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Alex Marchbanks smiling
Alex (Bing) Marchbanks '14, SLP '18 found her passion for speech-language pathology at Pacific. A scholarship funded by donors helped turn her dreams to reality as she completes her master's degree this spring.
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What can you do for the world with just a little time? Find ideas from the Pacific University Center for Civic Engagement.
Alumna and financial advisor Noel Pacarro Brown MAT '05 and College of Business Professor Laura McNally offer tips for managing your money in the short and long term.
A hard-earned lesson opened the door to future success for alumna Kathleen (O'Malley) Celmins '04.
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Trustee and attorney Matthew Lowe provides simple guidance to get started creating your will.
DeBois family
Erica DeBois MAT '97 may be a teacher, but even she struggles with the educational choices available for her children. Find advice from alumni and College of Education on choosing a school.
Working in the Sonora Desert water drops.
Bruce '68 and Judy Bishop '68 dedicate down time in retirement to getting active in their community.
At Pacific, caring for student-athletes is a community affair. Before any football players stepped onto Ledbetter Field for practices, they received care from dental hygiene and optometry students.   
Running Rickshaw in Action
Several years ago, Patching watched his oldest daughter drive a cart behind miniature horses, and the image struck a spark. Why push a stroller when he could pull a cart? That image became the impetus for his running rickshaw, the first of two projects Patching completed as a two-time Berglund Center Fellow at Pacific University.
Little Handfuls food
Dustin and Darcy wanted their children to feel the textures of their food and experience the tastes of natural foods from steamed broccoli and cauliflower to raspberries and blackberries. Little Handfuls Organic, a start-up baby food company that started as weekend experiments in their kitchen and today sells organic baby and toddler food products at grocery stores like New Seasons and Whole Foods throughout the Portland area.

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