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and care for the environment is a genuine embodiment of the PLU mission statement,” Davidson said.Event DetailsDo you know your U.S. Latino history? As partners in the prestigious Latino Americans: 500 Years of History* grant, PLU will join universities and community organizations across the nation in the effort to celebrate and promote the untold stories of Latino/as in the United States. Please join us Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 6 p.m. in Chris Knutson Hall for the 1st Annual César Chávez and Dolores

said this interconnectedness and unity through life force is why we should all care about and study the environment. “Our world is sick,” she said. Furthermore, she said it’s important to interact with nature and other cultures outside of the classroom. “For native students and non-native students alike there tends to be a huge disconnect between studying and actually being out in the environment taking action and partaking in outdoor activities,” Hall said. Hall, who is from Puyallup, first

faced medical troubles, Ebi was traveling a month and a half each year for his photography. Last year, he traveled just six days. “The problem with dialysis is that it keeps you alive but it doesn’t give you the life that you had,” he said. “You have your life, but it isn’t really living.” To care for his wife and help her with dialysis, Ebi has switched gears with his photography business. He is working with inventory that is already cataloged. He’s exploring the area around his home with the “same

to him. One of those applications included a position at Netflix, the popular streaming service based out of Los Gatos, California.  “I was like ‘I’m definitely not going to get this,’ but I was doing the shotgun approach, so I really didn’t care,” Ronquillo said. About a week later he received a notification that his resume had been processed and he was invited to take a technical assessment. One application and many hoops later, Ronquillo was hired at Netflix as a user experience developer

leave for Namibia, where she will spend nine months studying infection rates in the neonatal intensive care unit of the country’s largest hospital, Windhoek Central Hospital. And while the research isn’t directly tied to neurosurgery, her work in this area has the potential to affect multiple aspects of the medical field. “I’ve narrowed my research down to whether hand hygiene and infection control interventions reduce hospital-associated central line infections,” Larios says. “There’s only been

Voyager 1 spacecraft as well as Carl Sagan’s prose reflecting on the image. In the photo, Earth appears as a single pixel – “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” For this project, Dr. Gillie collaborated with video editor and PLU student Zixuan Guo. We recently met with Professor Gillie to discuss this project. This is clearly a film and composition that have something to say about climate and care for the earth.  Yes, I think artists can provide critique and commentary on the state of the times in

in 1989, Lander moved to Hong Kong with his future wife, whom he met in China—she was on a similar one-year study abroad program through her UK-based university. After a brief period at the US refugee resettlement program, Lander was hired by the UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) where he worked for 20 years, responding to refugee crises around the globe. Along the way, he earned two master’s degrees—one in development management, and another in international humanitarian law and human

often overbooked, with patients waiting for care. They plan to expand, but may need a few million if a grant doesn’t pan out. They look expectantly at Parnell, who remains pleasant, but noncommittal. “Budget time,” he smiles as he climbs back in the SUV that seems to be the favored mode of transportation in this state. Then it’s off to the airport and a flight to Juneau to meet with lawmakers later that night. It’s going to be another long day. Read Previous A ‘Twilight’ experience Read Next LEED

said. Nelson, himself had a mild case of pulmonary edema he had to overcome. It can be fatal, if not taken care of properly. He listened to the doctors and treated it by dropping altitudes and taking the proper pharmaceuticals. “They have doctors up there,” Nelson said. “They green lighted me and there I went.” “It can be a big danger if you come down with that because you can’t really move,” he said. “I guess I took a risk by doing that, but it didn’t feel like that at the time. “There was time

been, quite simply, recognized as one of the most important figures in public health.   Shaping the global health care discussion Foege became executive director of The Carter Center in 1986 and continues to serve the organization as a senior fellow. He has served on the PLU board of regents and received an honorary doctorate from PLU in 2000, when he was the university’s commencement speaker. He helped shape the global health work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and remains a champion of