Media Mentions

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Oct. 31, 2025 | The online journal of the Oregon Music Educators Association, the Oregon Music Educator, ran Pacific University's retirement feature on Professor Emeritus of Music Michael Burch-Pesses, who retired following the 2024-25 academic year. The story is on page 55 of the issue.
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Oct. 22, 2025 | The Forest Grove News-Times published a preview of the screening of OPB's "Uncovering Boarding Schools" documentary on the Forest Grove Campus on October 28. The documentary touches on the university and the Forest Grove Indian Training School, which operated between 1880 and 1885.
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Oct. 20, 2025 | Master of Fine Arts In Writing professor Leila Chatti was the focus on an interview in Adi Magazine about her latest book, "Wildness Before Something Sublime," and how her relationship to writing changed when it become the sole basis for her income.
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Oct. 10, 2025 | The Forest Grove News-Times ran a story on two recent large federal grants awarded to the university: The $1.36 million Department of Education TRIO Student Support Services Grant and the $1.7 million National Science Foundation Noyce STEM Storytellers Program.
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Oct. 1, 2025 | Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Affairs Sarah Phillips talked networking for jobs and support for Pacific students from Hawai'i with Honolulu Magazine for its 2026 Hawai'i College Guide. “You have to network people, have to know somebody and call somebody, and having a huge network of alumni—of tens and thousands of alumni—is incredibly helpful for that.”
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Sept. 30, 2025 | The Forest Grove News-Times covered a joint Children's Farmers Market event, a partnership between Adelante Mujeres and Pacific's Early Learning Community. The third annual event gives children the chance to experience a farmer's market as if they were the consumer.
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Sept. 24, 2025 | Pacific University Pharmacy Professor provided his expertise of acetaminophen to the Oregon Radio News Network after the White House's announcement of an alleged connection between autism and the use of the drug by pregnant women.