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before many of his peers. He attends physical training (PT) three times a week. He also gives up every other Thursday morning and four weekend days a semester for training with the Lute battalion. “It’s a challenge,” Velásquez admits. “It’s a lot of extra work on top of school work,” he said, adding that it’s well worth it. Velásquez’s parents went through Air Force ROTC at Oregon State University, and he knew he would follow a similar path. “I’ve been very practical. I was definitely after high

professional publications. An Atlanta-based physician and epidemiologist, Foege and colleagues founded the Task Force for Child Survival in 1984. While at the CDC, he forced drug companies to warn that aspirin might cause the sometimes-deadly Reye Syndrome, reacted quickly to alert women to the dangers of toxic shock syndrome and saw the first cases of a frightening new disease in the early 1980s: AIDS. Over his career, he has been, quite simply, recognized as one of the most important figures in public

stabilizing and transforming force in Oaxaca, but that it is limited in its developmental scope by its apolitical nature. Marianne Taylor, Ph.D., and Darla Avis Department of Psychology When Jack & Jill Switch Brains: How Development Affects Gender Identity Severtson Fellowship Do children and adults view gender identity as residing in one’s body or one’s brain? Previous research has used a hypothetical brain transplant between different animals to measure how children understand identity (e.g., if a pig

voters, with 90 percent passing the measure, Vraalsen said. “So it’s a solid mandate for the southern leadership,” he said. Ambassador Tom Eric Vraalsen talks to PLU Professor Ann Kelleher after Vraalsen’s Sudan presentation. And the voting itself was relatively quiet of violence, despite earlier predictions to the contrary. “It went very smoothly,” Vraalsen said, with nearly 2,600 polling stations around the country and a police force of 5,000 present to keep the peace. “Within four months they did

right decision, he admits now, 10 years later, it still turns over like a well-worn stone in his mind. “It was the right thing to do, but I’m going to have to live with that for the rest of my life,” he said. The book chronicles Hrivnak during his time in the in Iraq, when Hrivnak was a captain and flight nurse in an Air Force medevac unit charged with caring for U.S. casualties. Hrivnak first started writing the book – although he had no idea his musings would end up in newspapers, a documentary

at Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood on Wednesday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Army officials from the Pentagon will be on hand to capture community input as part of the Army’s overall force-structure analysis prior to making decisions on reductions. The Army is hopeful that participants will discuss “a full spectrum of issues” that will be used in making difficult decisions about structure and personnel cuts. “My fellow Lutes should come to the listening session because thoughtful

learning, serving and sharingThe third reading in the program is a piece by Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho that reads: “but love is much like a dam: if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure, and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. For when those walls come down, the love takes over, and it no longer matters what is possible or impossible;” How is this piece perhaps applicable to

scholarship funds and financial aid generally remain the same.” “These gradual tuition increases often throw off the careful financial calculations that students and their families made to enroll,” Belton continued. “Some students and families can end up cumulatively paying upwards of $10,000 to $12,000 more for education due to these incremental tuition hikes, and these are real costs that don’t have additional scholarship aid. This can push families into financial hardship or force students to leave

attended, Foege said the best professors, indeed the best teachers, were at PLU.“I really didn’t expect that,” said Foege, who said that four of his immediate family members, along with nieces and nephews, have attended PLU. “But after going through the UW and then Harvard, I realized it was true. The best professors I had were at PLU. “I tell students to relish their experience here,” he said. An Atlanta-based physician and epidemiologist, Foege and colleagues founded the Task Force for Child Survival

service extended beyond his Tacoma community, including a stint in the U.S. Air Force from 1946-48. A lifetime lover of the arts, Dick served as president of the Tacoma Opera Society, the Tacoma Art Museum, the Tacoma Philharmonic and the Pantages Center for the Arts. He also was a member of the Washington Association of Fine Arts Deans and the International Council of Fine Arts Deans. In every one of the many circles that Dick worked, he made an impact with people. He will be remembered for providing