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of a housing development, in Kalliola, S., Kettunen, P., Eskelinen, O. Kosonen, K., Rostila, I. & Leander, A. (eds)." Improvement by evaluation: Peer reviewed full papers of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation for Practice “Evaluation as a Tool for Research, Learning and Making Things Better 2012: 41-49, ISBN: 978-951-44-8859-7. Keller, J. "Book review: ‘Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Western Europe and the United States' by Jan Willem Duyvendak." Housing, Theory and

the field of law, international development, and technology.  James comes to the PLU Counseling Center with a love for the infinite potential between deep human connection and personal identity.  From this love is the belief that every individual has different needs at different moments of time, whether that be spiritually, culturally, and/or experientially.

Teaching Effectiveness Award, University of California, Berkeley (2021) Biography I received a dual BA in Social Work and Psychology and a Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington, Tacoma. I then spent several years in the Bay Area earning my PhD in Social Work from the University of California, Berkeley, before returning to the Puget Sound. As a Tacoma native, the PNW is a part of me. I am in this role because I have a deep appreciation for the field of social work and the

“soft-rock” area, Stratigraphy and Sedimentation and Paleontology. Hands-on experiences in the lab and field have always been central to Steve’s classes and he loves to take students out to the coast during the lowest tides of the year, even when it involves a 6 am start! He has led many field trip courses that students remember fondly, notably to Hawaii over J-term and to the interior Southwest in the four corners area over Spring Break. He also taught in the Middle College/Challenge Program for

Expertise Behavioral Ecology Selected Articles Julie W. Smith, Trevor Fetz, Monika Shea, Craig W. Benkman. "Nest-site selection by Cassia Crossbills and management implications." Journal of Field Ornithology Vol. 93, 2021: 203-211. Cody K. Porter and Julie W. Smith. "Diversification in trophic morphology and a mating signal are coupled in the early stages of sympatric divergence in crossbills." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society Vol. 129, 2020: 74-87.

undergraduate program in the PLU Education Department since 2003. With expertise in the areas of curriculum and instruction, Dr. Weiss works closely with students in the field. She also collaborates with the Clover Park School district planning, facilitating and teaching their Mentor College and beginning teacher program. Dr. Weiss also works with teachers in a local alternative high school as a facilitator for a Positive Behavior Support grant from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Dr

drumming of the Ewe and Yoruba tribes, Afro-Cuban drumming, Brazilian sambas, and jazz for mallet keyboard instruments. Ivester earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Eastern Washington University, and he did undergraduate and graduate work in ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii that included field study in gamelan music on the island of Java. PLU Faculty: Jazz Sound Trio

finding glimmers of silliness (even in the tough stuff). She hopes to sit with you as you navigate your way through the big questions of life, the nitty gritty, and everything in between. Rachel comes to PLU with ten years of experience in the developmental disability field. Her favorite role was teaching self-advocacy and healthy relationship courses. She is currently a second-year graduate student at Seattle University pursuing a Master of Arts in Psychology. As a human, Rachel values warm lighting

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

-1066. Some Aspects of Spectral Theory on Banach Spaces, Ph.D. dissertation, U. of Illinois, 1968. Predicting effectiveness of Bayesian classification systems, Psychometrika31 (1966) p.341-349 (with L.M. Herman). Other Academic Experience Previous positions University of Washington 9/79 – 6/81 Louisiana State University 9/68 – 6/73 Visiting positions University of Hertfordshire, UK 8/02 – 9-02 La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 10/95 – 12/97 University in Agder, Kristiansand, Norway 7/94 – 8