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Want, 2009 PLU Regency Advancement Award, 2007 Biography Rick Barot has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; Want (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord (2015), which received the UNT Rilke Prize, the PEN Open Book Award, the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize.  He has received fellowships from

Renzhi Cao Associate Professor of Computer Science he/him/his Phone: 253-535-7409 Email: caora@plu.edu Office Location: Morken Center for Learning & Technology - 248 Website: https://cs.plu.edu/~caora/ Professional Biography Video Education Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2016 M.S., Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 2011 B.S., Computer Science, Anhui Normal University, 2008 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Machine learning Data science

study from the Pacific Northwest." Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research Vol. 15 (2), 2013: 29-46. Keller, J. "Confronting stereotypes: Children and families in public housing, in Yeakey, C. C." Living on the boundaries: Urban marginality in national and international contexts, Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd 2012: 291-312. Keller, J., Laakso, J., Stevens, C, & Tashiro, C. "The slippery slope of evaluation: Ethics, issues, & methodological challenges using the case study

Stephen Corey Editor in Residence, Poetry Biography Biography Stephen Corey is the author of four full-length collections of poetry, the latest being There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003), and six chapbooks.  His poems, essays, reviews, and articles have appeared in dozens of periodicals and anthologies, among them The American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, The Kenyon Review, Yellow Silk, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and The ‘Poetry’ Anthology

she studied with Octavio Más-Arocas and Katherine Kilburn. She received her MM in Orchestral Conducting from University of Massachusetts-Amherst under the mentorship of Morihiko Nakahara, and Kristo Kondakci. Ms. Mahyar obtained her BM degree in Choral Conducting from Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, Armenia with Hovhaness Mirzoyan where she continued further studies in Orchestral Conducting to learn more from Ruben Asatryan. Coming from Iran and being one of the very few female conductors

Rob Thompson Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation Phone: 253-535-7495 Email: thompsrw@plu.edu Biography Biography Robert Thompson arrived at Pacific Lutheran University in August of 2013 as the Coordinator of Recreation and was elevated to Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation prior to the 2017-2018 academic year. Under Thompson’s leadership, student participation in intramural programming has increased by 40 percent through innovative marketing to students and partnerships with

Holly Boaz Lecturer she/her Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: boazhm@plu.edu Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Website: http://www.hollyboaz.com/ Professional Biography Education M.M., Hartt School at the University of Hartford B.M., University of Wisconsin School of Music Accolades 2010 Winner, NATSAA Washington District and Northwest Region, National Semi-finalist 2007 Winner, Ladies Musical Club of Seattle Recital Award 2007 Finalist, Rimrock Opera Vocal Competition Professional

Bruce Kadden Senior Lecturer in Judaism Phone: 253-535-7243 Email: kaddenbj@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 220-J Professional Biography Education Rabbinic Ordination, Hebrew Union College, 1981 M.A., Hebrew Letters, Hebrew Union College, 1979 B.A., Religious Studies with Honors in Humanities, Stanford University, 1976 Books Teaching Mitzvot: Concepts, Values and Activities co-authored with Barbara Binder Kadden (A.R.E. Publishing, Inc. 2003) : View Book Teaching Jewish

& Recursive Data Structures Novice Debugging Diversity in CS Active & Cooperative Learning Selected Presentations Dale E. Benson Innovation Studies Workshop, Student-Centered Instruction in Computer Science Education, Pacific Lutheran University (October 2018) Invited Presenter, Pairs, Peers and Perceptions of Self: Putting Computer Science Education Research into Practice, Whitworth University (March 2016) PLUTO Online Institute, Developing Videos and Screencasts!, Pacific Lutheran University (January

Teresa Horm Visiting Assistant Professor she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-7081 Email: thorm@plu.edu Office Location: Rieke Science Center - 154 Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Education Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, 2013 B.S. , Biochemistry, University of Washington, 2005 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Molecular Biology Cellular Biology Microbiology Selected Articles Yimam M, Horm T, O’Neal A, Jiao P, Hong M, Jia Q. "UP360, a Standardized Composition from