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, Since Dr. Finitsis is an import from Greece, it is only fair that he responds in kind by taking LUTES to Greece with his J-Term course. Up to the present, he has led over a hundred PLU students to study away in the Mediterranean. In 2018 he celebrated in style the tenth anniversary of the student driven biblical/visual interpretation competition entitled: PLU Hebrew Idol. He is proudly teaching in PLU’s General Education, Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies, International Honors, and the newly

student with ASD and severe problem behavior." Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2019: doi:10.1007/s10803-019-03888-3. Knight, V., Wright, J., Wilson, K., & Hooper, A. "Teaching block-based coding of robots to high school students with autism spectrum disorder and challenging behavior." Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 2019: doi:10.1007/s10803-019-04033-w. Biography John Wright teaches special education methods courses, as well as courses in assistive technology, autism, and

Orchestra and All university Orchestra. She has served as Assistant Conductor of Tchaikovsky Music College of Yerevan, Armenia, and worked with youth orchestras, including Warner Middle School Orchestra, MI, National Music Festival Orchestra, MD, and student orchestras at Eastern Music Festival, NC. Ms. Mahyar’s broad conducting experience includes working with professional and community orchestras such as Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, MI, Marquette Symphony Orchestra, MI, and Jackson Symphony, MI

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

de la Educación." University Press and LOM Ediciones 2014: "Rosario Ferré Versus Rosario Ferré: el prefacio como centro de disputa." Ciberletras 32 July 2014: Accolades Wang Center Student-Faculty Research Grant, Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, Pacific Lutheran University, for the project “Jewish Uruguayan Memories at the Crossroads of Childhood and Old Age” conducted with student Riley Dolan in Montevideo, Uruguay (Jan. 2019) Division of Humanities Special Recognition

elevating student agency and sense-making across content areas. If you need to meet with me, please schedule an appointment through email. There is a physical calendar of my available hours on the door of my office! 

the History of Mexico, and Slavery, Pirates, and Dictators in the Caribbean. She has participated in Student/Faculty research, earning an S. Erving Severtson Research Fellowship – Forest Foundation Undergraduate Research Program for 2016-2017 with history major Michael Diambri, to research the role of alcohol in the lives of the Beat Generation, particularly Allen Ginsberg.

, invitation only, student-faculty research and applied internship program for highly motivated students. MediaLab students are engaged in activities that include public relations, advertising, documentary filmmaking, journalism, marketing and research, graphic design, photography and much more. Under Dr. Wells’ direction, MediaLab has earned national and international recognitions, including two National Broadcasting Society Awards, three Broadcast Education Awards, three college division Emmy Award

community in our program and engage in learning experiences that most MSW programs don’t have. Our study away requirement is just one example. We also are student-focused in our program design to help set students up for success.

achieve this goal, I try to teach students to apply the material in their own lives and become good critical consumers of information. I believe that education is not something that can be handed to students during the course of their college careers. Education is an active process that requires commitment from both student and professor. Ultimately, students need to be responsible for their own learning and professors encourage and challenge them to grow.  It is important to me that my students to be