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of America reconciliation Manages Curricular Development Grants, Wang Center Research Grants and special program accounts Manages all Wang Center Scholarship accounts Responsible for study away student billing processes, includes billing home institutions of visiting students Responsible for all study away student registration Processes study away transcripts and handles the Assignment of Credit process Maintains the Interactive Equivalency Guide for Gateway and Featured programs Management of

proxies preserved in sedimentary basins. As a teacher, I implement hands-on and field-based teaching strategies to engage students both inside and outside the classroom. I encourage students to be active learners who collaborate with classmates rather than compete, and I challenge them to apply the knowledge learned to their everyday lives so that they can be environmentally-conscious and scientifically-literate members of society.

 Guardian, Runner’s World, Literary Hub, Catapult, West Branch, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Boulevard, Joyland, Longreads, and many other publications. Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction and fiction. Statement: My primary goal as an educator is to help students develop artistic agency and encourage creative sustainability. Rather than fall back on craft axioms around what makes good writing, my teaching emphasizes individual decision-making, creative exploration, and radical revision, with

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

e s: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Vol. 19.1, 2008: 96-127. "Figuring the Dead Descartes: Claude Clerselier’s L’Homme de René Descartes (1664)." Representations Vol. 83, November, 2003: 38-66. Accolades Florence Howe Award in Foreign Languages, Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, for “Making Friends, Practicing Equality: The Correspondence of René Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia,” 2015 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Translation or Teaching Edition Award

recruiting, advising, accepting and orienting students as well as processing pre-departure paperwork and program evaluations Manages the Program Assistant Staff Development Program Supports the Peace Corps Prep Certificate Program Biography Courtney Olsen (she/her) is the Manager of Short-Term Programs at the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. While an undergraduate at PLU, she studied away in London through GEO and on a PLU J-Term program in Austria, the Czech Republic, and Germany

Systems Undergraduate Education History of Mathematics and Science Selected Presentations Eleventh Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics: ICTCM-11, This conference covers all aspects of using technology in teaching college mathematics. I presented my paper,The Magic Calculator and The Sine Addition Formula (1998) Selected Articles "Delving Deeper: Chordic vs. CORDIC: How Calculators and Students Compute Sines and Cosines." Mathematics Teacher Vol. 106, issue 6, 2013

Marjorie Sandor Fiction, Nonfiction Website: http://marjoriesandor.com/ Biography Biography 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. Earlier books include the linked story collection Portrait of my Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime, winner of the 2004 National Jewish Book Award in Fiction, and two books of personal essays

Prayer; and Teaching Jewish Life Cycle: Traditions and Activities. He has written articles for the website interfaithfamily.com, including, “Whose Wedding is it Anyway?” “Interfaith and Interfaithless Marriages”; “Why January 1 is Special: Even Jesus was Circumcised on the Eighth Day”; “What Jews and Christians Should Know About Each Other: An Important Primer on the Two Religions”; and “A Christian’s Guide to Passover.”

or Expertise Introductory Statistics Statistical Computing Selected Presentations Cascadia R Conference, Teaching Non-STEM Students to Code (June 2021) Professional Memberships/Organizations American Statistical Association , (2020 - Present)