Theatre and Applied Theatre faculty, student and alumni news 2014-15.
News, Media and Stories
Verna Ourada, PT, PhD held a poster presentation at Pacific University Board of Trustees Meeting,
Chavez' research, conducted with colleague Mary Bridgeman of Rutgers University, supports the belief that Febuxostat is an effective alternative drug for patients who are intolerant of a therapy known as allopurinol.
The Interprofessional Dizziness and Balance Clinic is a new clinic run by PT, Audiology, and Optometry.
Jeffery Kawaguchi received the award for “Digital Recording of Athletic Training Student Performance: Transforming Education Understanding.”
The presentation was a combination lecture and demonstration on what physical therapy is and some of the interventions physical therapists do.
A 29-year career culminating in the Office of the Surgeon General started with optometry school at Pacific. “Pacific was, and still is, a small school where, instead of being a number, you can become an individual," said Col. John Pyle OD '64. "I had a really good time there.”
Dr. Boykoff's perspective has recently appeared in The Nation, The Boston Globe, Al Jazeera America and the Boston Herald.
Students in Pacific's editing and publishing minor wrote, edited, published and marketed a collection of stories. "Write at the Crossroads" is available for purchase, with proceeds benefiting a local nonprofit.
2015 marks 151 years since Pacific University alumni first began formal methods of keeping in tou