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Lalit Khandare
Khandare is in his fourth year as a faculty member in the Master of Social Work program, where he uses his expertise in caste studies, homelessness and domestic violence to inform coursework and inspire student research.
Ellen Margolis
Award-winning playwright, director, and faculty member earns university recognition.
Pacific University bestowed its annual faculty and staff awards and recognitions May 5 in a virtual ceremony. Honors included recognitions for teaching, service and scholarship, respectively, for outstanding service to the university, and for work to advance diversity and inclusion.
Student supervisors who wish to employ current spring undergraduate Federal Work-Study student employees on or after May 13, 2021, must submit specific summer job information to Student Payroll by 5 p.m. Pacific on Friday, May 7, 2021.
In an effort to make the hiring document retention process quicker and easier, a central repository has been created for convenient submission to Human Resources.
Marsh Hall
Thank you to all who voted in the recent Staff Senate elections. We are pleased to announce the following eight new staff members who have been elected for a two-year term to the Staff Senate which begins June 16.
Please join the Physical Therapy program in congratulating Dr. Heather Higashi, DPT ’19, who will be starting the OHSU Institute on Development and Disability Pediatric Residency this summer. 
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SCC suggestions and resources on how to care for your mental health during the summer break.
Pharmacy students and faculty prepare COVID-19 vaccine doses
Students and employees will be required to complete a full series of the COVID-19 vaccine at least two weeks prior to arriving on campus for 2021-2022 academic terms, including those starting in May, June or July. Current employees already on campus will be required to complete their vaccination series by Aug. 1, 2021.
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Pacific University will allow undergraduate and graduate travel abroad under limited circumstances in the coming months.

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