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Nancy Miller Gomez MFA '17 helps high school students discover their voices and the power of prose through the Rising Voices program in Santa Cruz County, California.

The program's new stackable certificate model reduces tuition and increases flexibility to support the future of Oregon's nonprofit sector.

The 51ºÚÁÏ Alumni Association's 2026 Emerging Leader Award Winner, Pabita Dhungel MS '19 sees vision research and advocacy as mutual pursuits.

The second accredited master's program in dental therapy in the U.S. will train a new tier of professionals to bridge the gaps in oral care in rural and underserved communities.

Partnerships with Chemeketa and Umpqua community colleges will provide students at those schools with a direct path to Pacific's graduate pharmacy program.

The Oregon Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation names the Pacific's audiology program, and its Pacific EarClinic, as its 2025 Provider of the Year, recognizing Pacific's commitment to providing hearing care to low-income patients.

Speech-language pathology professors Kerry Mandulak and Jordan Tinsley DHSc '25 experienced the impact of advocacy as part of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association's Capitol Hill Day in Washington, D.C.

Pacific leads all private institutions in the Pacific Northwest in research and development spending and ranks among the top private institutions on the West Coast.

Pacific is one of seven institutions nationwide participating in the College Autism Network's Autism-Inclusive Campus Designation Pilot Program, designed to make education more accessible to autistic and neurodiverse students.

Students in 51ºÚÁÏ's graduate health professions programs pursue education & career purpose through the military's Health Professions Scholarship Program.

The designation by U.S. News & World Report comes after Pacific received high marks from the Carnegie Foundation for accessibility and research.

The outgoing dean of 51ºÚÁÏ's College of Optometry, Fraser Horn '00, OD '04 will spend the next two years developing an optometry program on the Emerald Isle.