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  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | ziegleks@plu.edu | Kristen Ziegler-Horwath, MSN, ARNP, CNM, C-EFM is a practicing Certified Nurse-Midwife and has served in both rural and urban communities in Washington state since 2013. She is passionate about providing patient-centered and evidence-based care to all, while promoting individual preferences and a safe, healthy, and positive birth experience.

    , C-EFM is a practicing Certified Nurse-Midwife and has served in both rural and urban communities in Washington state since 2013. She is passionate about providing patient-centered and evidence-based care to all, while promoting individual preferences and a safe, healthy, and positive birth experience. In addition, she is an experienced surgical assistant in both obstetric and gynecologic surgery. Kristen is a PLU alum and is thrilled that her professional journey has brought her back to PLU, now

  • Professor of Music - French Horn | Horn Studio | gilliegc@plu.edu | 253-535-7607 | Dr.

    West at PLU and PLU’s Choral Union. She sings in recital settings whenever she gets the chance, and usually incorporates a vocal chamber piece into the horn recitals she presents. A lover of early music, she lectures and performs on natural horn as well as baroque horn. During her time in Madison she appeared in period performances with the Madison Bach Musicians playing repertoire including Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Dr. Gillie’s doctoral dissertation is entitled “Twentieth and Twenty-First Century

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  • Resident Assistant Professor | International Honors | christian.gerzso@plu.edu | 253-535-7491 | Christian Gerzso was born in Mexico City, where he received his B.A.

    of utopia and the State, from the early 20th century until today. He has examined the ways in which British literary writers theorized their intellectual labor at the turn of the 20th century, amid the consolidation of mass and commodity culture. In the context of post-revolutionary Mexico, his scholarship explores how the avant-garde group known as Estridentismo collaborated with State institutions, however briefly and with mixed results, in order to try to bring into being the utopian projects

  • Student Loans - Receivables Specialist | Office of Financial Services | sundbezj@plu.edu | 253-535-8361

    Zoe Smith Student Loans - Receivables Specialist Phone: 253-535-8361 Email: sundbezj@plu.edu Professional Responsibilities Federal Perkins, Nursing and Nurse Faculty Loan Programs Campus Based Loan Collections Campus Based Loan Entrance and Exits Primary back-up for Cashier Desk      

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  • Student Loans - Receivables Specialist | Office of Financial Services | sundbezj@plu.edu | 253-535-8361

    Zoe Smith Student Loans - Receivables Specialist Phone: 253-535-8361 Email: sundbezj@plu.edu Professional Responsibilities Federal Perkins, Nursing and Nurse Faculty Loan Programs Campus Based Loan Collections Campus Based Loan Entrance and Exits Primary back-up for Cashier Desk      

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  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | wolfercb@plu.edu | 253-535-8559 | For over thirty five years I have been a Registered Nurse and I have had a variety of nursing jobs caring for Adult Medical-Surgical patients.

    many different areas you can work.  My first interest was caring for orthopedic patients and now I am passionate about educating the next generation of nurses to use evidence based nursing care to provide holistic, safe and competent care to patients. Education BSN from Russell Sage College  MSN from University of North Carolina at Greensboro Teaching Areas: Clinical instructor for Adult Medical Surgical Nursing and Lab Instructor for Nursing Competencies Scholarly Interests: Psychomotor Skills

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  • Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | matyacca@plu.edu | 253-535-7694 | Dr.

    Core Classes Family Nurse Practitioner Core Classes Doctor of Nursing Practice Project Classes Scholarly Interests Chronic Pain Treatment Opioid Abuse School-Based Health Centers Community-Based Clinical Practicum Population Health Current Practice Population Health Family Nurse Practitioner Controlled Substances Steering Committee Chair Grants HRSA ANEW Grant Presentations 3/2021 PLU CCNL: Holistic Opioid Addiction Prevention Program 2/2021  PLU CCNL, Preceptor Workshop Series: Managing Workflow

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  • Chair of Earth Science | Earth Science | lechlear@plu.edu | 253-535-7744 | My research centers on mountain building processes and regional climate change and the associated influences of each on atmospheric dynamics.

    , Vancouver, BC (2014) 2014 Goldschmidt Conference, Clumped isotope paleothermometry in soil carbonate, Sacramento, CA (2014) 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, Paleoclimate of the last glacial maximum revealed by fossil groundwaters, San Francisco, CA (2013) 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, Improving stable isotope-based reconstructions of Sierra Nevada paleotopography using insights from regional air parcel trajectories, San Francisco, CA (2012) Selected Articles Lechler, A. R., Niemi, N. A., Hren, M. T., and Lohmann, K. C

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  • Professor Emeritus | Music | Born in 1956 in Beirut, Lebanon, Gregory Youtz received his B.M.

      If We Sell You Our Land based on the famous speech by Chief Seattle was the subject of a story on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition show in 1987 and his subsequent opera Songs from the Cedar House based on the history and legends of Indian and White cultural interaction in the Pacific Northwest premiered in February of 1991 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His other compositions include works for orchestra, band, choir, voice and chamber ensembles, and a one-act opera

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  • Assistant Professor of Education | School of Education | jwright@plu.edu | John Wright teaches special education methods courses, as well as courses in assistive technology, autism, and behavior management.

    Childhood Special Education Applied Behavior Analysis Selected Articles Wright, J., Barker, A., Himes, D., & Schaeffer, B. "Inclusive practices to teach preschoolers coding and robotics." Manuscript in preparation. 2023: Wright, J., Knight, V., & Barton, E. "A review of video-based modeling to teach STEM to students with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability." Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. 2020: doi:10.1016/j.rasd.2019.101476 . Wright, J., Knight, V., Barton, E., & Edwards-Bowyer