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Ann Auman Dean of Natural Sciences she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-8485 Email: aumanaj@plu.edu Office Location: Morken Center for Learning & Technology - 239 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography News Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Biology Natural Sciences Undergraduate Research Program Director Responsible Administrator for the Tacoma/South Puget Sound MESA Program Pre-Health Sciences Advising Team Member STEMinist Student Club Faculty Advisor Education

Joanna Gregson Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Phone: 253-535-7126 Email: provost@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Sociology Education Ph.D., Sociology, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998 B.A., Sociology, Western Washington University, 1993 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Research Methods Deviance / Criminology Sex and Gender Family Books Culture of Teenage Mothers (State University of New York Press 2010) : View Book Biography As

Century Poetry Inspired by Ancient Egypt (Rutherford 2007) : View Book A Study of Ancient Egyptian Cordage in the British Museum (British Museum Occasional Papers) (with David Hansen, British Museum Occasional Papers 1988) : View Book Biography Donald P. Ryan is best known for his research in Egypt including excavations in the Valley of the Kings. He has led many expeditions and is the author of several books and numerous scientific and popular articles on archaeological subjects. For several years

Marigold Hartzell Accounting Assistant Phone: 253-535-8867 Email: mhartzell@plu.edu Professional Responsibilities JP Morgan Chase P-Card Administrator P-Card Use Tax Research & Processing Travel Expense Voucher Reconciliation Travel and Purchase Card Policies Department Website  

Human Evolution and Social Research, Arizona State University (2013) Presentation for the Asociación de Guias de Oaxaca A.C, Las herramientas de piedra de Calixtlahuaca: interpretaciones sociopolíticas preliminaries de la periferia azteca occidental (Calixtlahuaca Stone Tools: Preliminary Sociopolitical Interpretations from the Western Aztec Periphery), Association of Tour Guides, Oaxaca (2011) Paper presented at the Pacific Lutheran University Faculty Scholarship Dinner, Calixtlahuaca Stone Tools

, B., M. Behrens, B. Allen, M. Hintz, H. Parker, M. McCartha, S. White. "Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the Early Life History Stages of the Native Olympia Oyster Ostrea lurida (Carpenter, 1864) in a Restoration Site in Northern Puget Sound, WA." Journal of Shellfish Research Vol. 39(1), 2020: 43-58. Becker, B., M. Behrens, B. Lemay†, Y. Shevalier, C. Henzler, E. Hoaglund, S. Staggers†, J. Brokenshire†. "Novel tracking technique indicates importance of rare events driving larval connectivity

that resulted in PLU being a recipient of the Sen. Paul Simon Award for Internationalizing the Campus from NAFSA: Association of International Educators 2006 Recipient of the “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) Biography Dr. Sobania, Professor of History Emeritus, retired from PLU in 2016. Neal Sobania has extensive experience in living, working, and conducting research in Africa that began as a freshly minted college graduate with his

Drosophila Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA (April 2018) Selected Articles LA.Manning, KZ Perez-Vale, KN Schaefer, MT Sewell, M. Peifer. "The Drosophila Afadin and ZO-1 homologs Canoe and Polychaetoid act in parallel to maintain epithelial integrity when challenged by adherens junction remodeling." Mol Biol Cell 2019: LA.Manning, J. Sheth, S. Bridges, A, Saadin, K. Odinammadu, D. Andrew D, S. Spencer , D. Montell, M. Starz-Gaiano. "A hormonal cue promotes timely follicle cell migration by modulating

Expertise Fluid Physics Books Little Bear's Big Night Sky (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2015) : View Book Selected Presentations Geoscience Association, Co-author Research Presentation: “ Capillary Droplets Embedded in a Lubricating Film: Enhancing rock-liquid solute transfer ” Maria Inés Dragila and Katrina M. Hay, Denver, Colorado (October 2013) Geoscience Association, Co-author Research Presentation : “ Erosion potential of capillary solitons in fluid transport through the epikarst

, fertility, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to socio-cultural values and norms in rural Bangladesh. Her study results have been published in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies (2000) and the Journal of International Women’s Studies (2004). She also conducted research on the inter-generational family relationships of Germans and Turkish immigrants living in Germany. Some of the conclusions from this research have been published in