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Staff Pianist | Music | aboers@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Amy Boers is well known as a collaborative pianist, music director, singer, and church musician. As pianist and collaborator, she currently holds positions at Pacific Lutheran University (staff pianist), Symphony Tacoma (principal keyboard), and Symphony Tacoma Voices (pianist and assistant rehearsal conductor).
project-based treble ensemble, as well as her vocal collaborations in the studio with local composers and singers. She is currently in the midst of recording vocal tracks for an upcoming album of new arrangements of traditional gospel songs and hymns, as well as new compositions in this genre. When not making music, she loves to garden, cycle, and travel with her family. Most important to her at this time is spending time with her three beloved grandchildren, Adler, Jack, and Holden.
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Professor of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | edgartj@plu.edu | 253-535-7238 | Tom grew up in Colorado and attended college at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
, Pacific Lutheran University, Summer 2014 Academy of Inquiry Based Learning Small Grant , Academy of Inquiry Based Learning, 2013 NSF Grant DMS-0846477 through the MAA RUMC program , MAA/NSF, 2013 American Institute of Mathematics Travel Grant , Palo Alto, CA, Summer 2012 Regency Advancement Award , Pacific Lutheran University, 2012 Professional Memberships/Organizations Mathematical Association of America , (2006 - Present) Biography Tom grew up in Colorado and attended college at Dickinson College in
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Professor of Physics | Department of Physics | hay@plu.edu | 253-535-7999 | I enjoy explaining physics concepts on a level that is understandable.
in Physics Vol. 16, 2013: "560 multiple choice questions with answer-specific feedback (Online Quizzes) (Scholarship of Teaching) requested by editor, for the publisher W. H. Freeman to accompany new textbook." University Physics for Life Science July 2012: "Physics of energy as a travel course." (Public Intellectual, article) published in EnergyTeachers.org Community Newsletter. Ithaca, NY February 2012: K. Hay and M. Dragila. "Physics of Fluid Spreading on Roughness." Special Issue on Modeling
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Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History | Department of History | halvormj@plu.edu | 253-535-8258 | Michael Halvorson teaches business and economic history courses in the Department of History at PLU, as well as classes on innovation and the history of technology.
preserving the memories and contributions of technology workers and organizations. He is currently working with Microsoft as a senior oral historian to record the memories of its alumni as the company approaches its 50th anniversary (1975-2025). A sample of his scholarship in this area is “The Help Desk: Changing Images of Product Support in Personal Computing, 1975-1990,” published in Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society, edited by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick (Johns
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Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies | Native American and Indigenous Studies | storfjta@plu.edu | 253-535-8514 | Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist criticism and decolonize methodologies.
Pedagogy of Sámi Place,” a pedagogical research project in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish Sápmi, Summer 2016 Kelmer Roe Grant, Humanities Division, Pacific Lutheran University, for “Language Revitalization and Critical Indigenous Pedagogy,” joint project with Suzanne Crawford O’Brien and Kelly Hall, Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 NORTANA Travel Grant, The Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Summer 2011 NORTANA Housing Grant, The Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America, Summer and Fall
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Professor of French | French & Francophone Studies | wilkinrm@plu.edu | Coached by Professor Wilkin in French soccer slang, the French team won the Hong International Hall World Cup. Professor Wilkin teaches in four different programs at PLU: French & Francophone Studies, the International Honors program, the First Year Experience program, and Global Studies.
Gardner and Anna Nguyen, 2021-2022. Kelmer Roe Student Faculty Collaborative Research Grant ($6000), with student Sonja F. Ruud, 2011-2012 Other Grants NEH Translation/Edition Grant ($133,333), “An Edition and Translation of Louise Dupin’s Philosophical Treatise, The Work on Women,” with Angela Hunter, 2020-2021. NEH Summer Stipend ($6000), “An Edition and Translation of Selections from Louise Dupin’s Work on Women,” 2019. Harry Ransom Center Travel Grant, “Assembling Louise Dupin’s Work on Women for
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Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | urdangga@plu.edu | 253-535-7240
Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Whose Trauma, What Memory? O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias” by Cao Hamburger (2006), Seattle University, Seattle (October 19-21, 2012) Xenographies II: The Representation of Foreigners in Literature, Travel Writing and Other Discourses, sponsored by Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada (SELGYC), the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), and the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research, “¿Hermandad genérica
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Professor Emeritus | Earth Science | benhamsr@plu.edu | Dr.
loved to take students on expeditions to recover whale skeletons or fossils from ancient cold seep communities. All our alumni remember him for his enthusiasm, encouragement, inspiration and for challenging them to be the best they could be. Steve has given generously of his time to the university and community, serving as chair of the department, managing the Rieke Science Center shop, and working with the Facilities staff on many projects, particularly in campus emergency preparedness. He is noted
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