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She Was Inspired at Pacific: Now She's Inspiring Others | As a child, Martha Méndez Bolaños ’21 attended a school in Hillsboro where she struggled to keep up with classes requiring English. Now she teaches English language learners in the same school. 

Elona Wilson '18 Overcame Obstacles, Holds on to Hope | Wilson ’18 took her undergraduate degree and ran with it, breaking a family cycle of poverty and addiction on her way to becoming a respected leader of Next Up, a Portland, Ore.,-based nonprofit.

Student Researchers Probe Links Between Latinx Resilience and Success | A set of students in the School of Graduate Psychology focused their research on a fascinating question: How do Latinx communities thrive when so many factors are arrayed against them?

 

Fall 2021 | Vol. 54 No. 2
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Martha Mendez '21 in front of high school
She Was Inspired at Pacific; Now She's Inspiring Others

As a child, Méndez Bolaños ’21 attended a school in Hillsboro where she struggled to keep up with classes requiring English. Now she teaches English language learners in the same school.

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Elona Wilson '18 in Portland
Elona Wilson ’18 Overcame Obstacles, Holds on to Hope

Elona Wilson '18 took her undergraduate degree and ran with it, breaking a family cycle of poverty and addiction on her way to becoming a respected leader of Next Up, a Portland, Ore.,-based nonprofit.

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Students provide support to people affected by wildfires
Student Researchers Probe Links Between Latinx Resilience and Success

A set of students in the School of Graduate Psychology focused their research on a fascinating question: How do Latinx communities thrive when so many factors are arrayed against them?

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Teacher Tim Foster on a Zoom call
Coronavirus Transforms the Way Teachers Relate to Students

Remote learning, along with changing pandemic protocols, took a toll on students and teachers. And they’re still navigating the uncertainty.

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Anna Meiners MA '11 in her office
Remote Work May Have Shifted the Workplace Forever

The broad-based shift from the office to remote workspaces may have forever altered the balance between employers and employees.

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Two students talk on campus
Students Crave Human Contact

Some Pacific University students have learned they prefer in-person interaction to online learning.

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Tim Tran in front of a house
First, Tim and Cathy Tran Survived. Then, They Thrived.

Tim and Cathy Tran struggled to survive after the fall of South Vietnam but overcame challenges to reach America, where they flourished.

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Pacific students singing in choir
New Scholarship Honors Musical Legacy of Pacific Alumnus

A new memorial scholarship will provide financial support to continuing undergraduates and graduate students who are studying to become choral music educators.

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