Media Mentions

June 12, 2026 | As the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off in North America, The Guardian talked with Politics & Government Professor Jules Boykoff about the ideological juxtaposition of the U.S. and Iran. “Despite FIFA’s fever dreams that this could be an apolitical World Cup, it is the most politically combustible World Cup ever, and the Iran-United States-Israel war sits right at the center of it.”

June 8, 2026 | Politics & Government Professor Jules Boykoff lent his expertise to a Politico story discussing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's relationship with the sports world in the spotlight of the NBA Finals and the FIFA World Cup. "Engaging with the sphere of sports for politicans can be more politically effective by being less explicitly political."

June 6, 2026 | Melissa Heffner, director of Pacific's Bachelor of Music Therapy programs, lends her expertise to an OPB story on a Portland-area yoga studio offering doom metal yoga. "It was different than I thought. Because anything attached to metal, I feel like it's going to be screaming music. That's not what this is."

June 5, 2026 | Psychology Professor Heide Island talked with the Whidbey News-Times in Oak Harbor, Washington, about her new book on river otters, "Romp! A Journey Through The Natural History of Otters and Why They Matter," which follows a family of otters on Whidbey Island.

June 5, 2026 | Politics and Government Professor Jules Boykoff is quoted by the San Francisco Chronicle on the Bay Area's apparent apathy around hosting World Cup match this summer.

June 1, 2026 | The Hillsboro (Ore.) News-Times previews an intergenerational art event taking place on June 6 at the Hillsboro Brookwood Library run in part by Camryn Pennington OT '26, who is an intern with Washington County's Department of Disability, Aging and Veterans Services.

May 19, 2026 | Fox 13 Seattle journeys with a group of scientists, including Pacific Professor of Psychology Heide Island, to research returning sea otter populations on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

May 19, 2026 | On the day of Oregon's 2026 primary election, KXL-FM in Portland spoke with Kai Markle '27, student ambassador with the Pacific Votes program in the McCall Center for Civic Engagement, about his work to get his fellow Pacific students to embrace politics and vote. Clip includes segment from May 19 newscast alone with a nine-minute interview posted on the KXL website.

May 18, 2026 | Peru's Diario Jornada previews a children's healthcare initiative in the district of Vinchos, a collaboration with the Club Social Nueve de Diciembre and the Smile Across the Andes Foundation. The volunteer team will be led by Pacific Dental Health Sciences Professor Wilber Ramirez Rodriguez '10.

May 15, 2026 | Vision Monday carries the announcement that College of Optometry Professor Graham Erickson '88, OD '90, receiving the university's Massih Prize for a Distinguished Optometrist.