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. Bunting award, 2015, (open government reporting) Best of the West, 2013, first place (explanatory reporting) C.B. Blethen Award, 2011, second place (investigative reporting) Biography Award-winning investigative journalist and editor for The Tacoma News Tribune Interests Chess Shakespeare

Recognized by PLU Center for Gender Equity as a Woman with Vision / Inspirational Woman - March 2017 Recognized by PLU Women's Center as an Inspirational Woman - March 2016 Biography Barbara has been a PLU staff member since 2002, first working within the Student Life Office then joining the Counseling Center team in 2016.  She has held several membership positions on university committees, including the Parking Committee, PLU Staff Council, and the Campus Ministry Council.  Previous to PLU, Barbara

International Trumpet Guild Journal and American Music, and his trumpet warm-up book Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet is published by Keveli Music. Dr. Lyman is an S.E. Shires performing artist.

undergraduate program in the PLU Education Department since 2003. With expertise in the areas of curriculum and instruction, Dr. Weiss works closely with students in the field. She also collaborates with the Clover Park School district planning, facilitating and teaching their Mentor College and beginning teacher program. Dr. Weiss also works with teachers in a local alternative high school as a facilitator for a Positive Behavior Support grant from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Dr

Barrie Jean Borich Nonfiction Biography Biography Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Apocalypse, Darling (2018), which was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award.  PopMatters said “Apocalypse, Darling soars and seems to live as a new form altogether. It’s poetry, a meditation on life as ‘the other,’ creative nonfiction, and abstract art.”  Her memoir Body Geographic (2013) won a Lambda Literary Award in Memoir, and in a starred review Kirkus called the book “…an elegant literary map that

Connecticut District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, was a finalist in the Palm Beach Opera Competition, completed fellowships at the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and the Britten-Pears Programme in England, and is a graduate of the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program and the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin College. She is a passionate teacher and an active member of The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), where she serves on the board of

was nominated in 2011 and 2013 for the Earshot Golden Ear Award in the Emerging Artist category, and in 2014 and 2016, she was nominated for the Best NW Instrumentalist Category, and in 2016 her band KO Ensemble was also nominated as best NW Alternative Group. In 2020 the KO Ensemble won the Golden Ear Award for best NW Instrumental Group and in 2022, KO Electric was nominated for Best Alternative Group.

Presentation: Curiosity Questions poster presented (by Dr. Carolina Illie), SUNY Oswego (Fall 2012) Northwest Section American Physical Society, Co-author Conference Research Presentation: Research Intern, Matthew Hubbard presented “ How tongue size and roughness affect lapping, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (Fall 2012) 2012 National meeting of American Association of Physics Teachers, Scholarly Presentation: “ Pre-Course Student Questions as Motivators for Class Lessons, Philadelphia, PA (August 2012) Selected

on the spatial variability of modern meteoric d18O: empirical constraints from the western US and east Asia and implications for stable isotope studies." American Journal of Science no. 8 Vol. 311, 2011: p. 664-700. Lechler, A. R., and Niemi, N. A.. "Sedimentologic and isotopic constraints on the Paleogene paleogeography and paleotopography of the southern Sierra Nevada, California." Geology no. 4 Vol. 39, 2011: p. 379-382. Accolades Rackham Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

band and K-12 music) and Central Washington University in 2016 with a Master’s of Music in wind band conducting, where he studied with Lewis Norfleet and Mark Lane. Professor Vegh also teaches at Steilacoom High School. At SHS, he directs Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, and has taught AP Music Theory. His concert bands consistently receive Superior ratings at festivals, while percussion ensemble frequently performs at the WIAA/WMEA State Ensemble Contest, and has