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  • Professor Emeritus | Music | Jeffrey Bell-Hanson retired in May 2023, following 21 years as Music Director of the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra.

    , clinician, adjudicator and orchestral educator. Each year he works with school orchestras at all levels throughout the region and beyond, bringing to them the perspective of his long career as a conductor and scholar. He is a past national president of the College Orchestra Directors Association. Dr. Bell-Hanson has conducted orchestras and wind ensembles throughout the United States and in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, including the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, the Olympia Symphony, the

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  • Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | schwinjl@plu.edu | 253.535.7682 | Dr.

    Jessica Schwinck, DNP, RN, CEN, ACCNS-AG, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC Director of Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Nursing Phone: 253.535.7682 Email: schwinjl@plu.edu Office Location:Ramstad Hall Biography Biography Dr. Jessica Schwinck is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington and a Primary Care Provider with Wellness Made Easy. She has 14 years of experience in Army medicine primarily in the Emergency/Trauma focus area. In addition, Dr

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor | Department of Biology | thorm@plu.edu | 253-535-7081

    Expertise Molecular Biology Cellular Biology Microbiology Selected Articles Yimam M, Horm T, O’Neal A, Jiao P, Hong M, Jia Q. "UP360, a Standardized Composition from Extracts of Aloe barbadense, Poria cocos, and Rosemary officinalis Protected Against Sepsis and Mitigated Acute Lung Injury in Murine Models." J Med Food 2023: Yimam M, O’Neal A, Horm T, Jiao P, Hong M, Rossiter S, Brownell L, Jia Q. "Antinociceptive and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Cannabidiol Alone and in Combination with Standardized

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  • Dean of Health Professions | College of Health Professions | warddb@plu.edu | 253-535-8284 | Dr.

    Supervision Couple Relationships Accolades 2015 - Volunteer of the Year for the Washington Association for Marriage and Family Therapy 2012 - Faculty Excellence Award for Mentoring, Pacific Lutheran University 2012 - Anselm Strauss Award along with Jennifer Davis ’07 PLU MFT graduate and Dr. Cheryl Storm PLU professor emeritus 2009 - Educator of the Year by the Washington Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Professional Memberships/Organizations American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy

  • Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, most recently Tom Connor’s Gift, a gold medalist in the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Book awards.

    gold medalist in the 2013 Independent Book Publishers Book Awards.  The winner of the Montana Arts Council’s Artist Innovation Award in 2010, his stories and poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, and his travel articles in Outside Magazine and the New York Times Sophisticated Traveler.  Cates is the executive director of Missoula Medical Aid, which leads groups of medical professionals to provide public health and surgery services in Honduras.  In Missoula he has worked with the

  • Professor Emeritus | Music | Edwin C.

    . Powell earned degrees from the University of the Pacific, the Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music and The University of North Texas where he completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting studying with Eugene Migliaro Corporon. Previous to his 2005 appointment at PLU, Dr. Powell was on faculty at the University of Tennessee, where he was Assistant Director of Bands responsible for the Symphonic Band, the 350 member Pride of the Southland Marching Band, conducting courses and music education

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  • Professor of Hebrew Bible | Religion | finitsak@plu.edu | 253-535-7319 | Antonios Finitsis’ approach to biblical literature is deeply socio-historical.

    Bible, Since Dr. Finitsis is an import from Greece, it is only fair that he responds in kind by taking LUTES to Greece with his J-Term course. Up to the present, he has led over a hundred PLU students to study away in the Mediterranean. In 2018 he celebrated in style the tenth anniversary of the student driven biblical/visual interpretation competition entitled: PLU Hebrew Idol. He is proudly teaching in PLU’s General Education, Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies, International Honors, and the

  • Professor Emerita and Faculty Fellow in Humanities | Religion | killenpo@plu.edu | Patricia O’Connell Killen, professor emerita, taught courses in the Department of Religion and in the International Core at PLU from 1989 through 2010.

    ) : View Book Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy, 1846-1879. Edited with Roberta Stringham Brown. (Seattle: University of Washington Press 2013) : View Book Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone. Primary Editor. Lanham (MD: Alta Mira Press 2004) : View Book Finding Our Voices: Women, Wisdom and FaithFaith (NY: Crossroad Publishing Company 1997) : View Book The Art of Theological Reflection (NY: Crossroad Publishing 1994) : View Book

  • Vice President for Student Life | Division of Student Life | roycedjc@plu.edu | 253-535-7200 | Dr.

    NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education in 2013; a PhD in Rehabilitation Counseling from Syracuse University in 2001; an M.A. in Counselor Education from San Jose State University in 1994; and a B.S. in Special Education with an emphasis in Community and Mental Health Counseling from Indiana University in 1990. Among her notable accomplishments, Joanna directs the graduate program in Student Affairs at the University of the Pacific.  She has also served as lead or co-designer for

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  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry | Department of Chemistry | aboysen@plu.edu | 253-535-7596 | Dr.

    research with PLU undergraduates. Stay tuned for opportunities to join the lab. Read more about Dr. Boysen’s research on her research webpage.

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