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Gail Egbers Emeritus Librarian Status:Emeritus Professional Biography Education M.A., Library Science, University of Denver, 1974 B.A., English, Midland Lutheran College, 1973 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise English History Religion Selected Presentations Part of Tacoma Reads Together, panel discussion with Adam Woog, Mary Levesque and Julie Ciccarelli, Everybody Loves a Mystery, Tacoma Public Library (May 25, 2010) PLU Faculty House Noon Presentation, Libraries at Oxford, Pacific Lutheran

Burton Nesset, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Professional Education Ph.D., Purdue University, 1962 M.S., Purdue University, 1960 B.A., St. Olaf College, 1957 Responsibilities Biochemistry Nutrition  

Michele Crayton Professor Emeritus of Biology Email: craytoma@plu.edu Professional Education M.S., Plant Physiology/Development, Oregon State University, 1974 M.S., Biology, University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1969 B.S., Biology, University of Missouri at Kansas City, 1967 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Toxic freshwater cyanobacteria

-Required Reading.  She is a professor in the Department of English-MFA/MA in Creative Writing and Publishing Program at DePaul University in Chicago, where she directs the LGBTQ Studies minor and edits Slag Glass City, a journal of the urban essay arts.  Mentor. Workshops and classes in nonfiction. Statement: “Writing is a process: part thought, part instinct, part wish. Every honest draft holds some glimmer of what your work might become. To write is to try, try, and try again, until we’re stunned to

University (2011) Biography Christian Gerzso was born in Mexico City, where he received his B.A. in English with honors from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in 2004. In 2012 he completed his Ph.D. in English at New York University, where he was a Mellon Foundation Fellow (2011-2012), with his dissertation The Labors of Leisure: The Intellectual Work of Wilde, Woolf, and Orwell. Gerzso’s teaching emphases include late-nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature and culture

Rona Kaufman Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7295 Email: kaufman@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-D Status:On Sabbatical Professional Education Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2002 M.A., University of Maine, 1994 B.A., Penn State University, 1992 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Composition Rhetoric and Writing Literacy Pedagogy English Language Accolades Faculty Excellence Award in Mentoring, 2016-2017 Pacific Lutheran University Graves Award in the Humanities

Mei Zhu Associate Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Email: zhuma@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Education Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Washington, 1994 M.S., University of Washington, 1990 M.S., Chinese Academia Sinica, Beijing, 1988 B.S., Tsinghua University, Beijing, 1985 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Mathematical Biology Differential Equations Numerical Analysis

Mary Ellard-Ivey Professor of Biology she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-7357 Email: ellardma@plu.edu Office Location: Rieke Science Center - 144 Office Hours: (On Campus) Wed: 11:40 am - 1:30 pm (On Campus) Thu: 10:30 am - 11:30 am (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Education Ph.D., Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, 1994 M.S., Botany, University College Dublin, 1988 B.S., Botany, University College Dublin, 1987 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Plant responses to the

Priscilla A. St. Clair Professor of Economics Email: stclaipa@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Education Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995 B.A., Wake Forest University, 1988 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Development Economics Environmental Economics Intermediate Microeconomics Community forest management Household energy use in developing countries

Duane Swank, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Phone: 253-535-7556 Email: swankdd@plu.edu Professional Education M.B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, 1982 Teaching/Research Postdoc, Washington State University, 1968-70 Ph.D., Montana State University, 1969 B.S., Washington State University, 1964