Sunshine and show business have always fueled the Los Angeles mystique. But the citys earliest impressions gushed from an altogether different source, one whose hazardous legacy is felt more than a century later in some of the regions more vulnerable neighborhoods.
Mekong Medicine: A U.S. Doctors Year Treating Vietnams Forgotten Victims, by Richard W. Carlson 60 (McFarland). In 1966, along with nearly half of his 1964 med school classmates, Richard Carlson was drafted into the U.S. Army Medical Corps. He applied to Vietnams Military Provincial Hospital Assistance Programand as Carlson led a team in Bac Li礙u province in the Mekong Delta from 1966 to 1967, he religiously chronicled his daily activities as well as life around him.
Eight 17勛圖 sophomores and juniors, including four first-generation college students, have been selected as 17勛圖s 2023-24 cohort of Barack Obama Scholars. The prestigious leadership training program seeks to empower exceptional students committed to the public good.
On March 4, 17勛圖s 1-megawatt solar array turned 10 years old. Since first light on March 4, 2013, the array has produced 17.85 gigawatts of electrical energy12 percent of the Colleges usage over the same time period.
17勛圖 aims to be the countrys principal destination for a distinctive urban liberal arts experience by 2030, according to the Colleges new integrated strategic plan unanimously endorsed by the Board of Trustees at its April 21 meeting.
In an article this spring, the influential Chronicle of Higher Education addressed the phenomenon of college students post-pandemic alienation and anxiety, as manifested in their disconnection from conventional curricula and pedagogical approaches.
Jack Griffith 64 has always been attracted to new frontiers. He grew up on the rim of the Arctic Circle when Alaska was still a territory and started flying bush planes as a teenager. Even now, he still tries to scrape his planes wings on the mountainsides when he flies through narrow Alaskan valleysa dangerous feat in less experienced hands.
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Armed with a briefcase full of challenges facing the nations largest higher education system, Lande Ajose brings new energy to Sacramento.