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Microbiology: A Human Perspective, scheduled to be published by McGraw-Hill in 2024. Outside of the classroom, Dr. Auman has long been an active member of the PLU faculty. She has served in many roles and has held several leadership positions in PLU’s faculty governance system. She has additionally served as Chair of the Biology Department and as Site Director for PLU’s Gateway Program in Namibia. In 2017, Dr. Auman accepted the position of Dean of the Division of Natural Sciences where she oversees six

and cedar." Lone star rhetoric. Eds. Casey Boyle & Jenny Rice. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press 2018: Accolades Rhetorical & Communication Theory Division Award in Mentorship, Nominee, 2021 Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, Nominee, 2021 Wang Center Course Development Grant, 2017 Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, 2016 Top Paper, National Communication Association, Communication & the Law Division 2013 Granted Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor, January

Symphony Orchestra), and the North American premiere of the Nordic Light Symphony by Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds (2017). On both of these occasions the composers were present for the premieres. Choir of the West has produced several published recordings through PLU multimedia recordings, and in April of 2018 recorded a disc of unaccompanied works by Ešenvalds entitled There Will Come Soft Rains, which was released worldwide on the Signum Classics label in January of 2020. Ešenvalds and producer