PSU Ph.D. Candidate Trusts That Failure Can Lead to Success In Earthquake Research

Kayla Sorenson ‘19 ‘21, now a Ph.D. candidate in civil and environmental engineering at Portland State University researches the stability of soil to ensure that city of Portland can survive its next big earthquake. Learn more about how she harnessed her failures to gain success as a student and engineer.
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“The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story-hard to understand and even harder to solve. Indeed, the story of Palestine has been told before: European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.” Noam Chomsky “The biggest insult to the memory of the holocaust is not denying it but using it as an excuse to justify the genocide of the Palestinian people.” Norman Finkelstein I studied history at PSU and I feel like they said universities should act different if they are in a country funding a genocide but I could be fuzzy on it.

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I see you and up it to “Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you’re doing it, Right now.” Aaron Bushnell 🐻 I plead for an end to the military operations with their appalling harvest of innocent civilian victims, and call for a solution to the desperate humanitarian situation by an opening to the provision of humanitarian aid. Pope Francis 🐼

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I love PSU and want to know if I can get a degree in courage like any of these find doctors back from the strip Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, Pediatrician Dr. Irfan Galaria, Reconstructive Surgeon Dr. Mads Gilbert, Anesthesiologist and Head of Emergency Medicine UHNN. Dr. Tariq Haddad, Cardiologist Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Reconstructive Surgeon Dr. Thaer Ahmad, Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Nick Maynard, Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Professor, Oxford University Dr. Audrey McMahon, MSF Psychiatrist ⚕

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What do the academics have to say? let us hear their considered response

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Audrey McMahon is recent and is from Doctors Without Borders. Really worth listening to her.