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  • Assistant Professor | Department of Chemistry | aboysen@plu.edu | 253-535-7596 | Dr.

    Organic Geochemistry Mass Spectrometry Based 'Omics Microbial Oceanography Selected Presentations 2022 Marine Microbes Gordon Research Seminar and Gordon Research Conference, Multiple choice: the metabolic consequences of nitrogen source switching in Synechococcus, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (May 28 - June 3) 2022 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Dissolved organic nitrogen uptake and use by natural microbial communities and model picocyanobacteria, Virtual (February 24 - March 4) Dissertations Symposium in

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor | Department of Biology | tdodson@plu.edu | 253-535-7004

    National Meeting & Exposition, “Analysis of post-transcriptional modifications in tRNAs associated with hyperglycemia in diabetes-associated cells.”, Atlanta, GA (August 22-26, 2021) Selected Articles Nathan C. Wamer, Chase N. Morse, Jennifer N. Gradient, Taylor A. Dodson, Eric A. Carlson, and Erin G. Prestwich. "Comparison of Small Biomolecule Ionization and Fragmentation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using Common MALDI Matrices." Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Vol. 34, 2023: 355

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  • Lecturer - Jazz, Improvisation | Music | kate.olson@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Kate Olson is an improvising saxophonist and music educator based in Seattle, WA.

    Kate Olson Lecturer - Jazz, Improvisation Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: kate.olson@plu.edu Website: http://www.kateplayssax.com/ Professional Biography Education BA, Music (Jazz Emphasis), University of Wyoming MM, Improvisation, University of Michigan Biography Kate Olson is an improvising saxophonist and music educator based in Seattle, WA. Since moving to Seattle in 2010, she has done her best to infiltrate the local, regional and international improvised music scenes. She can be heard

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  • Lecturer | Music | milanejc@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Award-winning soprano Jessica Robins Milanese recent performances include the world premier of the song cycle, Turns of a Girl; a work composed for Ms.

    the baton of George Shangrow. Other recent performances include Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate motet with the Northwest Sinfonietta, Orff’s Carmina Burana and Handel’s Messiah with the Tacoma Symphony, Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Kirkland Choral Society, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Orchestra Seattle as well as the opportunity to revisit one of her favorite characters, Susanna, (Le Nozze Di Figaro) with Tacoma Opera. On the opera stage, Susanna, (The Marriage of Figaro), is one of Ms. Milanese

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  • Department Chair of Sociology and Criminal Justice | Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice | mcclouls@plu.edu | 253-535-7342

    Culture and Mass Media Accolades Faculty Excellence Award in Advising 2015-2016, Pacific Lutheran University Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award Recipient 2015-2016, Pacific Lutheran University The Fragile American: Hardship and Financial Troubles in the 21st Century

  • Professor of Religion and Culture | Religion | suzanne.crawford@plu.edu | 253-535-8107 | Suzanne Crawford O’Brien’s area of specialization is Religion and Culture, with emphases in Native American religious traditions, and comparative studies of minority religious communities in North America, including religion and healthcare, gender and ethnicity, and religion and popular culture.

    Press, 2014), Religion and Healing in Native America: Pathways for Renewal (Praeger, 2008), Native American Religious Traditions (Prentice Hall and Laurence King, 2007), and the three-volume American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2005). Publications in scholarly journals include “Talking Place: Ritual and Reciprocity at Holy Wells and Mass Stones in the Republic of Ireland,” (Journal of Ritual Studies); “Well, Water, Rock: Holy Wells, Mass Rocks, and Reconciling Identity in

  • Lecturer | Music | houstojc@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | A versatile artist, Janeanne Houston has sung the major oratorios from Bach to Verdi, and many symphonic, contemporary works, world premieres, and operas.

    Orchestra, Tacoma Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, and Eugene Symphony with whom she performed the Mater Gloriosa in the Oregon premiere of Mahler’s 8th Symphony. Other favorite roles in the symphonic repertoire include Verdi’s Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Brahms’ Requiem, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. Her recent opera roles have been Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Lia in Debussy’s L’Enfant Prodigue, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Countess Almaviva

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  • Professor Emeritus | Communication, Media & Design Arts | Writer.

    host. On-air reporter. Author. Commentator. Educator. In a career spanning more than two decades, Robert Marshall Wells, Ph.D., has worked in multiple mass media roles. Dr. Wells, an Associate Professor of Communication, has shared his unique blend of skills and experiences with Pacific Lutheran University students since 2003. Dr. Wells teaches courses in writing, reporting, editing, media studies and ethics. He is also the Co-Founder of and Faculty Adviser to MediaLab at PLU, an award-winning

  • Assistant Director of Communications | Marketing & Communications | mhines@plu.edu | 253-535-7059 | For over a decade, MacKenzie has led numerous successful campaigns, from annual giving at a university to promoting local arts education programming, advocating for educational policy and research, and increasing access to evidence-based sexual and reproductive health services and resources for Mississippi youth.

    MacKenzie Hines Assistant Director of Communications she/her Phone: 253-535-7059 Email: mhines@plu.edu Status:Working Hybrid Professional Biography Education B.A., Elon University Biography For over a decade, MacKenzie has led numerous successful campaigns, from annual giving at a university to promoting local arts education programming, advocating for educational policy and research, and increasing access to evidence-based sexual and reproductive health services and resources for Mississippi

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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.

    /Organizations American Chemical Society Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society Biography 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.   He has been PI or co-PI on NSF and private foundation grants that have brought approximately $1M

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