News, Media and Stories | Faculty Accomplishments

Asani Seawell, co-director of the health psychology track, was featured on The Fragmented Whole, a podcast about how the brokenness in ourselves is reflected in the world around us. 
Ellen Bass’ forthcoming book, Indigo, has just been released from Copper Canyon Press.
Professor Amber Buhler
Amber Buhler, a Pacific University pharmacy professor, tells a KOIN podcast audience about the origins of quinine, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and why nobody knows yet if they're effective against the novel coronavirus.
Rebecca Reisch, physical therapy professor, published a medical study on interventions for overactive bladders. 
Deke Gundersen, sustainability professor, was called as a witness in a Portland climate change case.
Shereen Khoja, computer science professor, was featured on The Immigrant Story, a website dedicated to telling immigrant stories and fostering empathy. 
Jules Boykoff, politics and government professor, published an opinion piece on coronavirus and the Olympics on NBC.
Dorianne Laux was recently selected as a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2019).
Poet Dorianne Lux
Pacific University is pleased to announce that Dorianne Laux will be serving on the Board of Chancellors for the Academy of American Poets. This is a distinction shared by just 115 poets since the board was formed in 1946 and includes fellow MFA faculty members Ellen Bass and Kwame Dawes.
Frank Gaspar's new book, The Poems of Renata Ferreira, was recently published by Tagus Press.

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