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Undergraduate Student Senate (USS) is accepting applications for executive board positions through March 10 for 2022-2023. Ballots, along with candidate photos and statements will be emailed to students. Elections will be held online with voting beginning at 9 .m. March 15, and concluding at 5 p.m. March 16.
Students on quad
Pacific University students, staff and faculty are invited to participate in the 2022 Diversity and Equity Campus Climate Survey.
Math Professor Nancy Neudauer
An article, co-authored by Pacific Professor Nancy Ann Neudauer on the life of esteemed mathematician Grace Alele-Williams, was published in the March 2022 edition of Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
The university continues to follow the guidance of state public health officials. Masks will become optional in most university spaces, while vaccination, monitoring and testing protocols remain in place.
Soccer players in The Wolves
Pacific University’s Theatre Department is proud to present its Spring 2022 production, The Wolves, written by Sarah DeLappe and directed by Jacob Coleman. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.
Zach Meskell '15
Believe it or not, his career so far is going just as Zach Meskell '15 drew it up: Pacific, improv comedy, Harvard Law, and clerkships with federal judges.
Two rafts rest on the bank near a tent at sunset on the river.
Tube through the winter scene at Mt. Hood with ALAS, raft through the rapids of the Santiam River during spring break, perfect kayak rolls at the Forest Grove Aquatic Center, or scale indoor boulders at a rock gym in Portland. View these opportunities and others on the OP calendar before trips are filled! 
Five optometry alumni at Copper Mt. ski retreat.
Five alumni from Pacific University’s College of Optometry Class of 1972 celebrate their 50th graduation anniversary with a skiing trip.
Dan Tremaglio MFA ’15 published his first book of fiction, Half an Arc & Artifacts & Then the Other Half.
Clair Costello ’79 has retired from teaching at Riverside High School in Boardman, Ore., after 37 years.

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