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Maria Theresa Carrington, MSW, LICSW, CST Visiting Instructor and Director, MSW & BSW Practicum Programs she/her/hers I love teaching PLU students because it gives me the unique opportunity to witness the next generation of social workers. I am deeply enthusiastic about nurturing their compassion, fostering critical thinking, and equipping them with the tools to create positive, meaningful change. Phone: 253-535-7859 Email: carrington@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 110 Office Hours: (On

protein structural and contact information with machine learning techniques." Bioinformatics 2016: 694. R. Cao, D. Bhattacharya, J. Hou, J. Cheng. "DeepQA: improving the estimation of single protein model quality with deep belief networks." BMC bioinformatics Vol. 17.1, 2016: 495. D. Bhattacharya, R. Cao, J. Cheng. "UniCon3D: de novo protein structure prediction using united-residue conformational search via stepwise, probabilistic sampling." Bioinformatics 2016: D. Bhattacharya, J. Nowotny, R. Cao, J

., Romance Linguistics, University of Washington, 1994 B.A., Spanish, Western Washington University, 1991 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Romance Linguistics Technology for Language Learning Linguistic Minorities Teacher Preparation Books Chapter in Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Education: Designing Networks That Transform Schools Chapters Leveraging Networks to Promote Organizational Learning through Professional Development (Harvard Education Press 2019) : View Book Chapter in L2 Grammatical

of Resilience (2021) Selected Articles Phipps, E. B. and Montgomery, F.. "“Only YOU Can Prevent This Nightmare, America”: Nancy Pelosi as the Monstrous-Feminine in Donald Trump’s YouTube Attacks.”." Women's Studies in Communication Vol. 45(3), 2022: 316-337. Phipps, E.B.. "Victoria C. Woodhull, “‘And the Truth Shall Make You Free,’ A Speech on the Principles of Social Freedom.”." Voices of Democracy Vol. 15(1), 2020: 1-18. Accolades Top Paper, National Communication Association, Game Studies

Autonomous Robots Jan 2019: Caley, Jeffrey A., Lawrance, Nicholas R.J., and Geoffrey A. Hollinger. "Deep Networks with Confidence Bounds for Robotic Information Gathering." Proc. Robotics: Science and Systems Conf. Workshop on New Frontiers for Deep Learning in Robotics July 2017: Caley, Jeffrey A., Lawrance, Nicholas R.J., and Geoffrey A. Hollinger. "Deep Learning of Structured Environments for Robot Search." Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2016: Caley, Jeffrey A., and

active reviewer at the Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation, and Information-Wireless Networks-Springer; at the Journal of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; and is an editorial assistant at the PICMET. His interpersonal skills have helped him to gain many awards and honors such as Academic Excellence Aware, Student Activities and Leadership Programs PSU 2019, Outstanding International Student Recognition Award PSU 2019, People’s Choice Awards in Ph.D. Form ETM Poster 2019, and

the Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation, and Information-Wireless Networks-Springer; at the Journal of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; and is an editorial assistant at the PICMET. His interpersonal skills have helped him to gain many awards and honors such as Academic Excellence Aware, Student Activities and Leadership Programs PSU 2019, Outstanding International Student Recognition Award PSU 2019, People’s Choice Awards in Ph.D. Form ETM Poster 2019, and People’s Choice

Ron Byrnes Associate Professor of Education Phone: 253-535-7286 Email: byrnesrs@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building Professional Biography Education Ph.D., University of Denver, 1993 M.Ed., University of California, Los Angeles, 1985 B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1984 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise High School Education Reform Cultural Globalization Social Studies Curriculum Development Biography Ron was a high school social studies teacher in Los Angeles and

literary community outside of a classroom setting and how the work of good literary citizenship can enliven and inspire your own projects through new reading experiences, networks and friendships, and the simple truth that good writing, while worthwhile, is an incredibly hard undertaking that exists in concert with the realities of our everyday life. If you’re putting in the work, you’re a writer.

Alicia Thompson, MSN, RN, CNL Clinical Instructor of Nursing Email: athompson@plu.edu Professional Biography Education MSN, Nursing, Pacific Lutheran University Bachelors, Social Work, Pacific Lutheran University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Cardiology, Critical Care, Corrections Currently teaching NURS401 Care of Complex Conditions Biography Alicia grew up in the state of Maine and moved to Tacoma to attend Pacific Lutheran University, earning a bachelor’s degree in Social Work. Alicia then