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Dan Vaughan ’95 died July 2, 2021, at age 51.
Robert “Gerry” Sargeant ’64 died Sept. 20 2021, at age 83.
Enie Vaisburd film professor
For the past three years Enie Vaisburd, Multimedia associate professor, has been working on a project that is close to her heart. She completed the feature documentary, A Midsummer’s Night Dream in Prison, on behalf of a fellow filmmaker who died in 2019.   
Photos of 2022 Poet Laureate Fellows from MFA
Julia B. Levine MFA '19 named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow.
Pacific EyeVan
Pacific's Optometry EyeVan and partners hit the road for the first time this spring since the pandemic. Summer trips include local and international community outreach.  
Public Health Update
COVID-19 is not gone, but we have learned considerably more about how to manage it. Vaccines and new boosters are protecting most people from serious illness, and the extreme strain on our healthcare systems has abated. At Pacific, we are moving from an emergency response to our more typical long-term strategy of communicable disease management.
In just a couple of weeks, we get to do one of my favorite things: Celebrate the graduation of Pacific University students!
Dr. Tzurei Chen
Dr. Chen, third-year physical therapy student Madelyn Foulk '23, and Sara Tomlinson PT '22 and Sydney Neumann PT '22 presented a poster at the 9th World Congress of Biomechanics in Taipei, Taiwan.
George D. Zgourides PsyD’89 died May 18, 2022, at age 60.
Dr. Lawrence LaRock ’65, OD ’66 died July 6, 2022, at age 80.

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