Dr. Dianne Anderson is the program director of PLNU's Master of Science in General Biology program, and teaches classes at the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to her teaching, she conducts research on student learning of challenging biology concepts. The products of her research, a diagnostic test called the Conceptual Inventory of Natural Selection (CINS) and biology concept cartoons, are used by teachers, researchers, and professors in classrooms across the country.

Courtney Mayer is a practicing designer and educator bringing 25 years of experience to PLNU Art and Design. She has collaborated with businesses, institutions, and organizations to produce strategic design and branding systems across media. Her work focuses on distinguishing, positioning, and raising profiles that build brand loyalty to positively influence perceptions and emotions, leading to desired outcomes.

Lael Corbin is a native San Diegan whose work consists of sculpture, photography, and site-specific installation. His current work has been exploring his interest in workspaces. He views these spaces as a place where the evidence of manufacturing processes, the beauty of raw materials, and the tension between organization and chaos blend together with dreams, fragments of information, memory, and competing timelines to create an experience that is complex and stimulating.

David Adey is a practicing artist and designer. He began his career in graphic design and branding working for clients such as Intel, Pepsi, Nike, Qualcomm, Taylor Guitars, Hasbro, and many others. His art is informed by this experience, and his recent cut-paper works explore the fraught intersection between our physical bodies and the increasingly digitized world they inhabit.

Dr. Butterfield is an experimental psychologist who specializes in social judgment and decision making. He teaches a wide variety of courses, including Cognition and Learning, Research Methods and Statistics I and II, Research in Psychology, and Special Topics in Psychology. Dr. Butterfield has also been a member of the Psychology Department Assessment Committee, the Institutional Review Board (as Chair), and the Intercollegiate Athletics Committee.