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from the Music Teachers National Association and is a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. He has been honored with the Excellence in Education Award from Ohio Magazine.  Dr. Bennett served multiple terms as Commissioner on the Washington State Arts Commission, on the Grants Committee of The Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, and as Commissioner on the Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission. He has served on the executive boards of the Music Teachers National Association, Central Ohio

. Cornell Seminar for U.S. Campus Faculty at Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2023. Professional Memberships/Organizations INoGS (International Network of Genocide Scholars) , (2012 - Present) German Studies Association , (1999 - Present) American Catholic Historical Association American Historical Association The Ohio Academy of History American Society of Church History Biography Beth A. Griech-Polelle serves as the Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies at Pacific

Designer’s Forum Participant 2010 Michael Merritt Designer showcase participant Biography Amanda Sweger is a lighting and scenic designer who has free-lanced in Seattle, Chicago, Nashville, and Philadelphia. She received an MFA from Northwestern University in 2011 and is now a tenured professor at Pacific Lutheran University where she has been a professor since 2012. She has been the chair of theatre and dance since Fall 2022. She is proud to have designed with companies such as The Second City, TimeLine

, including The Night Gardener: A Search for Home, which won a 2000 Oregon Book Award in Literary Nonfiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Agni, The Georgia Review, and other literary journals, and have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize. She is also the editor of The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows, an international anthology of short fiction from St. Martins Press (2015). She has been a member of the RWW faculty since its founding

Abdo Yahiaoui Lead Cook Phone: 253-535-7472 Email: yahiaoaa@plu.edu Biography Biography I am 33 years old from Algeria (ask Google if you don’t know it), I speak 3 languages (Arabic, French and English ), I have been in the food industry for 3 years, I love it and enjoy it.

Kathleen Anderson Resident Assistant Professor of Theatre, Costume Designer, Costume Shop Manager she/her Phone: 253-535-7326 Email: anderskw@plu.edu Office Location: Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts - 220 Status:Part-time Professional Biography Education M.F.A., Theatrical Design, Northwestern University, 2004 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Costume Design Biography Kathleen Anderson has been a member of the design faculty in the PLU Theatre Program since 1998. Her favorite

encouraging them to make discoveries of their own. Above all, I try on a daily basis to remind myself and my students of the joy that literature can provide both reader and writer, the relief from a world that often suppresses joy, the pleasure of finding a way to communicate genuinely what it feels like to be human. What a wonderful way to spend one’s life, working day after day to compose, in the words of the great William Goyen, ‘the music of what was.’”

coordination Individual and group training Student staff employment support On campus work study Biography Hello Lutes! I’m the Student Employment Human Resources Specialist for Pacific Lutheran University. My goal is to support, encourage, and assist all students workers on campus whether that be filling out I-9 forms, W-4s, applying for jobs, or giving work advice. Feel free to stop by during my office hours or send me an email if you have any questions about on campus jobs, I am always happy to chat

Lathiena Nervo Assistant Professor of Biology she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-7376 Email: lnervo@plu.edu Office Location: Rieke Science Center - 148 Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Developmental Biology, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, 2015 B.S., Biological Sciences, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, 2004 Selected Presentations Manning,L.A., Ronk,H., Sewell, M.,Peifer, M., The scaffold protein Canoe and ZO1/Polychaetoid work together to

of being mystical and impossible, but it’s not when it’s broken into its most simple concepts. It’s all around us: driving a car, making music, flying in an airplane, drinking through a straw, riding roller coasters… It can be very satisfying to understand the physical phenomena in the world around you. The value of physics is that it is a way of thinking, not just a piece of knowledge. The most important thing you can take from a physics class is the ability to look at a problem that you have