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July 14, 2026 | "The benefit of what we're designing, what we're calling the new American collegiate university, is that we will have more resources to offer more for our students, for our faculty, for our alumni," Pacific President Jenny Coyle told KGW-TV in Portland about the impending Pacific/Willamette merger.

July 14, 2026 | The Oregonian tells readers that Pacific President Jenny Coyle and Willamette President Steve Thorsett "hope the combined universities will open up access to a great alumni network and more career pathways for current students, particularly in healthcare, law and education."

July 14, 2026 | "Research on college merger has shown that strategic consolidation can lead to institutional growth, cost savings and improved success. But higher ed experts warn that a successful merger comes long before either institution is in a financial crisis. Willamette and Pacific appear to be heeding that advice," says OPB in its coverage of the Pacific/Willamette merger.

July 14, 2026 | Pacific President Jenny Coyle and Willamette President Steve Thorsett explain the upcoming merger of their two schools to KOBI-TV in Medford, Oregon. "I think one of the great things that makes us such compatible institutions is that we are both adventurous, creative, and adaptive institutions," Thorsett said.

July 4, 2026 | Sarah Bowen, an associate professor in Pacific Graduate Psychology program, discuss the concept of "urge surfing" with the South China Morning Post.

June 22, 2026 | Politics & Government Professor joined OPB's Think Out Loud to discuss the politics of FIFA and the 2026 World Cup being played in North America, as well as his latest book, "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine."

June 14, 2026 | Politics & Government Professor Jules Boykoff talked with Bloomberg This Weekend about the politics of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, and the political tensions between the U.S. and other countries participating in the tournament. Boykoff's interview begins at the 1:25:00 mark of the video.

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."