Michael Burch-Pesses has been selected by the John Philip Sousa Foundation to serve on the Sudler Silver Scroll Committee.
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Kestrels are disappearing worldwide — except in Forest Grove, where they thrive. Through the Pacific University undergraduate research program, one professor and his students are studying the healthy population to find out how they can protect the species elsewhere.
Pacific University Associate Professor Jules Boykoff has provided extensive commentary and analysis on the 2014 winter games in Sochi, Russia.
Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director & Master Teacher of the String Project, Dijana Ihas, accepted to three-year research seminar.
Nancy Ann Neudauer, Mathematics and Computer Science, spent three weeks in December and January this year teaching graduate students at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town, South Africa. Her experience was made possible through a Fulbright Specialist Award. The institute prepares African students for research and teaching careers in the mathematical sciences.
Pacific University associate professor Nancy Ann Neudauer has received a Fulbright Specialist Award to teach at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dawn Salgado, assistant professor of psyghology received the prestigious Mamie Phipps Clark Research Grant Award from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology.
Kevin Johnson, chemistry professor and director of the School of Natural Sciences within Pacific University's College of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant in the amount of $65,000.
Dori Carlson OD '89 has been named the third recipient of the Kamelia Massih Prize for a Distingu
“From the time I was in junior high, I always knew I wanted to teach,” says Michael Burch-Pesses, Pacific’s director of bands.
Now, a few decades and many musical milestones later, he’s still living his dream.