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Accolades Teaching Excellence Award, PLU Center for Teaching and Learning, 2002 Graves Award in the Humanities, 2000

 Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.  Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “As a writer, I am endlessly surprised and fascinated by the possibilities offered by narrative and by language; as a teacher, I try to get students excited about those possibilities by sharing my discoveries and

American String Teachers Association, WA Chapter and the Washington State Music Educators Association “Friend of Music” award. As a conductor, Dr. Jensen is a frequent clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor for contests and workshops across the region, including All-State orchestras. She conducts the Tacoma String Philharmonic at the Tacoma Youth Symphony Association and is the Director of Orchestras at the Annie Wright Schools. Dr. Jensen is the assistant principal bassist of Symphony Tacoma, the

and Expo, Intensity Levels in Children Ages 7-10 While Traverse Climbing with C. Darling, K.E. Mathias, and J. DePaepe, Charlotte, NC (2013) American College of Sports Medicine National Meeting, Perceptions of the built environment in two micropolitan communities of different population densities with T.R. Quilter, V.M. Nethery, M. Riggs, San Francisco, CA (2012) American College of Sports Medicine National Meeting, Differences in neighborhood characteristics and physical activity between older

Sapience Dance Collective from 2008-2016. Her work has been seen at On The Boards and Meany Hall and she has performed in the work of Pat Graney, Marlo Martin, and Wade Madsen among others. She is also a reviewer of jazz dance submissions for Young Arts. Seder earned her BA in Dance and Psychology from Bard College and her MFA in Dance from Smith College.

environment Selected Presentations Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, A Passion for Pedagogy, University of Oregon (February 22, 2018) Biology Department Seminar, Adventures in signaling: Plants, phosphate, phenylpropanoids, phosphatases, and phenolics, Pacific Lutheran University (2015) Accolades PLU Women’s Center. (r)Evolution!: Celebration of Inspirational Women, 2016 Best Undergraduate Research Paper in Cell and Molecular Biology awarded to Raelynn Endicott (undergraduate student) and M.J

Fran Lane Rasmus Emeritus Director of the Library Office Location:Mortvedt Library Employed: 24 Years Professional Personal Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor Education M.L.I.S., Library and Information Science, Dominican University (River Forest, IL) B.A., International Studies and Law & Society, Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) Responsibilities Provide leadership for four areas (Circulation/Building Services, Reference Services, Technical Services, and the University Archives

United States, Canada, Spain, France, and Austria, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Mexico and the U.S. A finalist and prize winner in several competitions in his home country, he has also held grants and scholarships from different cultural and government institutions. Ricardo won second prize at the Eleventh Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America, sponsored by Indiana University’s Latin American Music Center and the Office of Education of the

Presentations American Mathematical Society’s Spring Western Sectional Meeting , Sign and Ray Patterns that Allow K-potence, Pullman, WA (April, 2017) 16th ILAS Meeting, Graphs, patterns and powers – from nonnegative matrices to nonpowerful ray patterns, Minisymposium on Nonnegative Matrices, Pisa, Italy (June, 2010) MAA Pacific Northwest Section Meeting, Inverses for matrices that do not have inverses, Session on Pedagogical Gems, Seattle, WA (April, 2010) Joint Math Meeting, Inverses for matrices that do

Anna Leon-Guerrero Professor of Sociology Email: guerreay@plu.edu Status:Phased Retirement Professional Education Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993 M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988 B.A., Communications and Sociology, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, 1983 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Organizational Behavior Quantitative Data Analysis Books Social Statistics for a Diverse Society co-authored with Chava Frankfort-Nachmias - 8th