, an African Christian writing in the second century of the Church, is perhaps most famous for his defiant one-liner about the resurrection, “I believe it because it is absurd.” The only trouble is: he never wrote those words, and wouldn’t have meant them if he had. They are simply a misquotation. In
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