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  • Associate Professor of Music; Director of Jazz Studies | Music | cassio.vianna@plu.edu | 253-535-7760 | Cassio Vianna is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where he directs the University Jazz Ensemble and teaches jazz music courses.

    received during his years of training. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, a Master of Music degree from Western Oregon University, and a Doctor of Arts degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Northern Colorado, where he studied jazz composition with David Caffey. Dr. Vianna has been featured as a performer/clinician at festivals and conferences in Latin America and across the U.S. He has presented at the Midwest Clinic, Jazz Education

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  • Visiting Instructor of Music, Strings, and Composition | Music | korine.fujiwara@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Montana native Korine Fujiwara is a founding member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, a devoted and sought-after chamber musician and teacher, and a gifted composer and arranger. Ms.

    , the poignant sections in which characters in different periods actually sing together—a trio, a sextet, and even an octet—dovetail perfectly. The dramatic arc builds persuasively to the climactic moments, shifting with increasing speed between scenes to the culminating revelation.” (The Wall Street Journal) Korine is a recipient of an Opera America Commissioning Grant from the Opera Grants for Female Composers program, made possible through the generosity of The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, for

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  • Assistant Professor of Biology | Department of Biology | lnervo@plu.edu | 253-535-7376 | My discipline of interest is developmental biology, which is the study of the processes needed for animals and plants to grow and develop.  Developmental Biology is an excellent field that intersects, genetics, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology and comparative anatomy to answer key organismal growth questions.

    mathematical model of collective cell migration in a three-dimensional, heterogenous environment." PLoS One 2015: Accolades NIH Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education (SPIRE) Fellowship Professional Memberships/Organizations American Society for Cell Biology Society of Developmental Biology Genetics Society of America Biography My discipline of interest is developmental biology, which is the study of the processes needed for animals and plants to grow and develop.  Developmental Biology

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  • 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.

    the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Artist Trust of Washington, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Poetry. In 2020 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Tacoma, WA and is a professor of English at Pacific Lutheran University and the director of The Rainier Writing Workshop. His fourth book, The Galleons, was

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music - Piano | Music | erhsuan.li@plu.edu | 253-535-7647 | Praised by the New York Concert Review as having “played with astonishing maturity and flair,” Dr.

    , Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Violin Sonatas,” and “A Decade in the US: Stories of Studying Abroad.” This season, Li’s professional engagements will bring him to Xalapa, Mexico, as faculty for the Séptimo Festival de Perfeccionamiento Pianístico for the third consecutive year, serve as a competition staff collaborative pianist for the International Horn Competition of America, present a lecture at the annual conference of Colorado State Music Teachers Association at Colorado State University Pueblo, and

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  • Professor of Kinesiology | Department of Kinesiology | hackercm@plu.edu | 253-535-7363 | Dr.

    presentation, The Boeing Corporation, Your Competitive Edge – Secrets from Olympic Success, Seattle, WA (2016) AASP Virtual Conference on Consulting in Elite Sport, Invited Lecture, It’s Exactly the Same and Completely Different, Association of Applied Sport Psychology (2016) National Coaching Conference, Hacker, C.M. & Mann, M., Unleashing the tiger in the mirror: Performance enhancement through imagery and confidence, Seattle, WA (2016) NIKE North America, Elite Athletes: Yesterday, today and Tomorrow

  • Dean | School of Business | muldermr@plu.edu | 253-535-7258 | Dr.

    on poverty alleviation efforts, which is focused through the lens of business and transformative change. This multi-year research project will commence at the 2017 Association of Consumer Research/Transformative Consumer Research Conference at Cornell University, and will include a diverse team of marketing faculty/researchers who will collaborate with nonprofits and communities in Central America. Dr. Mulder believes the blend of teaching and research is important – and he actively integrates

  • Dean | Master of Business Administration | muldermr@plu.edu | 253-535-7258 | Dr.

    on poverty alleviation efforts, which is focused through the lens of business and transformative change. This multi-year research project will commence at the 2017 Association of Consumer Research/Transformative Consumer Research Conference at Cornell University, and will include a diverse team of marketing faculty/researchers who will collaborate with nonprofits and communities in Central America. Dr. Mulder believes the blend of teaching and research is important – and he actively integrates