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any writing workshop, my goal is to help participants figure out how to engage in a practice, and how to live like writers in a daily and sustaining way. The bracing thrill of sensing a real, live temperament / disposition / sensibility on the page is what I long for (and fall for!) as a reader, and so, as a mentor, I look forward to finding those moments in my students’ work, studying them, marveling at them—and then, working to refine or reposition the whole, in whatever way the poem or essay

as a clinical adjunct faculty member many times in the past. I really enjoy seeing the students learn, grow, and bloom into amazing nurses! I obtained my Associates degree in nursing from Yakima Valley Community College, My BSN from Seattle Pacific University, and my MSN from West Texas A&M University. In my free time I hike, watch my daughter play sports, and travel. In the past few years I have started volunteering with Operation Smile – I have gone on 2 medical missions so far; one to Brazil

and teaches during the summer at The Evergreen Music Festival and The Hammond Ashley Bass Workshop. Her double bass students have placed in the top three at the state level numerous times and frequently win concerto competitions across the region. Dr. Jensen has also taught at Central Washington University, Bowling Green State University, and was a graduate student instructor at the University of Michigan. In recent years, Dr. Jensen was awarded the Outstanding Master Studio Teacher Award from the

Society American Association of Physics Teachers Materials Research Society Biography My research interests are plasma etching issues, carbon nanotubes and scanning probe microscopy. I have published papers from postdoctoral work at NASA Langley and the University of Washington. I was also the lead faculty consultant (physics) with an educational software company, Kinetic Books/Perfection Learning. My previous research includes the following projects: NASA Langley Research Center: detection of buried

of Physics at Pacific Lutheran University. My research interests are in the intersection of high energy physics and cosmology. From 2008-2011 I was a postdoctoral researcher in Theoretical High Energy Physics and Cosmology at McGill University. While there, I was a McGill Lorne Trottier and Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) Postdoctoral Fellow. I obtained my Bachelor of Science in Physics at The Ohio State University in 2003, completing a senior research project entitled “Renormalization of the

, no.4, 2009: 747-8. Biography I am a proud native of Tacoma and first generation college student that began my formal second language study in high school. My grandparents were native speakers of Gaelic who immigrated to Tacoma, so my love of languages and cultures started early. I stayed local for college, earning my BA in Spanish from WWU and my MA and PhD in Romance linguistics from the UW. I was fortunate to be able to study away in many locations over the years, including Spain, Guatemala

field work with Hawaiian petroglyphs. * Author of several books (with translations and editions in over 15 languages) including an archaeological memoir, Beneath the Sands of Egypt, a travel guide to pharaonic Egypt (Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day), and volumes describing daily life (e.g., 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt and A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt. Author of dozens of popular and scientific articles. * Presenter of scholarly papers at many US and international conferences and presenter of

Conservatorium of Music, Hobart, Australia, Duke University, Ithaca College, Luther College, St. John’s University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Puget Sound, and Yale’s Merkin Hall concerts in New York City. Dr. Rønning has also taught at the University of Oxford as part of PLU’s IHON-Oxford study abroad program. Dr. Rønning is a native of the Pacific Northwest and holds an undergraduate degree in violin performance from Pacific

, and in the UK, the Aldeburgh Festival and Caritas Chamber Choir. As a specialist in Baroque repertoire, she frequently performs works of Bach and Handel with regional orchestras and choral ensembles, but she also loves a good romantic art song, especially one in Russian. She is a winner of the Northwest Region of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Award Competition (NATSAA), and the Ladies’ Musical Club of Seattle Competition. She received an encouragement award from the

Leon Fleisher). Recent solo performances include repeat appearances at Estes Park Music Festival Winter Series in Colorado, performing at the College Music Society 2017 conference in Vancouver, B.C., a performance at the Oklahoma Music Teachers’ Association 2016 State Conference, and frequent two-piano concerts as part of the duo she forms with pianist Ricardo de la Torre. Lark was born in California and grew up studying the piano and the violin. She received a DMA in piano performance from the