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, Hospitality Services & Campus Restaurants is also focusing efforts towards organic purchasing decisions for products such as eggs milk as well as specific meats such as chicken and beef. We are continually finding new ways to improve our sustainability efforts. The main area we focus on are: Minimizing our Environmental Impact Composting & reducing the amount of waste we send to the landfill. Through prudence, determination and research, we have reduced the waste sent to the landfill by an astounding
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microorganisms, minuscule life forms, wield a vital influence over our planet’s climate. They manage crucial components like carbon and oxygen within the vast oceans and the atmosphere.Over the summer, Professor Angie Boysen and her dedicated team, Lydia Flaspohler ’25, a biology major, and Ryan Fisher ’24, a biology major and environmental studies minor, embarked on a mission to unravel the secrets of these microorganisms. Professor Boysen, Flaspohler and Fisher aimed to understand the compounds these
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Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). Learn why Brooke received this high honor. Andrew Schwartz '07 Andrew Schwartz’s journey from PLU sociology major to environmental justice advocate and eco-ministry leaderWhen we first catch up with environmental advocate Andrew Schwartz ’07, he’s preparing for a massive road trip with his wife, Emily, and 8-month-old daughter, Maja. They’re headed east to visit Emily’s family in Illinois. But the 36-year-old Schwartz’s life has also been a
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Examined Life - VW PHIL 125 Ethics and the Good Life - VW PHIL 128 Politics and the Good Society - VW PHIL 220 Philosophy and Gender - VW PHIL 223 Bioethics - VW PHIL 225 Business Ethics - VW PHIL 226 Environmental Ethics - VW PHIL 227 Philosophy and Race - VW PHIL 229 Human Rights - VW PHIL 231 Ancient Philosophy - VW PHIL 238 Existentialism and the Meaning of Life - VW PHIL 311 Topics in Ethics - VW PHIL 312 Topics in Philosophy and Politics - VW PHIL 313 Topics in Philosophy, Science, and Religion
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socioeconomically disadvantaged students and those who are studying at small liberal art colleges. Prior experience in research is not a prerequisite for applying to the UT Southwestern Amgen Scholars program. Read Previous Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) at University of Texas Read Next Learn about UC Davis Ag & Environmental Chemistry Graduate Group LATEST POSTS ACS Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Respect (DEIR) Scholarship May 7, 2024 Environmental Lab Scientist in Training May 2, 2024 The
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of a cultural matrix that brought into being desires–for travel, for commodities, for lifestyles–that are unsustainable in the face of our current environmental crises (The Great Derangement 2016). Ghosh’s decision to single out Austen from among her contemporaries is one more manifestation of her staying power, of her grasp on our literary consciousness. We want to take his statement seriously and trouble it as well. In particular, we hope to highlight how Ghosh’s claim about how Austen’s era
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October 15, 2013 He Speaks for the Trees By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Pacific Lutheran University’s Sustainability Department has a new Sustainability Lead with a suiting name for the profession: Lorax. Nick Lorax, a 2011 graduate, joined the PLU staff in May and has found a home here—for the second time. “I love it in a whole different manner now,” said Lorax, who graduated with an Environmental Studies major and Biology minor. Lorax, known as Nicholas Steele as a student, said he discovered his
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October 17, 2014 3 Free Events at PLU Celebrate the Legacy of Thor Heyerdahl PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 17, 2014)—The Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University honors the 100-year anniversary of Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl’s birth with three events that celebrate the impact he made on PLU, environmental scholarship, anthropological theory and Norwegians around the world. Heyerdahl, who first came to the world’s attention in 1947 for his
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A Semester in CopenhagenBailey Smith is a junior Environmental Studies major and Sociology minor who studied away during Spring Semester of 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. While exploring various study away options with Carmen at the Wang Center, Bailey discovered the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS). While she was originally interested in studying away in other European countries such as France or England, she soon came to realize that DIS was the right program for her. She relates how
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March 13th. http://kaliesaathoff.blogspot.com/ https://alicehender.wordpress.com/ Read Previous Study in Africa Next Spring! Read Next Scholarships from the American Chemical Society Puget Sound Section – Deadline April 1 LATEST POSTS ACS Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Respect (DEIR) Scholarship May 7, 2024 Environmental Lab Scientist in Training May 2, 2024 The Priscilla Carney Jones Scholarship April 18, 2024 $2000 DEIR scholarship- Extended Deadline May 15! April 16, 2024
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