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Professor of Music - Trumpet; Coordinator of Wind, Brass, and Percussion Studies | Music | lymanzt@plu.edu | 253-535-7612 | Zachary Lyman is Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), where he teaches trumpet, music theory, directs the trumpet ensemble, coaches chamber music, and performs with the Lyric Brass Quintet.
as Director of the Tacoma Young Chamber Players, the Puget Sound’s premier chamber music experience for high school musicians. Dr. Lyman’s articles have been published by American Music and the International Trumpet Guild Journal. His trumpet warm-up book Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet is published by Keveli Music. The Lyric Brass Quintet’s CD, American Music for Brass Quintet, is available from Emeritus Recordings. A second album, featuring the world-premiere recording of Luther: Seven
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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.
with metaphors and figures of feeling and thought, mysteries and politics, birth and death, and all the occasions we experience between womb and tomb. Poetic utterance ritualizes how we come to knowledge. Poetic form ceremonializes those rituals. In the same way that poems illuminate our individual lives, poems also help us understand ourselves as a culture. Or at least they spur us to ask the questions. Poetic utterance mythologizes our journey of being. Poetic utterance tells and interprets our
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Professor of History, Emeritus | Department of History | sobania@plu.edu | Dr.
that resulted in PLU being a recipient of the Sen. Paul Simon Award for Internationalizing the Campus from NAFSA: Association of International Educators 2006 Recipient of the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) Biography Dr. Sobania, Professor of History Emeritus, retired from PLU in 2016. Neal Sobania has extensive experience in living, working, and conducting research in Africa that began as a freshly minted college graduate with his
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Resident Assistant Professor | International Honors | christian.gerzso@plu.edu | 253-535-7491 | Christian Gerzso was born in Mexico City, where he received his B.A.
; multidisciplinary humanities; theories and representations of labor; literature and imperialism; literary and visual modernisms and avant-gardes, and literary and critical theory. He teaches in the International Honors Program and the First-Year Experience Program. His IHON 112 course, a first-year seminar for the International Honors program, traces the emergence of the world-system brought about by European colonization after 1492 in literary, artistic, philosophical, and political texts written by European
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Professor Emeritus of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | dollinmb@plu.edu | Current position Pacific Lutheran University 1981 – 1998. Emeritus Professor, Department of Mathematics, 1998 – present. Chair, Department of Mathematics, 1992 – 1994. Publications Commentary on ‘Misunderstandings about Q and ‘Cochran’s Q test’ in meta-analysis’, Statistics in Medicine, 2015, 35(4):501-502 · February 20, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/sim.6758 (with E.
-1066. Some Aspects of Spectral Theory on Banach Spaces, Ph.D. dissertation, U. of Illinois, 1968. Predicting effectiveness of Bayesian classification systems, Psychometrika31 (1966) p.341-349 (with L.M. Herman). Other Academic Experience Previous positions University of Washington 9/79 – 6/81 Louisiana State University 9/68 – 6/73 Visiting positions University of Hertfordshire, UK 8/02 – 9-02 La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 10/95 – 12/97 University in Agder, Kristiansand, Norway 7/94 – 8
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Professor Emeritus | Earth Science | benhamsr@plu.edu | Dr.
over 20 years, helping a whole generation of high school students transition to the college experience, and learn some oceanography along the way! Steve spent many hours working with very closely with students outside of class time. No one has escaped his upper division classes without learning to make thin sections in the rock lab and he was always there to help them learn to operate the equipment and develop the fine touch necessary to produce a perfect section. His passion is fossils and he
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Assistant Professor | School of Nursing | mcfaddsm@plu.edu | 253-535-7510 | Dr.
data, San Diego, CA (April 2019) Biography Dr. McFadden is a registered nurse with experience in both public health and pediatrics. She is passionate about vaccination and has spent the last 5 years researching vaccine acceptance and policy as well as COVID-19. She is a PLU alum and is excited to work with PLU students, sharing her experiences as both a nurse and a researcher. Scholarly Interests Vaccine Acceptance, Vaccine Policy, Public Health, COVID-19, Health Equity
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Professor of Kinesiology | Department of Kinesiology | hackercm@plu.edu | 253-535-7363 | Dr.
, professional sport teams, civic organizations and both print and television media. With more than 30 years experience in higher education, she is currently a Professor in Kinesiology at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Dr. Hacker has conducted extensive, applied research in the field of sport psychology with particular emphasis on peak performance, team building, leadership, mental toughness and psychological skills training for excellence. Dr. Hacker received her Bachelor of Science
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