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University Pastor | Campus Ministry | rudejl@plu.edu | 253-535-7465 | The Rev.
years Jen served as an Outreach Minister with The Night Ministry in Chicago, where she provided pastoral care, crisis response and advocacy in an interfaith and multicultural setting for street-based young adults. In 2007, Jen was extraordinary ordained at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Chicago and served there as Associate Pastor. After policy change at the national level removed barriers for partnered LGBTQ clergy, Jen was received onto the ELCA roster in 2011. Jen received her Masters of
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Education | Music | justin.lader@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Justin Lader received his PhD in music and human learning from The University of Texas at Austin, Master’s degree in viola performance with emphasis in string pedagogy from the University of Oregon, and Bachelor’s of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory.
Oregon). Other collaborative projects include recording and performing with Jake McNeillie on his albums, Dream Country and Delirium: A Southern Gothic Fable, as well as recording with singer-songrwriter Albert Howell, We Have A Ghost, and This Patch of Sky. Additionally, Dr. Lader has done outreach work with CardioStart International, performing live to support the organizations mission to provide free heart surgeries in developing countries.
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Professor Emeritus of Physics | Department of Physics | starkovich@plu.edu | Steven P.
construction of the observatory, worked closely with students in assembling the dome and installing the telescope, and oversaw several undergraduate research projects. The observatory has been a valuable addition to the university’s astronomy curriculum and to its public outreach efforts through PLU’s annual Jazz Under the Stars concerts and through occasional events held in collaboration with the Tacoma Astronomical Society. Prior to becoming acting provost in 2009 and then provost in 2010, his university
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Resident Instructor of Business | School of Business | pfaffcm@plu.edu | 253-535-7244 | Cosette Pfaff brings 25+ years of business practitioner experience, working on both the revenue generating and operational side of business and has a passion for growing healthy organizations.
, interpersonal communications, leadership skills, organizational behavior, management and supervision, and behavioral change through methods that provide sustainable results, not the motivational “quick fixes” typical of seminar based trainings. Her diverse background includes executive management in engineering, manufacturing, telecom, HVAC and running a business incubator; company composition ranged from Fortune 500 to national, multi-site and multi-division, to small, single entity start-ups. Her client
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Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | gwest@plu.edu | 253-535-7348 | I am a nurse scientist with a focus of research on infection control topics. I joined the Lute team in September of 2022 and enjoy teaching various courses across the BSN, MSN, and DNP curriculum. .
-33, doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000662804.81454.66. Resendiz M, Blanchard DM, Lustik MB, Horseman TS, West GF. Effect of SARs-CoV-2 pandemic on infection prevention behaviors and bacterial burden of high touch surfaces in a medical/surgical setting. Sci Rep. 2022 Apr 1;12(1):5561. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-09548-4. PMID: 35365725; PMCID: PMC8973674. Blanchard DM, Resendiz M, Lustik MB, West GF. Limited impact of an ultraviolet disinfection intervention on hygienic behaviors of nursing staff in a military
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Associate Professor of Education | School of Education | kimck@plu.edu | 253-535-7775 | Dr.
(Blackboard) Teacher Certification, 2009 Certificate in Mixed Methods Education Sciences, 2017 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Innovation and Technology in Education Instructional Design, Learning Environments Organizational Change Content Integration Science and Engineering Practices Programs: FYEP, BAE, MAE, ARC Biography Dr. Kim has been involved with the work of teacher preparation at PLU since 2005 – teaching, mentoring, and designing programs and certificates. She joined as full-time faculty in 2018
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Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.
towards your own understanding of why. The basis of a workshop or mentorship is exploring why you write—and read—poetry. I will encourage you to follow the areas of poetics and the poets you are interested in as well as the poetics and poets you resist. We can only deepen our poetics by understanding our resistances. Poetry is all transformation; pursuing poetry means we are open to change. In my teaching, I will encourage you in taking creative, imaginative risks, and will ask you to consider your
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Professor of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | stuartjl@plu.edu | 253-535-7403 | Professor Jeff Stuart teaches mathematics and statistics for the Mathematics Department.
program. In addition to teaching a variety of courses, he has supervised over forty senior theses and masters projects in pure and applied mathematics, statistics and finance. Professor Stuart obtained bachelors degrees in mathematics and physics from Pomona College. Subsequently, he earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the real UW — the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His mathematics research interests lie at the intersection of graph theory, matrix theory and combinatorics. In addition
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Professor of Chemistry* | Department of Chemistry | fryhlecb@plu.edu | 253-535-7530 | Craig Fryhle began his career at PLU in 1986 working on organic synthesis targets related to natural products and potential mechanism-based enzyme inhibitors of the shikimic acid pathway. He has mentored undergraduate researchers in these areas who have gone on to careers in academia, industry and other pursuits.
laboratory Chemistry Capstone Prior Teaching Involvement: Organic Special Projects Laboratory Instrumental Analysis Introduction to Research Chemistry of Life lecture and laboratory General Chemistry I Cosmos, Earth, and Life Administrative and Service Involvement Chemistry Department Chair (1999-2015 except during sabbaticals) University Budget Advisory Committee (2004-2005, 2013-2015) Academic Performance and Integrity Committee (2019-present) Instructional Resources Committee (2013-2015) Campus Life
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Resident Assistant Professor | International Honors | christian.gerzso@plu.edu | 253-535-7491 | Christian Gerzso was born in Mexico City, where he received his B.A.
of utopia and the State, from the early 20th century until today. He has examined the ways in which British literary writers theorized their intellectual labor at the turn of the 20th century, amid the consolidation of mass and commodity culture. In the context of post-revolutionary Mexico, his scholarship explores how the avant-garde group known as Estridentismo collaborated with State institutions, however briefly and with mixed results, in order to try to bring into being the utopian projects
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