Media Mentions

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July 29, 2025 | The Oregonian profiled Thủy Trần OD '94, who will have an autobiographical play about her life as a refugee from 1970s Vietnam and making a home in the U.S. "Belonging: A Memoir" will be performed on Saturday, Aug. 2, at Portland's Winningstad Theatre. In addition to her optometric practice, Trần is a member of Oregon House of Representatives.
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July 24, 2025 | The Women In Optometry website profiles the new dean of the Pacific University College of Optometry, Bisant Labib. "Everyone's heart is in the right place (at Pacific), and that drive my decision to make such a big move."
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July 19, 2025 | Hawaii News Now (KGMB-TV/KHNL-TV) visited Pacific University's 808 to 503 new student orientation event in Honolulu as incoming students and families stat the transition from high school to college and Hawai'i to the mainland.
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July 16, 2025 | President Jenny Coyle '90, OD '93, MS '00 and Board of Trustees member Gary Pacarro '74 talked Pacific University and its Hawai'i connections on HI Now Daily on Hawaii News Now (KGMB-TV/KHNL-TV) in Honolulu. The Pacific segments starts 15:20 into the video.
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July 3, 2025 | Tim Lantz of "Portland's Afternoon News" on KXL-FM profiled the undergraduate business "Empowering Communities Through Student Leadership & Technology Innovation" internship program, which pairs students with local businesses to evaluate their digital presence.
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July 2, 2025 | The Forest Grove News-Times chronicled Pacific receiving a twin of the Boxer II statue, an exact copy of the statue cast in the early 1980s. The twin, also sculpted by Pat Costello, was given to his parents and gifted to the university in June.