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Institute for Particle Physics (IPP) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2011 McGill Lorne Trottier Fellowship, 2008-2010 Lesson Study Curriculum Development Grant, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 2007 “Exceptional Service” TA award (Campus-wide) at UW-Madison, 2007 Biography I am currently a Professor of Physics at Pacific Lutheran University. My research interests are in the intersection of high energy physics and cosmology. From 2008-2011 I was a postdoctoral researcher in Theoretical High Energy
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World History”. She also teaches in the First Year Experience Program, including Writing 101, focusing on Global Human Rights, and two History 190 courses, World History, and Modern Latin American History. She participates in the Residence Hall Learning Communities program, linking Writing 101 to Hong International Hall, and she piloted a program linking Writing 101 courses to 190 courses. She has taught study abroad courses for many years in Bolivia and Peru, and Cuba. She also teaches courses on
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, including The Night Gardener: A Search for Home, which won a 2000 Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Agni, The Georgia Review, and other literary journals, and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize. She is also the editor of The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows, an international anthology of short fiction from St. Martins Press (2015). She has been a member of the RWW faculty since its founding
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, invitation only, student-faculty research and applied internship program for highly motivated students. MediaLab students are engaged in activities that include public relations, advertising, documentary filmmaking, journalism, marketing and research, graphic design, photography and much more. Under Dr. Wells’ direction, MediaLab has earned national and international recognitions, including two National Broadcasting Society Awards, three Broadcast Education Awards, three college division Emmy Award
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new mentors." International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education 2018: 329-342. Gardiner, W. "Mentoring “inside” and “outside” the action of teaching: A professional framework for mentoring." The New Educator 2017: 53-71. Accolades PLU Faculty Excellence in Research Award, 2023 CoPI on National Science Foundation (NSF), Robert Noyce Track 1 Award, 2020-2025: $1,192,573; Title: Pathways to Culturally Sustaining STEM Teaching CoPI on National Science Foundation (NSF), Robert Noyce Capacity
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and Lithography for Carbon Nanotube Based Nondestructive Evaluation Sensor Development, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (2002) Materials Research Society, Nanocontact Measurements of Electron Spin Filtering and Spin Transport, San Francisco, CA (1999) PLU Physics Department Seminar, Atomic Force Microscopy, Carbon Nanotubes, and the Imaging of Protein Binding Sites in DNA, Tacoma, WA (1998) Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, Nanocontact Measurements of Electron Spin Filtering and Spin Transport, San
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session; co-presented with Harris, N. R., & Plascencia Saldana, B.], Las Vegas, NV ((2022, November)) Imagine Otherwise Professional Development Seminar, Cultivating critical creativity [Seminar session], Tacoma, WA ((2022, June/July; 2021, April)) NASPA Western Regional Conference, Imagine otherwise: Advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education through critical creativity [Conference session; co-presented with Hambrick, A.], San Francisco, CA ((2021, November)) NASPA Western Regional
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international music production for Walt Disney Records. From 2003 to 2008, I taught at PLU as a Visiting Lecturer of Spanish, an experience which solidified my decision to pursue doctoral studies in Latin American literary and cultural studies. My research examines how Panamanians construct national and racial identities through and against their national symbol and patrimony: the Panama Canal. I also am interested in how the 1989 US Invasion of Panama is included/excluded from canal history, and more
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and Combinatorics, Dickinson College (October 2013) International Linear Algebra Society - 2013 Meeting, Flipping the Technology in Linear Algebra, Providence, Rhode Island (June 2013) Teaching Seminar, Picking up the SLAC: Life at a small liberal arts college, University of Notre Dame (April 2013) Selected Articles Bland, A., Cramer, Z., de Castro, P., Domini, D., Edgar, T., Johnson, D., Klee, S., Koblitz, J., Sundaresan, R. "Happiness Is Integral But Not Rational." Math Horizons Vol. 25, 2017: 8
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, Maria I. Dragila; International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling Vol. 5, 2008: Accolades 2019-2020 Faculty Excellence Award in Advising, PLU 2018 "Inspirational Woman" - PLU Center for Gender Equity Outstanding Student Paper at conference in Hydrology section for presentation: “Physics of two-phase flow on rough surfaces” at American Geophysical Union Conference 2006, San Francisco Certificate of Appreciation for JPL internship and presentation awarded by the Oregon Space Consortium (2005
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