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The Alumni Association, School of Medicine of Loma Linda University is a nonprofit organization composed of both alumni and affiliate members, organized to support the School, to promote excellence in world-wide health care, and to serve its members.

Photo Contest Gallery

Pleiades (M 45) (Seven Sisters) (Subaru) (located about 450 light years from earth)

Photographer: Burton Briggs '66

Camera: Canon 20Da

Lens: 180 mm, f 2.8 Takashai telescope

Comments: Taken January 16, 2009 from Cherry Valley, California.  It is a "stack" of 30 2-minute exposures. The images were 'stacked' in ImagesPlus, 2.75, and color adjusted with Photoshop.

(Additional Note: The seven of the brightest 9 stars were named after the 7 sisters of Greek methology: SteropeMeropeElectraMaiaTaygeteCelaeno, and Alcyone.) 

 

 

 

 

Another entry by Burton Briggs '66, the "mountains of the moon."

 

Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) chicks, approximately nine days old

Photographer: Dennis E. Park '07-hon

Camera: Nikon D200

Lens: AF-S Nikor 18-200mm 1:35-5.6 G ED DX VR

Filter: Hoya HMC 72mm UV(0)

Comments: Photo taken on June 2, 2009, at approximately 2:30 p.m. in Loma Linda, California, at the Charland House—Office of Legal Council, Loma Linda University

 

The Mound City Chronicles

A pictorial history of Loma Linda University, a health sciences institution.

Alumni JOURNAL

The JOURNAL is a quarterly publication produced by the Alumni Association.

Student Guide

Each year the Alumni Association compiles a guide for survival and mails it to incoming students.