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Process and Opening/Closing Procedures Oversee and organize Extended Stay Housing & Early Arrival Housing during summer Update and maintain department websites Student Life Responsibilities Participate in the all-residence hall on-call duty rotation with all Community Directors Lower AUC Emergency Building Coordinator PLU Safety Committee  PLUS 100 Instructor Biography Sarah graduated from PLU with degrees in Music and Psychology. While in undergrad, Sarah was a student employee with the offices for

Indies finalist for Short Stories, was featured on NPR, the National Book Critics Circle blog, and was listed by The Root as one of 28 brilliant books by Black authors in 2018. She has a memoir forthcoming with Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Mentor. Workshop and classes in fiction and nonfiction. Good mentors are usually good listeners. As a mentor, I will listen to your expressed intentions and help you consider how to create the story that’s emerging in an early draft. I may suggest reading fiction

Engaged Inquiry 2021 • Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher Award 2019 • Rhetorical Society of America Dissertation Award Professional Memberships/Organizations National Communication Association Rhetoric Society of America Surveillance Studies Network Biography Dr. Marnie Ritchie found the study of communication through collegiate debate at the University of Vermont, where she earned a B.A. in Philosophy in 2011. She then went on to earn a Master’s in Communication and Rhetorical

Dr. Nicky Martin Associate Professor of Kinesiology Phone: 253-535-7372 Email: martin@plu.edu Office Location:Olson Auditorium Professional Education Ph.D., Temple University M.Ed., Temple University B.S., Pacific Lutheran University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Sport and Exercise Psychology Selected Publications Martin, N. (2023). Parent-teacher collaboration is needed to enhance preschooler’s physical Activity: What do we do now? Early Childhood Education Journal. Martin, N., & Hultman, R

, responsible for future growth opportunities of a $5B portfolio and also led a team of 250 executives, engineers and technologists developing new concepts and programs for Network Centric Operations. Earlier in his career, Sweberg was an early pioneer in commercial space and was responsible for several programs and payloads that successfully flew on the Space Shuttle.  He helped win the multi-$B Space Station (ISS) program. He was a member of the AIAA Technical Committee for Space Processing for many years

Department of Earth Sciences was realized in 1970 and the first major graduated that year; he is here with us tonight – Roger Hansen. Since 1970, more than 230 majors and minors have graduated from the department and nearly every student that has passed through the department has taken one or more classes from Brian. Over the years, Brian has taught a broad range of science courses to both geology majors and non-majors. In the early years, he taught all the courses! For the few courses that were outside

and wellness, stewardship for student populations in juvenile detention centers and drug rehabilitation facilities, and creating alongside youth in the foster care system. Their scholarship unpacks how acts of education, maturation, and coming-of-age intersect with theatre and public performance in the early twentieth century United States, and unravels queer readings of teaching and learning as mechanisms of citizen-making in the theatrical past. Rizzardi hopes to use theatre scholarship to

is best known for his research in Egypt including excavations in the Valley of the Kings. He has led many expeditions and is the author of nine books and numerous scientific and popular articles on archaeological subjects. For several years, Ryan worked closely with world-renowned Norwegian explorer, archaeologist and writer, the late Thor Heyerdahl, whose open-minded approach to the topic of early human use of the ocean was a hallmark of his remarkable research. Ryan is also a Research Associate

Biography Samuel Torvend teaches courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals. He has taught in PLU’s International Honors Program and has led student and regent study tours in Rome and central Italy. Since 2005, he has led faculty, staff, and student workshops on the liberal arts and higher education, published

time for the now defunct retail book chain Borders Books and Music (whose demise he rightly predicted as early as 2000). Borders was an excellent learning experience and Scott has the book and music collection to prove it. After taking some time away from school, Scott realized that he wasn’t very good at anything else, and so, graduate school beckoned. He first attended the University of New Mexico, where he earned an M.A. in English Literature and Language in 2006. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in