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September 15, 2011 Physics Instructor, Dana Rush, talks about the Hubble Space Telescope in the community room of the GBC. Exploring with Hubble By Chris Albert For more than a decade, the Hubble Space Telescope has been opening doors to the universe. Through its lens, we’ve received astonishing views – from the formation of stars and planets to getting a glimpse of the impact of a comet colliding with Jupiter. Dana Rush, PLU physics instructor, presented a multimedia lecture on the Hubble
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Carli Snyder talks about her research and essay as the winner of the Lemkin Essay Contest at PLU, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Raphael Lemkin Essay ContestGENOCIDE: What does it mean to you? Through the efforts of alumnus and Regent Donald R. Morken and colleague Bruce Littman, PLU sponsors annual scholarships in honor of Raphael Lemkin. Lemkin coined the term “genocide” and labored for passage of the United Nations genocide convention, which outlaws destruction of races
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a “foundational core to everything that we do.” “You always have to prove everything out there with numbers,” she said. “I intentionally chose Peru because it is not something I would normally do on my own. And so I think PLU kind of pushes you outside your boundaries to have new experiences you wouldn’t otherwise have. I found that in Peru.” She started her career as an accountant in Seattle, followed by a job in Portland. Once her husband, Geoff Loomis, was hired as head coach of the PLU
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as head coach of the PLU baseball team, she followed him back to the South Sound. A similar situation resulted in her recent boomerang south. Last month, Loomis started as senior vice president and CFO for Legacy Health, rejoining her husband who is now the head baseball coach at the University of Portland. “It’s a little strange,” Loomis said. “In many ways I’ve grown up (at MultiCare) professionally and I’ve seen the organization through so many changes and it’s hard to leave an organization
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what you believe is best for students,” she said. When she was in ASPLU, Ward said, “we were able to work with Student Life to make birth control available at the Student Health Center. “If you do not act, who will?” Personal interaction, collaboration and compromise were the lessons that David C. Wold ’56 took from his days as an ASPLC officer. He distinctly recalls the importance of “working with groups holding varying viewpoints and gaining the ability to guide them toward a workable solution to
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of their main revenue source, Tulip Town staff sold bulbs and organic flour from a farm stand in their parking lot. They also developed a shipping program, allowing them to sell to remote customers for the first time.Less orthodox was a new program called “What’s at Stake” that allowed customers to honor loved ones by placing memory markers in the tulip fields. These are displayed on the company web site and were a much bigger hit than anticipated. “We thought there would be about 300 people that
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seriously consider the ways we interact with others who are from different backgrounds or who have different experiences.” Today, Chell is in her first year of medical school in Pasadena, California. She finds the work demanding but says that by reminding herself why she wants to become a doctor she can get through the difficult classes and tough coursework. “One thing that has been challenging for me is trying to keep really engaged in the things that I feel so strongly about, like decolonizing global
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September 23, 2011 Bob Zellner spoke to students about his experiences as a civil rights activist in the 1960s as part of the kick-off event for the Diversity Center’s 10 year anniversary. ‘We have a lot of work to do’ By Chris Albert While an angry crowd piled on top of Bob Zellner like a bunch of football players fighting over a loose ball, the last thing the twenty-something college student remembered was someone kicking him in the head and the thought “this is the way I die” crossing his
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