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Courtney Olsen Manager of Short-Term Programs she/her Phone: 253-535-7628 Email: olsencd@plu.edu Office Location:Wang Center for Global Education Status:Working Hybrid Professional Biography Education B.A., Economics and History, Pacific Lutheran University, 2018 M.St., Modern British History, University of Oxford, 2020 Responsibilities Supports faculty in the development, implementation, and budget management of Short-Term Study Away Programs including travel logistics Supports faculty in

Gordon Craig, MBA Email: craiggr@plu.edu Biography Biography Gordon Craig is an Audit Manager with the U.S. Army Audit Agency—the Army’s internal audit organization. Gordon has worked as an Army civilian since 1993, mostly with Army Audit. He has participated in audits of the Army Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works Program financial statements and has led numerous operational audits of Army business processes for contracting, construction, facilities management, medical readiness, military pay

Gordon Craig, MBA Email: craiggr@plu.edu Biography Biography Gordon Craig is an Audit Manager with the U.S. Army Audit Agency—the Army’s internal audit organization. Gordon has worked as an Army civilian since 1993, mostly with Army Audit. He has participated in audits of the Army Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works Program financial statements and has led numerous operational audits of Army business processes for contracting, construction, facilities management, medical readiness, military pay

Education Ph.D., Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008 M.A., Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006 B.S. Magna Cum Laude, Physics, The Ohio State University, 2003 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Cosmology Particle Physics String Theory Selected Presentations University of Vienna, Cosmological Chaos, Complexity, and the OTOC, Vienna, Austria (October 2020) de-Sitter Constructions in String Theory Workshop, Constraints on dS from Higher Dimensions, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA

Service Award – Pacific Lutheran University, 2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award - Western Academy of Management, 2009, 2011 Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence Award – University of Utah, 2009 Best Doctoral Student Paper – Western Academy of Management, 2008 Professional Memberships/Organizations Academy of Management Western Academy of Management Biography Dr. Brown teaches strategy, entrepreneurship and global management in the undergraduate program at PLU.  His scholarship in entrepreneurship and

Biography Dr. David Ward became Dean of the College of Health Professions in 2022 and is a Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT). He arrived at PLU in 2005 and became Chair of the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy in 2009. In addition to these roles, he has served in various leadership positions at PLU (including Budget Advisory Committee and Faculty Affairs Committee) and as a volunteer within the field of MFT and the community. Dr. Ward continues to actively practice as a marriage and

Expertise Developmental Psychology Cognitive Psychology Psychology of Gender Language Acquisition Research Projects Storytime Studies, Current Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Principal Investigator | Investigating which facial features signal gender to children ages 4-7. Investigating the effects of stereotyped stories on children’s cognitive abilities and motivation. Male Default Study, 2021-2022 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Principal Investigator | Survey based study, in data collection process

Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Cognitive science Language learning Psycholinguistics Phonology Speech perception Selected Articles Finley, S. "Morphological cues as an aid to word learning: A cross-situational word learning study." Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2022: Finley, S., Milward, B., Lewis, T., and Charania, S. "Gender bias in morphological inferences." Language and Cognition 2022: Wang, S. and Finley, S. "Directionality Effects and Exceptions in Learning Phonological Alternations." In

Outstanding Teaching – Pacific Lutheran University, 2012 Dean’s Service Award – Pacific Lutheran University, 2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award - Western Academy of Management, 2009, 2011 Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence Award – University of Utah, 2009 Best Doctoral Student Paper – Western Academy of Management, 2008 Professional Memberships/Organizations Academy of Management Western Academy of Management Biography Dr. Brown teaches strategy, entrepreneurship and global management in the undergraduate

Dream Gonzales, LAT, ATC Community Director for Stuen & Ordal Halls she/her Phone: 253-535-7700 Email: dgonzales@plu.edu Office Location:Stuen Hall - Room 117 Professional Biography Education Master of Education, Student Development Administration, Seattle University Bachelor of Science, Athletic Training, University of La Verne Responsibilities Campus Life Responsibilities Supervise the Ordal and Stuen RA’s Support the following Learning Communities in Ordal & Stuen Halls: First in the Family