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and Another Element." American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 116, No. 5, 2009. Refereed. D. Heath, T. Hodgson and D. Schultz. "Applets, Functions, and a Dynamic Understanding of Calculus." ON-Math Online Journal of School Mathematics Vol. 4, No. 1, 2006. Refereed. Accolades Winner of the MAA's 2015 Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for Expository Excellence for Straightedge and Compass Constructions in Spherical Geometry Certificate of Gratitude for extraordinary volunteer service, from the Graham Kapowsin

was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. Her poetry has recently appeared in POETRY London, The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review and other journals. Jennifer currently teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop, the Institute of  American Indian Arts Continuing Education Program, and is the Literary Assistant to the U.S. Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. She Foerster grew up living internationally, is of European (German/Dutch) and Mvskoke descent, and is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of

, Jupiter in Orpheus in the Underworld, and the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance. On the concert stage, Mr. Johnson has been a soloist with orchestras throughout the Northwest including Seattle Symphony, American Sinfonietta, Symphony Tacoma, Yakima Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, Orchestra Seattle, and the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony.  Concert engagements have included Orff’s Carmina Burana,  Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’  Ein Deutsches Requiem, Rachmaninoff’s The Bells, Haydn’s Creation

, 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

 Washington State Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society, an annual guest speaker for the University of Washington Percussion Lab, and a co-founder of Smile for Japan, a Seattle- based fundraising event for the victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. She was also a contributing performer to a fundraising CD to aid victims of the Oso (Washington) Mud Slide. She has worked to foster cultural exchange between Japanese and American youth groups, leading or coordinating tours by the University of

of Eliza Cook’s Songs of Labor." Victorian Poetry Vol. 39.2, 2001: "'Amazed at Our Success': The Langham Place Editors and the Emergence of a Feminist Critical Tradition." Victorian Periodicals Review Vol. 29.2, 1996: "Editing Belgravia: M.E. Braddon’s Defense of 'Light Literature'." Victorian Periodicals Review Vol. 28.2, 1995: Accolades Regency Advancement Award, 2006 Wang Center International Travel Grant, 2004 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, 1998–99 Mellon

, Pathways to Culturally Sustaining STEM Teaching with Drs. Simic-Muller and Munro. In this grant they recruit, prepare, and support new teachers’ implementation of ambitious and equitable STEM teaching in Title 1 schools. Dr. Gardiner is also an active member in the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the Literacy Research Association (LRA), and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

practitioners who dedicate their careers to improving people’s lives every day. I’m grateful for the opportunity to support the next generation of social workers, in and out of the classroom, and to be engaged in the community I’ve always called home. I also care deeply about my field of research. My dissertation used a survey experiment with a representative sample of the American electorate to learn how an inclusive messaging strategy centered on unity and fairness may influence eligible voters’ attitudes

History at PLU, as well as classes on innovation and the history of technology. His most recent books are This Little World: A How-to Guide for Social Innovators (2024), co-authored with Shelly Cano Kurtz, and Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America (2020). Both projects offer a “behind-the-scenes” look at digital transformation in American society and its potential for positive social change. Prof. Halvorson is also interested in oral history and its use in

session “The Power of Two” focused on collaborative rehearsal techniques to develop between conductor and pianist. Presented at the 2024 Northwest American Choral Directors Association regional convention, she received rave reviews and requests for repeated presentations. As a church musician, she has been a long-time voice in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. She has been contributing editor for both the keyboard and choral divisions of the Sundays and Seasons resource published by Augsburg