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Shelly Le February 14, 2013

Whitman Health Center Whitman's health center runs 24 hours a day and offers a range of services that include in-house lab testing, vaccines and travel health assistance, physical and massage therapy,...

Week in Review: February 10, 2013

Shelly Le February 10, 2013
Welcome to our third edition of the Week in Review! Each week, the news staff of The Pioneer brings you a list of the top national and international stories from the past week. If you want to know what you’ve missed, read on.

Week in Review: February 4, 2013

Shelly Le February 3, 2013
Our second edition of the Week in Review. Summaries on the senators' blueprint for immigration reform, the White House's compromise on the contraception healthcare policy, Pakistani Taliban raid, cyberattacks on major U.S. newspapers, and Seattle homeless day-centers' cut funding.

To Sumik!

Shelly Le November 25, 2012
My week in Sumik Village, located in East Sikkim, researching women's malnutrition.

Analyzing women’s (mal)nourishment in Sikkim

Shelly Le October 31, 2012
As a part of my studies with SIT, I am required to design and carry out a month long research project that pertains to sustainable development and social change in India. For my project, I plan to research women’s malnutrition in India, specifically researching factors that affect women’s nutritional status in India.

The fight continues

Shelly Le October 19, 2012
Thoughts on gender dynamics, gender inequality, and the power of education in India.

For the love of India

Shelly Le September 30, 2012
Even though I've attended Whitman for a little over two years now, I still seriously question the practicality of a liberal arts education within today's world. I often have moments of terror as to where my politics/sociology degree will take me after I'm beyond the walls of "Whitman's bubble".

Running expectations

Shelly Le September 9, 2012
Have you ever had a dream where you’re running but not running fast enough? The other day I was standing in a bazaar in Jaipur Old City when a man bumped into my backpack and took off running.
A cow on a street in Jaipur

Jaipur traffic: ‘No problem’

Shelly Le September 4, 2012
Namaste from Jaipur! It’s been a little over a week since I’ve arrived in India but I can’t adequately sum up my experience in one blog post.

75 percent nervousness

Shelly Le August 26, 2012
It’s time. I’m going to India! I can hardly believe it. I feel as though I've spent the past year hopping from place to place—from Walla Walla, Seattle and Los Angeles. But now that I'm finally comfortably settled in at my parents' home in Salt Lake City, the thought of leaving the known for another trip to an unknown environment makes me extremely nervous.
Credit: Allie Felt

Senior thesis profile: Gaea Campe

Shelly Le May 9, 2012
My thesis examines the interconnections between biodiversity and linguistic diversity and builds the argument that preserving the world's endangered indigenous languages is an ecological imperative. Indigenous languages have been spoken in the same bio-regions for thousands of years and have accrued knowledge of those ecosystems that's often beyond the scope and specificity of scientific literature.
Credit: Allie Felt

Senior thesis profile: Zach Schierl

Shelly Le May 9, 2012
"I started working on this project last summer with a research internship at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania." "[In my thesis] we looked at channels on one of the largest volcanoes on Mars, Ascraeus Mons and we tried to figure out if these channels are formed by flowing water or lava."
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