Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for our weekly meeting on July 14 featuring Bruce Balick.  Dr. Balick was a University of Washington Professor of Astronomy for 39 years. 

The meeting runs from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. The Zoom line will open at 7:00 a.m. for informal networking.

Just click here Thursday morning to join us. No registration is needed.

Bruce Balick was a member of the faculty of the Astronomy Department at the University of Washington from 1975 to 2014, including five years as its Chair.  He is best known for the discovery of the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.  His research portfolio includes studies of mass ejected from dying stars and violent outflows from galaxies.  He has served an many leadership roles for NASA, the American Astronomical Society, and the Faculty Senate of UW.  He presently supervises students in research projects and leads the UW outreach program at the Theodor Jacobsen Observatory on the campus.

Thanks to Paul Weibel for arranging this program.

Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for our weekly meeting this Thursday morning featuring University of Washington Professor Emeritus Jonathan Mayer on the very latest pandemic science.

The meeting runs from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. The Zoom line will open at 7:00 a.m. for informal networking.

Just click here Thursday morning to join us. No registration is needed.

It is hard to imagine anyone more qualified to speak about the pandemic.  Jonathan Mayer is a Professor of Epidemiology and Geography at the University of Washington.  He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, (Division of Infectious Diseases), Department of Family Medicine, and in Health Services, Global Health. He is Program Director, joint degree: MPH in Epidemiology/PhD Biocultural Anthropology.

This the fifth time we have asked him back to talk about the pandemic. Why? Here is a typical comment:

Dr. Mayer was fantastic.  He is incredibly knowledgeable about this topic and has the rare ability to communicate a complex topic to an audience.

Ana Mari Cauce is the 33rd President of the University of Washington where she has been a member of the faculty since 1986. A graduate of the University of Miami and Yale University, she is a noted scholar on risk and resilience among adolescents and has received numerous awards for her research as well as the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Before becoming President in 2015, she served as chair of the Departments of American Ethnic Studies and Psychology, as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and as Provost, the University’s chief academic officer. In 2008, she played a key role in establishing the Husky Promise, a program that has helped more than 40,000 low-income students attend the UW. Since becoming president, Cauce has put a spotlight on the UW’s work in population health across the University, launched the University’s Race & Equity Initiative and been a champion for ensuring the UW and public higher education across the country remain accessible and affordable for all students. As President, and throughout her tenure, she has worked to advance the University’s mission of serving the public good by focusing on the UW’s impact on the lives of the people in Washington and throughout the world. 

Thanks to Michael Bronsdon for arranging this program.

Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for our weekly meeting this Thursday morning featuring Andrea Suarez and the efforts of her organization, We Heart Seattle, to clean up the city.

The meeting runs from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. The Zoom line will open at 7:00 a.m. for informal networking.

Just click here Thursday morning to join us. No registration is needed.

Andrea Suarez, Founder of We Heart Seattle, has lived in King County for twenty-four years and in the downtown area since 2009. In September of 2020, she started ‘We Heart Seattle’ out of love for the city–wanting it clean and safe for all to enjoy.

To date, volunteers have cleared 500,000 pounds of trash, 20,000 needles and have housed 100 people. They started a movement to activate civic engagement and restored hope in our communities.

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers a helping hand to those in need.  Through direct civic engagement, We Heart Seattle leads the way to a more compassionate and healthy community.

Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for our weekly meeting this Thursday morning to hear Carolyn Maezes talk about a green alternative to traditional burial and cremation.

The meeting runs from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. The Zoom line will open at 7:00 a.m. for informal networking.

Just click here Thursday morning to join us. No registration is needed.

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Carolyn Maezes is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer of Earth Funeral, a green death care brand. Prior to joining Earth Funeral, Carolyn worked in healthcare, most recently as the Vice President of Patient Experience and Social Work Services at DaVita, a Fortune 200 healthcare company and the leading provider of kidney care services in the United States. Carolyn is also a hospice volunteer and trained End of Life Doula. 

Carolyn will provide an overview of soil transformation, which is an environmentally-friendly alternative to cremation. Over the course of 30-45 days, the body is gently and naturally transformed into nutrient-rich soil. Families can use the soil to plant a tree, garden, etc., and/or can scatter it in meaningful places. The majority of the soil is donated to a restoration project on the Olympic Peninsula. An Earth Soil Transformation is carbon-neutral and enables one’s last act to be a gift to the planet and future generations. 

Join the University Sunrise Rotary Club for our weekly meeting this Thursday morning to hear Rod Leeman from Cactus Family Farms talk about food myths!

The meeting runs from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. The Zoom line will open at 7:00 a.m. for informal networking.

Just click here Thursday morning to join us. No registration is needed.

With over 30,000 products in the average grocery store, addressing myths around food products is a growing area of interest for grocery shoppers. Your members will have the opportunity to hear from an active farmer, animal nutritionist, or livestock veterinarian who will provide a look into farms across America, address animal care on those farms, and provide pork cooking tips.  They will enjoy 2 videos.  One features a look into 3 commercial pork barns giving viewers a chance to see what goes on inside a modern barn. The other features award-winning actor and former pig farmer, Eric Stonestreet, examining 21^st-century pork production.

Rod Leeman is the Director of Business Development at Cactus Family Farms (CFF), the pork division of Cactus Feeders Inc., based out of Amarillo, TX. CFF owns pigs in Iowa, South Carolina, and Georgia and markets more than 850,000 pigs each year. Rod is also a member of the Iowa Pork Producers Association Board of Directors and serves on the committee level at the National Pork Producers Council. Mr. Leman serves as an industry volunteer and speaks nationwide. He graduated from the University of Minnesota – Morris in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Computer Science.

Rod and his wife, Susan, have five children and live in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He is a farmer, an industry leader, and he has been a volunteer speaker for the National Pork Board since 2008.

An online google doc audience evaluation form has been created.  There is a slide at the end of the presentation with a QR code that will take the attendees to the audience evaluation. The online form only takes a few moments to complete. Please fill out the evaluation.  Your feedback helps keep presentations up to date, informative and engaging.  You can also find the link here