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Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History | Department of History | halvormj@plu.edu | 253-535-8258 | Michael Halvorson teaches business and economic history courses in the Department of History at PLU, as well as classes on innovation and the history of technology.
, 1985 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Business and Economic History Innovation / Public interest technology History of Computing (Personal Computers) Software Development / Windows Programming Early Modern Europe / Reformation Germany / Lutheranism Tudor England (study abroad) Books Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society, edited by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick. (Chapter 9- "The Help Desk: Changing Images of Product Support in Personal Computing, 1975–1990," Johns
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Fiction, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Marjorie Sandor is the author of five books of fiction and creative nonfiction, most recently a debut novel, The Secret Music at Tordesillas, which won the 2020 Foreword Indies Gold Medal for Historical Fiction.
, 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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Chair of Physics | Department of Physics | bret.underwood@plu.edu | 253-535-7267 | I am currently a Professor of Physics at Pacific Lutheran University.
." Journal of High Energy Physics Vol. 139, 2016: B. Underwood and Y. Zhai. "Moving Phones Tick Slower: Creating an Android App to Demonstrate Time Dilation." The Physics Teacher Vol. 54, 2016: 277. Accolades 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
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Associate Professor of History | Department of History | hamesgl@plu.edu | 253-535-7132 | Gina Hames’ research interests focus on the historic role of how alcohol shapes identity from a comparative perspective across the globe, including Africa, Asia, including China, Japan, and India, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States.
Global Studies Program, “Modern 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
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Professor Emeritus | Communication, Media & Design Arts | Writer.
, 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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Associate Professor | School of Education | gardinwl@plu.edu | 253-535-8342 | Wendy Gardiner teaches literacy courses in the Education Department.
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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Professor of Physics | Department of Physics | louie@plu.edu | 253-535-7653 | My research interests are plasma etching issues, carbon nanotubes and scanning probe microscopy.
, Nanomanipulation 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
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Assistant Vice President for Student Life Strategic Initiatives and Assessment | Division of Student Life | jes.takla@plu.edu | 253-535-7597
; 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 Conference
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Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | davidsef@plu.edu | 253-535-7311 | If I had to describe my identity with a Facebook relationship status it would read: “It’s complicated”.
experiences and family histories. I returned to PLU after completing my Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of California, Davis in 2013. As a Washingtonian and former Lute, I am thrilled to be “home” again. I received my B.A. in Spanish and Political Science at PLU in 1998, and then moved to Vermont and Spain, to pursue my M.A. in Spanish at Middlebury College in 2000. I lived in Madrid for five years, where I worked in international music production for Walt Disney Records. From 2003 to 2008, I taught at
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Professor of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | edgartj@plu.edu | 253-535-7238 | Tom grew up in Colorado and attended college at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Number Theory 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
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