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  • Assistant Professor of Education | School of Education | jwright@plu.edu | John Wright teaches special education methods courses, as well as courses in assistive technology, autism, and behavior management.

    John Wright Assistant Professor of Education Email: jwright@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Special Education, Vanderbilt University, 2019 M.B.A., University of Illinois-Chicago, 1999 M.A., Modern Languages, University of Arizona, 1997 B.S., Math, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 1995 B.A., German, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 1995 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Inclusive Instructional Practices for students with disabilities Autism Spectrum Disorder Early

  • Resident Assistant Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | reimerjm@plu.edu | 253-535-7128

    with face validity for autism and altered striatal and hippocampal function." Autism Res. 2016: Jaramillo TC, Speed, HE, Xuan Z, Reimers JM, Liu S, Powell, CM . "Altered Striatal Synaptic Function and Abnormal Behaviour in Shank3 Exon4-9 Deletion Mouse Model of Autism." Autism Res. 2016: 350-375. Speed HE, Kouser M, Xuan Z, Reimers JM, Ochoa CF, Gupta N, Liu S, Powell CM . "Autism-Associated Insertion Mutation (insG) of Shank3 Exon 21 Causes Impaired Synaptic Transmission and Behavioral Deficits

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  • Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | riley.stumpf@plu.edu

    Riley Stumpf Assistant Professor of Nursing Email: riley.stumpf@plu.edu Professional Education BSN, Nursing , Cleveland State University, 2016 MPH, Global Health, University of Washington, 2023 DNP, Nursing, University of Washington, 2023 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Labs and Clinicals NURS 316 and NURS403 Selected Presentations Student Outstanding Work Award Candidate APHA, Alternative to discipline as an intervention to address substance use disorder among nurses licensed in Alaska, APHA

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  • Assistant Professor | School of Business | lin@plu.edu | 253-535-8722 | Dr.

    . He has extensive teaching experience across a broad spectrum of finance courses, including investments, corporate finance, international finance, derivatives, and financial markets. Dr. Lin’s research primarily leverages data to explore corporate finance issues such as executive compensation and debt management. He is also interested in sports economics and energy economics.

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  • AV Technician | Information & Technology Services | pbrockwell@plu.edu | 253-535-7261 | Patrick is a native of Tacoma, having grown up about a mile away from the PLU campus.

    for venues ranging throughout the Seattle/Tacoma region, worked in a corporate audio visual setting, completed location audio recording projects for television and video and worked on recording and touring with his musical projects.  He looks forward to using his varied experience across the spectrum of audio and video in order to enhance the learning ecosystem at PLU.

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  • Professor of Kinesiology | Department of Kinesiology | papadoha@plu.edu | 253-535-8706

    adults in metropolitan and micropolitan counties with M. Berdis, M. Madlem, B.E. Saelens, J.F. Sallis, L. Frank, A. King, Denver, CO (2011) Selected Articles J. Brown, C. Papadopoulos, and R. Pritchett. "Examination of Injury in Female Gaelic Football." International Journal of Exercise Science Vol. 6(2), 2013: 98-105. S.L. Vargas, K. Kerr-Pritchett, C. Papadopoulos, and V. Bennet. "Dietary Habits, Menstrual Health, Body Composition, and Eating Disorder Risk Among Collegiate Volleyball Players: A

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  • Dept. Chair and Program Director of Marriage and Family Therapy | Marriage and Family Therapy | ofarrefe@plu.edu | 253-535-8802 | Dr.

    . Fiona is enthusiastic about training emerging therapists to adopt systemic thinking to explore the intersection of self-development, relational work, consent, and sexuality. Fiona’s clinical practice supports relational clients in full-spectrum identity work, relationship enhancement, consent, shame reduction, dismantling binaries, and queer- affirmative care. Fiona’s research centers on improving clinical training standards by integrating developmental frameworks and consent concepts into

  • Assistant Professor of Social Work | Department of Social Work | rwinnett@plu.edu | 253-535-7144 | Dr.

    collaborative behavior and safety” (Studies in Clinical Social Work, 2024) and “The experiences of hospital social workers who care for homeless patients: An interpretive phenomenological analysis” (Social Work in Health Care, 2022). His research interests include the care of unhoused hospital patients, clinical intervention in hospitals, and health care social work on a global spectrum.

  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | David Biespiel is a contributing writer at The Rumpus, Partisan, American Poetry Review, Politico, New Republic, Slate, Poetry, and The New York Times, among other publications.  He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry.  His books of essays include A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry and a book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces.  He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.  Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, Portland State University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities.  He is a longtime faculty member in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland. Mentor.

    , serving both young and old, poetry is a guide to deliver us into a fresh engagement with our inner lives and with modernity. If we care about order and disorder, then poetry matters because it is the art of the utterance of beauty and the grotesque. If we care about the deepest aspirations of men and women across every community and culture, language and race, then poetry is always relevant because it is the art of the utterance of what we share in our innermost psyches. Since culture and society

  • Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | gwest@plu.edu | 253-535-7348 | I am a nurse scientist with a focus of research on infection control topics.  I joined the Lute team in September of 2022 and enjoy teaching various courses across the BSN, MSN, and DNP curriculum. .

    : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2019.02.022 Resendiz, M., Horseman, T.S., Hover, A.J., Bradley, D.F., Lustik, M.B., West, G.F. (2020). Assessment of Surgical Instrument Bioburden After Steam Sterilization: A Pilot Study. American Journal of Infection Control, 48 (2), 219-221, doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.08.018. Torres, L., Nelson, F., West, G. (2020). Exploring the Effects of a Nurse-Initiated Diary Intervention on Post–Critical Care Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. American Journal of Nursing, 120(5), 24