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Edward Castro Lecturer - Trumpet Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: castroea@plu.edu Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.M.A., University of Washington Graduate Studies Music Pedagogy, University of Maryland M.M., Yale University B.M., The Manhattan School of Music Responsibilities Applied Trumpet Lessons Biography Dr. Edward Castro has made it his mission to educate and entertain through music. Born New York City, his formative music training started

, Collegiate Washington Music Educators Association (CWMEA) Member, Educational Policies Committee Chair, Department of Music Curriculum Committee Biography Linda Miller holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from New Mexico State University, a Master of Music and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Idaho.  Her teaching career includes all levels of music—kindergarten through graduate studies.  In addition, she has served as Director of Music for several church congregations.  As a published

Adoption”, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (March 27-30, 2014) Invited Panelist, 2012 Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Book Session: John E. Murray, 'A World of Children: The Charleston Orphan House,1790-1860” (University of Chicago Press, 2012), Vancouver, British Columbia (November 1-4, 2012) Invited Speaker, 2012 Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture’s Fourth International Conference on Adoption and Culture, "Mapping Adoption: Histories, Geographies

the University of Colorado Boulder and holds three Master’s degrees—in piano, harpsichord and theory pedagogy—and a graduate performance diploma in piano, all from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her undergraduate studies took place at the University of the Pacific, where she was the recipient of a prestigious Presser Award and earned her degree summa cum laude. Following her studies at UOP, Lark lived in France for three years where she attended the Conservatoire

Shelly Myers Lecturer - Oboe she/her Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: myerssd@plu.edu Biography Biography Shelly Myers currently serves as Lecturer of oboe at Pacific Lutheran University and holds the second oboe position in the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Lethbridge, and a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where she also pursued doctoral studies. Prior to moving to Seattle, she served

Bruce Kadden Senior Lecturer in Judaism Phone: 253-535-7243 Email: kaddenbj@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 220-J Professional Biography Education Rabbinic Ordination, Hebrew Union College, 1981 M.A., Hebrew Letters, Hebrew Union College, 1979 B.A., Religious Studies with Honors in Humanities, Stanford University, 1976 Books Teaching Mitzvot: Concepts, Values and Activities co-authored with Barbara Binder Kadden (A.R.E. Publishing, Inc. 2003) : View Book Teaching Jewish

Experience (Wipf & Stock Publishers 2006) : View Book Wrestling with God (Cascade Books 2006) : View Book The Sound of Liberating Truth Buddhist-Christian Dialogues in Honor of Frederick J. Streng - Co-edited with Sallie King (Wipf & Stock Publishers 2006) : View Book Constructing a Relational Cosmology - Edited by Paul O. Ingram (Pickwick Publications 2006) : View Book The Modern Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: Two Universalistic Religions in Transformation (Studies in Comparative Religion) (Edwin Mellen

the U. S. (with Laurence Geri) The New Face of Government Knowledge Management in the Public Sector: Blueprint for Innovation in Government. Public Utilities: Meeting 21st Century Management Challenges (1-2 editions) On research methods: Research Methods for Public Administration and Non-Profit Organizations (1-4 editions) Research Methods in Political Science: Quantitative & Qualitative Approaches (1-2 editions) Case Research in Public Administration Nonsampling Error in Social Surveys On

Svend Rønning Professor of Music - Violin; Coordinator of String Studies Phone: 253-535-7605 Email: svend.ronning@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 110 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Website: https://sites.google.com/a/plu.edu/svend-ronning/ Professional Biography Education D.M.A., Yale University, 1997 M.M.A., Yale University, 1993 M.M., Yale University, 1991 B.M. summa cum laude, Violin Performance, Pacific Lutheran University, 1989 Areas of

Renee Simms Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Renee Simms, J.D., MFA, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a John Gardner Fiction Fellowship at Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. She’s an associate professor of African American Studies at University of Puget Sound and teaches with the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran’s low-residency MFA program. Her debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword