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Aug. 4, 2025 | As part of its Readers' Choice awards, the Forest Grove News-Times profiled Early Learning Community lead first and second-grade teacher Aja Appel MAT '07. She has been part of the ELC staff since it opened in 2008. “I was eager to return and be part of something meaningful,” she said. “Joining the ELC teaching team felt like coming home.”

Aug. 2, 2025 | Politics & Government Professor Jules Boykoff appeared on "The Current" on CBC Radio to provide analysis on the costs to the city of Vancouver as it prepares to host matches for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. "Costs are increasing city after city, and these cities are facing real fiscal pressure."

July 31, 2025 | Bill Hefner, associate dean of clinical programs and professor in Pacific's College of Optometry, discusses ways to prevent and treat dry eye with Everyday Northwest on KOIN-TV.

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.

July 24, 2025 | The Women In Optometry website profiles the new dean of the ������Ƶ 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."

July 19, 2025 | Hawaii News Now (KGMB-TV/KHNL-TV) visited ������Ƶ'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.

July 17. 2025 | As part of Pacific's annual trip to Hawai'i for 808 to 503, President Jenny Coyle '90, OD '93, MS '00 talked with Michael Perry on the "Mike & The Posse" morning show on KSSK-FM (92.3) in Honolulu to discuss the university and our connections to Hawai'i.

July 16, 2025 | President Jenny Coyle '90, OD '93, MS '00 and Board of Trustees member Gary Pacarro '74 talked ������Ƶ 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.

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.

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.