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according to the complex joys and troubles of living. I believe both art and artist fare better when we advance aesthetic choices together with questions about the philosophical implications behind our creative work. I also find that candor about my own failures and successes can help reframe the writing process on more accessible and therefore healthier terms. Through a combination of support, challenge, and surprise, writers should leave workshop with a renewed sense of reflection and feeling

of Exploration, Trade, and Empires. ABC-CLIO, 2017. In 2016, with the support of a travel grant from the First Year Experience Program and a Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education grant she presented research on the pedagogy of teaching World History, at the World History Association Conference in Ghent, and also while in Europe completed research for her current book project through researching breweries in Belgium and champagne houses in France. She teaches a core course for the

, and feel it is my calling to be present for those who need support through this grand adventure called LIFE! My main goal is to help you cut through the minutiae of your own mind, implement tools that will help you take back the authority of your life and propel you forward on the path of your choosing.  I believe in creating “brave spaces” within the therapy room.  My style of therapy is a little different as I believe therapy does not have to be a long drawn out process, nor a deep dive, in

, Pathways to Culturally Sustaining STEM Teaching with Drs. Simic-Muller and Munro. In this grant they recruit, prepare, and support new teachers’ implementation of ambitious and equitable STEM teaching in Title 1 schools. Dr. Gardiner is also an active member in the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Literacy Research Association (LRA), and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

other narrative? How can this work that seems so different from what I want to do help me achieve my goals? In both workshops and mentorship settings I again stress the concept of community not only as etiquette that should be practiced out of respect within an academic environment, but also as a practice of a working writer. Nobody truly writes alone and nobody publishes alone. In addition to conversations about writing, I place a focus on how we should all strive to support writers and the larger

and dear friend. It is through her honesty, gentle encouragement and support that I am doing something I truly enjoy doing: teaching. Teaching Philosophy Although I believe that part of a professor’s job is to instruct students and give them basic knowledge, a much larger part of the job is encouraging students to take an active role in their own learning. By being enthusiastic about psychology and education in general, I try to motivate students and stimulate their natural desire to learn. To

, Taylor & Francis publishers, 2007-2017 PLU Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) Grant to fund “Social Media and Video Podcasts to support a new course in Media Computation,” 2011-2012 Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC) Proof of Concept Grant to fund “Scaffolding active programming instruction with theoretically grounded screencasts and annotated worked examples,” with David Wolff, 2008-2009 Professional Memberships/Organizations Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special

Oregon). Other collaborative projects include recording and performing with Jake McNeillie on his albums, Dream Country and Delirium: A Southern Gothic Fable, as well as recording with singer-songrwriter Albert Howell, We Have A Ghost, and This Patch of Sky. Additionally, Dr. Lader has done outreach work with CardioStart International, performing live to support the organizations mission to provide free heart surgeries in developing countries.

. Cheng. "SMOQ: a tool for predicting the absolute residue-specific quality of a single protein model with support vector machines." BMC Bioinformatics Vol. 15, 2014: 120. R. Cao, Z. Wang, J. Cheng. "Designing and evaluating the MULTICOM protein local and global model quality prediction methods in the CASP10 experiment." BMC Structural Biology Vol. 14, 2014: 13. Z. Wang, R. Cao, K. Taylor, A. Briley, C. Caldwell, J. Cheng. "The Properties of Genome Conformation and Spatial Gene Interaction and