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  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Education | School of Education | rizzardi@plu.edu | 301-788-8270 | Jonathan M.

    Embodied & Trauma Informed Instruction Selected Articles Rizzardi, Jonathan M. "The Andreia of Grieving: Rehearsing Heroic Grief on the Ancient Athenian Stage.” ." New England Theatre Journal 33 2022: no 1. Rizzardi, Jonathan M. "Student As Citizen: A Raisin in the Sun and the 20th Century Interdependence of Education Reform and Black Performance." In Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatre, 1950s-1970s–Albee and his Contemporaries, edited by David A. Crespy and Les Gray. New York

  • Associate Director of International Enrollment & Student Services | International Student Services | hjacobson@plu.edu | 253-535-7122

    Heather Jacobson Associate Director of International Enrollment & Student Services Phone: 253-535-7122 Email: hjacobson@plu.edu Office Location:Harstad Hall - Room 112 Website: https://hjacobson.youcanbook.me/ Professional Education M.Ed., Student Development Administration, Seattle University B.A., French and International Affairs, University of Puget Sound Responsibilities Creates and maintains immigration records for all international students. Coordinates New Student Orientation for

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  • Associate Professor of Political Science | Department of Political Science | artimemr@plu.edu | 253-535-7646 | Dr.

    Missouri-St. Louis and is interested in the intersections between new media and political behavior, voting and elections, and the institutions of American government. He lives in Tacoma, WA.

  • Associate Vice President for Hospitality and Retail Services Dining and Culinary Services | Campus Restaurants - Dining at PLU | mcginnem@plu.edu | 253-535-7472 | Erin is Associate Vice President for Hospitality and Retail Services Dining and Culinary Services for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Lutheran University. After receiving her undergraduate degree in English and Economics from Pacific Lutheran University, Erin attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York where she graduated with high honors in 1992. She also completed her MBA, with an emphasis on Hospitality and Tourism, from the University of Guelph.

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  • Lecturer - Composition | Music | dsonntag@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Raised in Minnesota and Wisconsin, Dawn Sonntag received a D.M.A.

    Opera Theater’s 2018 New Opera Works (NOW) festival. Scenes from her opera Coal Creek, which is based on a community of miners and Han natives in east-central Alaska, were performed at the 2019 and 2020 NOW festival. The full opera will be premiered in 2021. Her operatic works have also been performed by ContempOpera Cleveland, at the Hartford Opera Theater’s New in November festival, the Hartford Women Composers’ Festival, and the Opera from Scratch festival in Halifax. Dawn’s choral works and art

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  • AM Retail Operations Manager | Campus Restaurants - Dining at PLU | carriehm@plu.edu | 253-538-5653 | I grew up in a small town on the eastern side of Washington and moved to the Tacoma area when I started school at PLU in 2013.

    restaurants and I fell in love with the staff and atmosphere that this job opened up to me. Now, that I have graduated I am excited that I still get to be a part of this wonderful staff and dinning environment and provide the same experience I got for new students as well.

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  • Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History | Department of History | halvormj@plu.edu | 253-535-8258 | Michael Halvorson teaches business and economic history courses in the Department of History at PLU, as well as classes on innovation and the history of technology.

    , 1985 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Business and Economic History Innovation / Public interest technology History of Computing (Personal Computers) Software Development / Windows Programming Early Modern Europe / Reformation Germany / Lutheranism Tudor England (study abroad) Books Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society, edited by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick. (Chapter 9- "The Help Desk: Changing Images of Product Support in Personal Computing, 1975–1990," Johns

  • Staff Pianist | Music | aboers@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Amy Boers is well known as a collaborative pianist, music director, singer, and church musician. As pianist and collaborator, she currently holds positions at Pacific Lutheran University (staff pianist), Symphony Tacoma (principal keyboard), and Symphony Tacoma Voices (pianist and assistant rehearsal conductor).

    project-based treble ensemble, as well as her vocal collaborations in the studio with local composers and singers. She is currently in the midst of recording vocal tracks for an upcoming album of new arrangements of traditional gospel songs and hymns, as well as new compositions in this genre. When not making music, she loves to garden, cycle, and travel with her family. Most important to her at this time is spending time with her three beloved grandchildren, Adler, Jack, and Holden.

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  • Dr. D. Eugene and Edith Strandness Endowed Professor | Department of Biology | smith@plu.edu | 253-535-7307

    Julie Smith Dr. D. Eugene and Edith Strandness Endowed Professor Phone: 253-535-7307 Email: smith@plu.edu Office Location: Rieke Science Center - 150 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm (On Campus) Thu: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Biology Education Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Mexico State University, 2005 B.A., Biology and English, Saint Ambrose University, 1994 Areas of Emphasis or

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  • Professor of Chemistry | Department of Chemistry | waldowda@plu.edu | 253-535-7533 | Application of Ring Opening Metathesis Polymermization to Polymer Battery Electrolytes and other membranes Use of macro and microphase separation techniques in energy related materials Statics and kinetics of phase separation in multi-component polymer blends both in bulk and as thin films Physical characterization technique include: light scattering optical and atomic force microscopy neutron scattering Monte Carlo techniques Use of metathesis, anionic, and controlled radical synthetic techniques to produce new materials for macro and microphase separation applications Polymer/structure relationships studied via spin-lattice relaxation measurements of local segmental dynamics in polymers Promoting the teaching and learning of research in an undergraduate setting via incorporation of research activities in traditional courses development of Internet resources for undergraduate research an active and externally funded local undergraduate research program Incorporation of information technology in lecture and laboratory settings .

    Battery Electrolytes and other membranes Use of macro and microphase separation techniques in energy related materials Statics and kinetics of phase separation in multi-component polymer blends both in bulk and as thin films Physical characterization technique include: light scattering optical and atomic force microscopy neutron scattering Monte Carlo techniques Use of metathesis, anionic, and controlled radical synthetic techniques to produce new materials for macro and microphase separation