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and adjunct professor with universities across the United States and in Europe. Mr. Pass has worked as a volunteer coach with children in various Department of Defense Youth organizations.  Additionally, he works with Veterans in the Pacific Northwest as they transition to civilian careers. Mr. Pass continued his education with a Master of Arts in Social Science & Middle Eastern Studies from PLU as well as an MBA also from Pacific Lutheran University.  He has additional graduate work in Education

Bachelor’s of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory. He also earned a BA in environmental studies from Oberlin College and is still an environmentalist and advocate for sustainability. In terms of research, Dr. Lader studies how musicians form motor memories and specifically the effects of practice duration, frequency, and role of auditory and motor coactivation in the brain. Outside of neuroscience and psychology, Dr. Lader continues to explore the value of philosophical dialogue in the music classroom

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-1945 American Literature Contemporary Canadian Literature Gender and Queer Studies Comparative Ethnic Studies Cultural Memory Studies Accolades Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, presented my accepted paper “London Calling: Dislocated Kinship and Transatlanticism in Baldwin’s Just Above My Head (1979)” at this year’s International Baldwin Conference in Montpellier, France Biography Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines

University of Colorado Boulder and holds three Master’s degrees—in piano, harpsichord and theory pedagogy—and a graduate performance diploma in piano, all from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Her undergraduate studies took place at the University of the Pacific, where she was the recipient of a prestigious Presser Award and earned her degree summa cum laude. Following her studies at UOP, Lark lived in France for three years where she attended the Conservatoire National de

Memberships/Organizations National Association of Teachers of Singing Early Music America Biography Soprano Holly Boaz enjoys a varied career in opera, oratorio, chamber music, and small ensembles. Career highlights include appearances with Seattle Symphony, Symphony Tacoma, Hartford Symphony, Seattle Opera, Pacific MusicWorks, Music of Remembrance, the Russian Chamber Music Foundation, Vancouver Early Music Festival, Connecticut Opera, The Aspen Music Festival, the Emerald Ensemble, Early Music Tacoma

; co-presented with Harris, N. R., & Plascencia Saldana, B.], Las Vegas, NV (2022, November) Imagine Otherwise Professional Development Seminar, Cultivating critical creativity [Seminar session], Tacoma, WA (2022, June/July; 2021, April) NASPA Western Regional Conference, Imagine otherwise: Advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education through critical creativity [Conference session; co-presented with Hambrick, A.], San Francisco, CA (2021, November) NASPA Western Regional Conference

privacy curtains in relationship to hand hygiene: Exploring behaviors and bacteria, San Diego, CA (2019) Juanita Warman Nursing Excellence Conference, Dirty little secrets: High touch surfaces within the healthcare environment , Tacoma, WA (2020) Virtual AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo, Do contaminated instruments pose a risk to clean instruments in a set? , Anahelm, CA (2020) Virtual Madigan Research Day, Interim Results: Ultraviolet Disinfection in the Clinical Environment, Tacoma, WA (2020

. Cheng. "SMOQ: a tool for predicting the absolute residue-specific quality of a single protein model with support vector machines." BMC Bioinformatics Vol. 15, 2014: 120. R. Cao, Z. Wang, J. Cheng. "Designing and evaluating the MULTICOM protein local and global model quality prediction methods in the CASP10 experiment." BMC Structural Biology Vol. 14, 2014: 13. Z. Wang, R. Cao, K. Taylor, A. Briley, C. Caldwell, J. Cheng. "The Properties of Genome Conformation and Spatial Gene Interaction and

communities of methane-oxidizing bacteria in Lake Washington sediment, focusing on techniques allowing for estimating population sizes of different subgroups of these bacteria. Since her arrival at PLU in the Fall of 2002, Dr. Auman has primarily taught introductory biology and microbiology courses. As a microbial ecologist, Dr. Auman’s professional interests focus on studying microbial communities in natural environments with the goal of understanding how the microbes contribute to global processes and