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Zachary Lyman Professor of Music - Trumpet; Coordinator of Wind, Brass, and Percussion Studies Phone: 253-535-7612 Email: lymanzt@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 113 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Website: https://www.plu.edu/trumpet Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Director of the PLU Trumpet Ensemble Music Theory and Analysis II and III Education D.M.A., Trumpet Performance and Pedagogy, The University of Iowa, 2007 M.M. with

Book Victorian Literature Books The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture (Broadview Press 2014) : View Book A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (Broadview Press 2003) : View Book Selected Articles "The Victorian Novel and the Reviews." The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel 2013: "Victoria Woodhull-Martin and The Humanitarian (1892–1901): Feminism and Eugenics at the Fin de Siècle." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Vol. 6.2, 2010: "'Sir, It is an

as a faculty member. Her courses focus on the importance of nursing theory and research as essential components to influencing nursing practice, ultimately resulting in improved patient outcomes through the promotion of evidence-based, competent nursing care. In addition to teaching at PLU, Kristen is also an instructor through the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and teaches fetal monitoring courses to nurses and obstetric providers.

Norris Peterson Professor of Economics Email: petersna@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Biography Education Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1983 B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, 1975 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Teaching Areas: Labor Economics, Mathematical Economics, Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory Research Interests: Economic education, income distribution, forensic economics Biography Following his B.A. degree with honors in Economics and Mathematics from PLU in 1975, Norris

, Madison, 1986 M.A., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981 B.S., Physics and Mathematics, Pomona College, 1980 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Combinatorial Matrix Theory Graph Theory Optimization and Finance Selected Presentations American Mathematical Society’s Spring Western Sectional Meeting , Sign and Ray Patterns that Allow K-potence, Pullman, WA (April, 2017) 16th ILAS Meeting, Graphs, patterns and powers – from nonnegative matrices to nonpowerful ray patterns, Minisymposium on

Philosophy Psychoanalysis Phenomenology Feminist Philosophy Postcolonial Theory Critical Theory South Asian literature and Diaspora

Shumenghui Zhai, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Nursing Phone: 253-535-7649 Email: szhai@plu.edu Professional Education PhD, Nursing Science , University of Washington MPH, Community and Behavioral Health Science, University of Pittsburgh BSN, Nursing Science , Nanjing Medical University Selected Publications Analysis, evaluation, and reformulation of social cognitive theory: Toward parent-child shared management in sleep health A Comparative Trial of Improving Care for Underserved Asian

University of Colorado Boulder and holds three Master’s degrees—in piano, harpsichord and theory pedagogy—and a graduate performance diploma in piano, all from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her undergraduate studies took place at the University of the Pacific, where she was the recipient of a prestigious Presser Award and earned her degree summa cum laude. Following her studies at UOP, Lark lived in France for three years where she attended the Conservatoire National de

Presentations Pacific Northwest Mathematics Association of America meeting, Straightedge and Compass Constructions in Spherical Geometry (April 11, 2015) MathFest, Euclidean & non-Euclidean Origametry (August 7, 2014) Guest lecture, The Mathematics of Kirigami, University of Washington, Tacoma (May 21, 2013) Joint Mathematics Meetings, Geometry Playground v. 1.4 (January 9, 2013) PLU Mathematics Seminar, In a Bind about Knot Theory, Pacific Lutheran University (October 22, 2010) Selected Articles

Education Ph.D., Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008 M.A., Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006 B.S. Magna Cum Laude, Physics, The Ohio State University, 2003 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Cosmology Particle Physics String Theory Selected Presentations University of Vienna, Cosmological Chaos, Complexity, and the OTOC, Vienna, Austria (October 2020) de-Sitter Constructions in String Theory Workshop, Constraints on dS from Higher Dimensions, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA