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Register now for Spring 2023 Intramural Leagues! Flag football begins mid-February, and 5v5 basketball, tennis, and soccer will also be here before you know it.
Ballot box walk in Trombley Square
The 2022 midterm election will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 8 and there are multiple resources on campus to ensure your voting experience is as easy as possible. 
Pacific Votes! The Fall 2022 Pledge is now live. You take the pledge, we do the work!
Nancy Murakami
Nancy Murakami may spend most of her time in Oregon, but the Pacific University social work professor is never far from trauma’s front lines. 
VOTE signs in front of Trombley Square
September 20 is National Voter Registration Day, and there’s no better time to confirm that your voter registration is up-to-date.
Wapato replanting
A long-lost seasonal lake that was a center of life for Native Americans who lived in the Tualatin Valley two centuries ago is slowly regaining its form, thanks to the efforts of members of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and volunteers from Pacific University.
Les AuCoin stands in front of the Portland skyline with Mt Hood in the background
The collected papers of Pacific alumnus and former U.S. Rep. Les AuCoin are now available to researchers, students and others at the Tran Library at Pacific University.
Richard Lapchick
Noted author, ethicist and activist Richard Lapchick comes to Pacific University’s Forest Grove Campus to discuss “The Power of Business & Sport to Bring About Positive Social Change” in a free public lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 6 p.m.
Kyle Degman OD ’22 Receives Student Award
Kyle Degman ’19, OD ’22 was presented the 2022 Pacific University College of Optometry Vision Development Award for Excellence in Vision Therapy.
Black Lives Matter demonstration
Pacific University Psychology Professors Mike Christopher and Matt Hunsinger didn’t anticipate that their research would so closely track the headlines. It just turned out that way. And now they're finding that work has particular resonance as America grapples with questions of inherent racism in the systems of justice and law enforcement.

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