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  • Visiting Instructor and Director, MSW & BSW Practicum Programs | Department of Social Work | carrington@plu.edu | 253-535-7859 | Maria Carrington earned her Bachelor of Social Work from Pacific Lutheran University and obtained her master of Social Work from Boston College.

    Maria Theresa Carrington, MSW, LICSW, CST Visiting Instructor and Director, MSW & BSW Practicum Programs she/her/hers I love teaching PLU students because it gives me the unique opportunity to witness the next generation of social workers. I am deeply enthusiastic about nurturing their compassion, fostering critical thinking, and equipping them with the tools to create positive, meaningful change. Phone: 253-535-7859 Email: carrington@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 110 Office Hours: (On

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  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | kdiaz@plu.edu | I earned my BSN at Northern Arizona University and my Masters in Nursing at PLU as a Family Nurse Practitioner.

    Kimberly Diaz, MSN, ARNP, FNP Clinical Instructor of Nursing Email: kdiaz@plu.edu Professional Biography Education BSN, Nursing, Northern Arizona University MSN_FNP, Nursing , Pacific Lutheran University Biography I earned my BSN at Northern Arizona University and my Masters in Nursing at PLU as a Family Nurse Practitioner. My background in bedside nursing is Critical care and open heart recovery. As a Family Nurse Practitioner in Primary care my passion was health promotion and disease

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  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | nelsonla@plu.edu | I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Washington State in 2009.

    outpatient clinic setting in a Cardiology clinic doing triage and education. I currently work as a triage and advice Nurse for multiple primary care clinics. My clinical and educational areas of interest include critical care medicine, functional medicine and of course cardiology.

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  • Professor Emeritus of Physics | Department of Physics | tangka@plu.edu | 253-535-7539 | K.T.

    Scientists 2 Vector Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations and Laplace Transforms (Springer 2007) : View Book Mathematical Methods for Engineers and Scientists 3 Fourier Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Variational Methods (Springer 2007) : View Book Selected Articles K.T. Tang. "Approximate Treatments of Reactive Scattering: The T Matrix Approach in Theory of Chemical Reaction Dynamics." CRC Press Vol. II, 1985: 125. Biography K.T. Tang (Kwong-Tin Tang) received his B.S. in Engineering

  • Associate Professor of Education | School of Education | kimck@plu.edu | 253-535-7775 | Dr.

    and teaches math, science, technology integration, educational psychology, and multicultural education courses. Publications include a chapter for an American Educational Research Association (AERA) special interest group on Community Engaged Learning (CEL) and the application of ideation to deepening teacher technology integration in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice. She works with universities across the state in NextGen-WA [NSF grant, Next Generation of STEM Teacher

  • 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).

    immediate preference and comfort; it’s essential for writers to engage deeply with the nuances of language, voice, and style and to develop a sensitivity and understanding toward the formal and technical aspects of their craft. By emphasizing aesthetic values in the workshop, I aim to equip my students with the tools and critical frameworks they need to both understand and create work that is personally meaningful and artistically significant.

  • Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy | Marriage and Family Therapy | alexus.hamilton@plu.edu | 253-535-8167 | Dr.

    . Hamilton, A., Duncan, J. M., & Reed-Fitzke, K.. "CFLEs are more equipped than they realize to help military families cope with unique stressors." CFLE Network Vol. 33.3, 2020: 14-20. Accolades Dissertation of the Year Award, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy 2024 Best Poster Award, Intervention Research in Systemic Family Therapy Annual Conference 2022 Association of Marriage and Family Therapy Minority Fellow 2022 Clinical Excellence Award – Theory and Cultural Responsivity, UI 2022

  • Dean of Assessment and Core Curriculum | Office of the Provost | rogers@plu.edu | 253-535-7985 | Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home.

    time in New Orleans, he now considers “The Big Easy” like a second home. Scott arrives at PLU from Ohio Northern University, a small liberal arts school in northwest Ohio, where he served as Director of University Writing. His teaching interests include: first-year writing, community and public literacy, professional writing with an emphasis on new media, and the application of rhetorical theory to visual and spatial artifacts. His research interests are focused on many of these same topics, as

  • Chair of Psychology | Department of Psychology | artimetm@plu.edu | Dr.

    , Psychology, Seattle Pacific University, 2005 Selected Publications Artime, T.M. & Buchholz, K. (2016). Treatment for sexual assault victims at university counseling centers. College Student Psychotherapy, 30, 252-261. doi: 10.1080/87568225.2016.1219610 Artime, T.M. & Peterson, Z.D. (2015). Feelings of wantedness and consent during nonconsensual sex: Implications for posttraumatic cognitions. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 7, 570-577. doi: 10.1037/tra0000047 Artime, T.M

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  • Founding Director, In Memoriam | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Judith Kitchen (1941-2014)  was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU.  She is the author of four collections of essays, most recently The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014).

    , winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press, as well as a critical study of William Stafford, Writing the World (Oregon State University Press).  She edited (with Ted Kooser, former U. S. Poet Laureate) an anthology of bird poems: The Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press).  In addition, she edited three collections of short nonfiction: In Short; In Brief; and Short Takes (all W. W. Norton).  A fourth anthology—Brief Encounter, co-edited with Dinah Lenney—is forthcoming from W. W