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For Mike Wilhoit ’77, food is business. Wilhoit’s family has been farming hazelnuts in Oregon for more than 70 years, and today, he is a leader in agricultural development in the state.

The Spirit Mountain Community Fund in Oregon has awarded 51����'s EyeClinic Cornelius a capital grant of $30,000 to help build out a new clinic within the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center's new Wellness Center in Cornelius.

A study conducted by 51���� faculty identifies causes of visual and physical discomfort in some people when they watch 3D video content.

A group of Japanese optometrists are saying “arigatou” to 51���� with gifts for the College of Optometry.

"At 51���� I found what I needed," says author Mai Lon Gittelsohn MFA '13.

51���� has named alumnus Stanley J. Yamane '65, OD '66, the 2012 recipient of the University's Kamelia Massih Prize for a Distinguished Optometrist.

Pacific sophomore Charlotte Basch started re-writing her people's history when she was 12. Now, she is a leader in the Clatsop-Nehalem Tribe and is studying ways to help bring her heritage back to life.

Award honors an outstanding optometry alumnus or alumna for care in serving both patients and communities.

Endowment will fund the Kamelia Massih Prize for a Distinguished Optometrist.

The last time Clinton Gruber '47 saw his B-24 bomber he was falling away from it, 18,000 feet above Germany. But not until 35 years later, through a chance encounter on the Internet and the kindness of strangers in two distant countries, would he learn the complete story of the incident that nearly took his life that fateful day of Dec. 1, 1943.

Some 520 51���� students and alumni served in World War II. About 31, roughly equivalent to an entire senior class at the time, never came home.

It had been barely a year since Calvin Van Pelt finished his freshman year at 51���� when he landed at Utah Beach on D-Day, the great invasion that was the beginning of the liberation of Europe from Nazi domination.