Alumna Cami Ostman, an author, writing coach, and therapist who has dedicated her life to helping others tell and understand their own personal story, was featured in an SPU Voices Podcast in 2019. She is the author of the memoir Second Wind: One Woman’s Midlife Quest to Run Seven Marathons on Seven Continents, and the co-editor of two anthologies of memoirs. She has coached hundreds of writers of all ages through the completion of projects varying in length from short poems to very, very long books. She has a passion for story. As a therapist, she received her MS in Marriage and Family Therapy from SPU in 2000.

Mailing Services is now operating on summer hours: Monday–Friday, 8 a.m.–4 p.m., with no mail and package delivery or pickup. You are welcome to come by Mailing Services to pick up your departmental mail and packages.

• If your department will NOT have anyone pick up your department’s mail this summer, please contact Mailing Services at 206-281-2077 or mailing@spu.edu. (This is so we won’t try to contact the department if a lot of mail collects during the summer.)
• If your department will be closed for more than a week, please let Mailing Services know so staff can make arrangements. If your department receives a large delivery, we would store the delivery or contact Safety and Security to be let into the department.

The Faculty/Staff Bulletin is published weekly during the academic year, and every other week during the summer. The Bulletin is now on a summer schedule. The next deadline is Thursday, Aug. 11. The next issue will be published Monday, Aug. 15. If you have information or event news, send it as soon as possible with an image or graphic to Bulletin editor Tracy Norlen at fsb-editor@spu.edu. Submissions may be edited for clarity. (Weekly publication resumes Sept. 6).

Peg Achterman, associate professor of communication, was recognized along with 50 other educators as a recipient of the @CourseHero 2022 Teaching Grant for Digital Learning. The $2,000 grant is designed to support a wide range of faculty-submitted “dream projects,” and Peg intends to use the funds for special equipment and software for the multimedia introductory course. Congratulations to Peg — and her JRN 1000 students!

A paper co-authored by John Douglass, assistant professor of biology, was published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences in June 2022. This study investigates the neuroscience of susceptibility to obesity.

Please join the Office of Human Resources in welcoming Toni Mudd, director of enrollment SLATE administration, University Communications.