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Visiting Instructor | Master of Business Administration | pfawcett@plu.edu | 253-535-7402 | Overall I am hybrid academic/industry experienced professional with skills as an information scientist, Software Engineer, Entrepreneur, technology manager, and technologist who has worked in the technology sector for over 30+ years, mostly on Microsoft engineering teams and Microsoft Research (MSR).
Martin, Karen Matsumoto. "Teaching holistic environmental thought: A classroom approach." Thinking Skills and Creativity Vol. 46, December 2022: Kristiina A. Vogt, Alexa Schreier, Alishia Orloff, Michael E. Marchand, Daniel J. Vogt, Phil Fawcett, Samantha De Abreu, Turam Purty and Maia Murphy-Williams. "Building Environmental Literacy through Holistic Storytelling." Online Journal of Ecology and Environment Sciences Vol. 1, November 2021: 1-12. Karen E. Fisher, Ann Peterson Bishop, Lassana Magassa
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Like many students, Heven Ambachew ’24 wasn’t yet sure of her major when embarking on her PLU journey. Four years later, thanks to PLU’s individualized major pathway, she is the university’s first graduate with a major in innovation studies . Innovation Studies at PLU Courses…
starting new businesses. “I want to help them with branding, business strategy, and storytelling, which are essential for a business to thrive,” she says. Applying Innovation to the Everyday Ambachew wonders how Mexico’s women’s co-ops might succeed in Ethiopia, which she says has a culture similar to Mexico’s regarding gender roles. “I’d love to see more co-ops in Ethiopia, where women can benefit from having a platform to sell goods and bring in income.” As a career peer advisor at PLU, Ambachew
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Afternoon lectures (1-5pm) will take place in the Scandinavian Center; The evening keynote (7-8:30) will take place in the Chris Knutzen Hall, Anderson University Center.
daughters that center our multi-dimensional experiences of being Black Womxn in the United States.3:45 - 5 p.m. | “Get Me Bodied”: Beyoncè, Bodies, and Blackness Dr. Jennifer Smith, PLU Dean of Inclusive Excellence and Tolu Taiwo, PLU Center for Gender Equity Outreach and Prevention Coordinator DescriptionIn this session, Dr. Smith and Ms. Taiwo will argue that the visual texts and lyrics of Beyoncè Knowles-Carter–from Self-Titled to Lemonade to Everything is Love–construct progressively radical spaces
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The 2013-14 academic year has been full of celebrations of the printed arts. PLU’s Elliott Press celebrated its 30th anniversary; the Boge Library was established, with a collection of books on graphic design, typography and calligraphy; a one-day book arts symposium will grace PLU’s campus…
printer). The prints showcase the work of several area schools as well as artists and artist teams: PLU, School of Visual Concepts (Seattle), Stadium High School, Charles Wright Academy, Beautiful Angle, Ric Matthies, Chris Sharp, CLAW, Audra Laymon, Chandler O’Leary, Maggie Roberts and Carl Montford. PLU students flock to the Wayzgoose each year, many volunteering to help promote and staff the event. Elliott Press Assistant Taylor Cox ’16 designed and printed promotional posters this year. PLU
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Meet the Communications department’s most recent faculty member, Dr. Marnie Ritchie. Dr. Ritchie joined PLU in 2018 and has taught a variety of communications classes since then, from introductory communications to courses covering complex topics like gender and ethics. Dr. Ritchie’s other interests for her…
existential-ly, PLU is investing in new media, which is exciting as an educator. At PLU, students are able to be creative; they have the resources to make visual stories, designs, films, and podcast series, among other works. What is your favorite class to teach and why? This school year, I’m most excited about my “Communication, Race, and Surveillance” J-Term class. The class will use drones… Stay tuned… In your time here so far, what have you learned from your PLU students? My students have taught me
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The roots of the liberal arts (artes liberales) extend back into classical antiquity. Roman education, for example, progressed from basic literacy (the province of the litterator), to secondary
classical age. Scholars like Erasmus and Luther urged reform of the Church, felt to be moribund by confused traditions and corrupt practices. Indeed, the Lutheran Reformation drew upon significant cultural features of the Renaissance: Greek and Hebrew texts for translation of the Bible into the German vernacular, dissemination of theological arguments through printed tracts, depiction of reformed theology in visual art (Lucas Cranach), new musical genres (Johann Sebastian Bach), and architecture (Nickel
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Professor of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | edgartj@plu.edu | 253-535-7238 | Tom grew up in Colorado and attended college at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
. 25, 2017: 8-11 . Edgar, T . "The distribution of the number of parts of m-ary partitions modulo m." Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics Vol. 47, 2017: 1825-1838. Edgar, T. and Meyer, N.C. "A Visual Validation of Viète's Verification." The College Mathematics Journal Vol. 48, 2017: 90-96. Edgar, T., Domini, D., Johnson, D. "Digital representations of rows of Pascal’s triangle with no entries divisible by a fixed prime power." Pi Mu Epsilon Journal 2017: Edgar, T. and Sklar J.. "A Confused
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Art grants support PLU faculty PLU faculty members Holly Senn and Greg Youtz were among 80 Washington state artists to receive awards from the Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) program, funded by Artist Trust .The GAP program provides support for artist-generated projects, and is open…
record 975 artists applied for the awards. Both Senn, virtual reference services librarian, and Youtz, professor of music, received the maximum award of $1,500. A visual artist, Senn uses discarded library books to make sculptures and installations that explore the lifecycle of ideas. It’s an organic, non-linear process, she explains, where thoughts are born, disseminated, and then adopted or forgotten. She finds inspiration in the natural world, from the variety of books she finds and in her work as
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DMC grants appear in classrooms Interactive software, a Wii to use in graphic design and a video which will record future teachers at work – all these ideas received funding this year through the Digital Media Center Small Grants fund. Each year in May, Layne…
secondary classrooms J.P. Avila, Assistant Professor of Art: Avila will use $1,000 for a Nintendo Wii to construct a cost-effective digital whiteboard and interactive screen to promote visual communication through graphic design. Matthew Levy, Assistant Professor of English, Division of Humanities and Genevieve Williams, Assistant Professor of Library: They will use a “Turning Point” audience response technology to educate students about plagiarism. Their $1,000 will be used for software, a USB receiver
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From Microsoft to Martin Luther, and back again In 1994, Mike Halvorson was the first one to write a book about something nobody else cared about. The book? How to use a little-known software program called Microsoft Office. We can guess how that turned out.…
they only had two buildings. He was employee #850. “Why would a liberal arts degree matter?” he asked, musing on the days after his graduation. “It got me a job!” The job was at Microsoft Press, the software giant’s in-house book publishing division. He worked there until 1993 and then set off on his own. By 2000, he had authored more than 30 books on how to master various software programs, from Microsoft Office to Visual Basic. He’s sold more than a million copies. And then, as Halvorson
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