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Lecturer - Percussion | Music | takekama@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Dr.

Assistant Vice President for Student Life Strategic Initiatives and Assessment | Division of Student Life | jes.takla@plu.edu | 253-535-7597

Professor Emeritus of Physics | Department of Physics | tangka@plu.edu | 253-535-7539 | K.T.

Professor of Psychology | Department of Psychology | taylormg@plu.edu | 253-535-7657

Poetry, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Brian Teare, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Companion Grasses and Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. His most recent publications are a diptych of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage: the 2022 Nightboat reissue of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and the fall 2023 publication of Poem Bitten by a Man. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he’s now an Associate Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.

IT Asset Management Specialist | PLU Help Desk | teas@plu.edu | 253-535-7454

Professor Emeritus | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | Paul Tegels retired in May 2023.

Professor Emeritus | Music | Paul Tegels retired in May 2023.

Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | athompson@plu.edu | Alicia grew up in the state of Maine and moved to Tacoma to attend ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, earning a bachelor’s degree in Social Work.

Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation | Recreational Sports | thompsrw@plu.edu | 253-535-7495 | Robert Thompson arrived at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø in August of 2013 as the Coordinator of Recreation and was elevated to Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation prior to the 2017-2018 academic year. Under Thompson’s leadership, student participation in intramural programming has increased by 40 percent through innovative marketing to students and partnerships with several departments on campus.