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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 Fortress (now 1517 Media); served on the Board of Directors of Lutheran Summer Music, the

– Environmental Literature, English Renaissance Literature, American Environmental Writing, etc.  He was the founding director of the Writing Center and directed the First-Year Experience Program of the core curriculum.  In 2004-2006, at a particularly delicate period of core curriculum revision, he served as Chair of the University Faculty. We await Dr. Bergman’s next book (provisional title:  Parrot, Speak) to marvel once more at the fertile imagination, empathy, and finesse he brings to discerning what’s

with special needs,” Davidson stressed. “It’s seeing them as a population with special skills.” Francisco Aragón ’19 — a Mexican-American who took Davidson’s heritage speakers class his first year at PLU — appreciated that intentional approach. “She doesn’t use Spanish to correct how you talk, but rather explains why you talk the way you do,” Aragón said, noting that it was counter to his experience taking some Spanish classes in high school. “The goal is to empower students by establishing a

championship teams in volleyball and softball, collecting school records and accolades along the way. She was a NAIA second-team All-American in 1998, and PLU’s 2000 Athlete of the Year. Of all her accomplishments, Flores-Handley is proudest of graduating in four years, as a two-sport athlete. “I’m not very good about talking about myself,” she admits, but she’s eager to credit her coaches — Kevin Aoki and Tim Templin for volleyball, and Rick and Leanne Noren and Phil Scott for softball. “They taught me

accepted for publication in The American Journal of Family Therapy. Ward’s original research was published in 2010. He said one fundamental role of a therapist is to build hope, or a client’s belief and feeling that a goal is attainable. The key is moving the client from a place of despair to a place of hope through sustained therapy sessions, he said. Read More About Ward's ResearchMFA New Writer In-ResidenceRigoberto González joined the MFA program in 2017 as an inaugural Stan Rubin Distinguished

: The novels Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal address female duties through characters living in restrictive marital structures and how they work to fight against societal norms to protect and gain their agency. Soniah Kamal’s Lady and Alys Binat are retellings of Lydia and Elizabeth Bennett that show us how Austen’s concerns in the 19th century are still alive and well in 21st-century Pakistani American culture. I examine the behavior of Lady and Alys around