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  • Chair of Computer Science | Department of Computer Science | lmurphy@plu.edu | 253-535-8729 | Research and Professional Activities Prof.

    programming: a review of the research literature." Computer Science Education Vol. 25:1, 2015: 37-66. Brian Hanks, Sue Fitzgerald, Renée McCauley, Laurie Murphy and Carol Zander. "Pair programming in education: a literature review." Computer Science Education Vol. 21:2, 2011: 135-173. Laurie Murphy and Lynda Thomas. "Dangers of a fixed mindset: implications of self-theories research for computer science education." Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science

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  • Associate Director of Choral Studies; Assistant Professor of Music | Music | domingr@plu.edu | 253-535-7613 | Raul Dominguez is the Associate Director of Choral Studies at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in the Tacoma, WA area where he leads their University Chorale, University Singers, and teaches courses in Secondary Methods and the Conducting sequence.

    College, 2019 Doctor of Musical Arts, Choral Conducting and Literature, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Choral Repertoire of the United Mexican States Movement Rehearsal Techniques Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Anti-Racist Pedagogy Conducting Choral Music Education Selected Publications Tipitin, arr. Raul Dominguez, Alfred Music, Lawson-Gould Series, SATB and SSAA Selected Presentations TMEA, Midwest ACDA, Northwest ACDA, NCCO, Nosotres Existimos: Mexican Choral

  • Professor of English | Department of English | barotrp@plu.edu | 253-535-7318 | Rick Barot has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A.

    Rick Barot Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7318 Email: barotrp@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building - Room 209 Website: https://rickbarot.com/ Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Director of MFA Education M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1998 B.A., Wesleyan University, 1992 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Creative Writing Poetry Ethnic Literature Gay/Lesbian Literature Books Chord: Poems (Sarabande Books 2015) : View Book Want: Poems (Sarabande Books 2008) : View

  • Professor of Early and Medieval Christian History | Religion | bll@plu.edu | 253-535-7237 | Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen teaches courses in the history of early and medieval Christianity, and specific topics in historical theology and Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

    Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen Professor of Early and Medieval Christian History Phone: 253-535-7237 Email: bll@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 207-A Status:On Sabbatical Professional Biography Education Ph.D., University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, 2004 MTS, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, 1994 B.A., English Literature, Concordia University, Portland, 1990 B.A., Education, Concordia University, Portland, 1990 Books John Moschos’ Spiritual Meadow

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  • Fiction, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Matt Young  is the author of the memoir, Eat the Apple (Bloomsbury, 2018), and the novel, End of Active Service (Bloomsbury, 2024).

    Matt Young Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Matt Young  is the author of the memoir, Eat the Apple (Bloomsbury, 2018), and the novel, End of Active Service (Bloomsbury, 2024). His stories and essays have appeared in TIME, Granta, Tin House, Catapult, and The Cincinnati Review among other publications. He is the recipient of fellowships from Words After War and The Carey Institute for Global Good, and teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at Centralia College in Washington

  • Benson Chair, Emeritus | Department of History | carpw@plu.edu | E.

    Adoption”, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (March 27-30, 2014) Invited Panelist, 2012 Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, Book Session: John E. Murray, 'A World of Children: The Charleston Orphan House,1790-1860” (University of Chicago Press, 2012), Vancouver, British Columbia (November 1-4, 2012) Invited Speaker, 2012 Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture’s Fourth International Conference on Adoption and Culture, "Mapping Adoption: Histories, Geographies

  • Professor Emeritus of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | dollinmb@plu.edu | Current position Pacific Lutheran University 1981 – 1998. Emeritus Professor, Department of Mathematics, 1998 – present. Chair, Department of Mathematics, 1992 – 1994. Publications Commentary on ‘Misunderstandings about Q and ‘Cochran’s Q test’ in meta-analysis’, Statistics in Medicine, 2015, 35(4):501-502 · February 20, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/sim.6758 (with E.

    /95 Victoria University of Wellington, N.Z. 1/88 – 6/88 La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 8/87 – 12/87 Zhongshan (Sun Yat-Sen) University, Guangzhou China 9/85 – 7/86 University of California, Berkeley 9/71 – 8/72 University of British Colombia, 5/70 – 8/70 Queens University, (Canada), 5/69 – 8/69

  • Professor of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | sklarjk@plu.edu | 253-535-8341 | Jessica received her Ph.D.

    2017) : View Book Mathematics in Popular Culture: Essays on Appearances in Film, Literature, Games, Television and Other Media co-edited with Elizabeth S. Sklar (McFarland & Co. 2012) : View Book Selected Presentations MAA MathFest, Collaboration in the Time of COVID, Virtual (August 5, 2021) AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings, Cinematic Chicken: A Friendly Introduction to Game Theory, Denver, CO (January 15, 2020) Seattle University Math Colloquium, Money! Mystery! Murder! Madness! Metaphor

  • Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Scott Nadelson is the author of four story collections, most recently The Fourth Corner of the World; a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress; and a novel, Between You and Me.  His stories and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been cited as notable in both Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.  Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor.

    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.’”

  • Professor of Kinesiology | Department of Kinesiology | papadoha@plu.edu | 253-535-8706

    Descriptive Study." Internation Journal of Exercise Science Vol. 6(1), 2013: 52-62. B.E. Saelens and C. Papadopoulos. "The Importance of the Built Environment in Older Adults’ Physical Activity: A Review of the Literature." Washington State Journal of Public Health Practice Vol. 1, 2008: 13-21.

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