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What’s happening at SPU? This is where you’ll find the latest news about research, events, activities, achievements, and milestones in the life of SPU and its º£½ÇÍø.



  • The Center for Faithful Business will honor Jeff Van Duzer, former provost and dean, with the 2025 Frank Haas Integrity in Business Award on April 3.

    Mar 6, 2025

    The Center for Faithful Business will present the 2025 Frank Haas Integrity in Business Award to Jeff Van Duzer, former º£½ÇÍø Pacific provost, dean, and professor, on Thursday, April 3, 7–8:30 p.m. in Upper Gwinn Commons. Dessert and beverages will be provided. . 

  • The Percussions Ensemble presents a concert featuring traditional Malinke drumming from northeast Guinea.

    Mar 6, 2025

    The SPU Percussion Ensemble presents a winter concert on Tuesday, March 11, 7:30 p.m. in the EE Bach Theater in McKinley Hall. Percussion works by Mitchell Peters, John H Beck, Bella Fleck, Eric Sammut, Carlos Chavez, William Kraft, Rich O'Meara, Patrick Speranz and George Hamilton Green will be the program. Also featured is traditional Malinke drumming from northeast Guinea.

    Admission is free and open to the public.

  • Feb 24, 2025

    Annika Esvelt wasn't planning to run a fifth year until an unexpected fall inspired her comeback season. The graduate student is having the best year of her career. . 

  • Enjoy and evening of choral music featuring the Concert and Treble choirs on Thursday, Feb. 27.

    Feb 24, 2025

    The SPU Music Department hosts an evening of choral music featuring the Concert and Treble choirs on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, 7:30 p.m. at First Free Methodist Church, adjacent to campus. Join Music faculty Beth Ann Bonnecroy, Ryan Ellis, and guest director Vanessa Bruce, gospel music composer/arranger, for a program that celebrates life, resilience, hope, and faith. The concert is free and open to the public.

    The Treble Choir will feature music by composers such as Tracy Wong, Susan LaBarr, and Tony Young. The Concert Choir celebrates Black History Month with Bruce and her arrangements as well as composers such as Grayson Warren Brown, Carl Haywood, and Roland Carter.

  • Feb 19, 2025

    Annika Esvelt, Andrew Bell, and Hannah Chang found just the right balance on Tuesday afternoon.

    Esvelt ran to victory in the mile and 3000 meters, Bell capped a phenomenal freshman season by winning the men's 60-meter hurdles, and Chang added an indoor 60 hurdles title to her outdoor crown in the 100s on the final day of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships.That capped a productive two days for the Falcons inside The Podium. They headed for home with five titles (four on Tuesday plus Maya Ewing's in the women's 5000 meters on Monday).

    They also rewrote three school records: another one by Bell in the hurdles, one in the women's pole vault by Lizzy Daugherty and Monday's sub-7 second performance by Robert Joshua in the men's 60 dash, the first SPU athlete ever to do that.

  • Feb 15, 2025

    º£½ÇÍø Pacific Art Center Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by artist May Kytonen. "" is a collection of works that examine identity, memory, and connection. From embroidered floor plans layered with Chinese lattice designs to wax-resist constellations, each piece serves as a space to explore questions of home, heritage, and belonging. These works act as vessels for ancestral memory, tracing the connections that bind us to place and a sense of belonging.

    The exhibit runs through Friday, March 7. SPAC Gallery is located at 3 West Cremona Street and is open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. or by appointment.

  • SPU welcomes to campus Armoire founder Ambika Singh to share her entrepreneurial journey in starting an innovative clothing rental company.

    Feb 13, 2025

    The Burton and Ralene Walls Center for Applied Learning welcomes Ambika Singh, founder of innovative clothing rental company , as the Winter Quarter School of Business, Government, and Economics Dean’s Speaker on Monday, Feb. 17, 9 a.m. in the library seminar room (2nd floor).

  • Feb 13, 2025

    Professor of Biology Cara Wall-Scheffler was interviewed for an article in National Geographic magazine titled, "," that was published online on Jan. 30. (Link is paywall protected).

  • Due to inclement weather, SPU will open at 11 a.m. today. Professors will be in contact with students about classes before 11 a.m. Offices will open at 11 a.m.

    Feb 6, 2025

    SPU will open at 10 a.m. today due to inclement weather. Offices will open at 11 a.m. Professors will contact students if a class before 11 a.m. will be held online. No classes will meet on campus before 11 a.m.

    More info here.

    Emergency Closure Hotline: 206-281-2800

  • Here's everything you need to know about Undergraduate and Graduate Commencements, Ivy Cutting, and other year-end events.

    Feb 5, 2025

    The 2025 Undergraduate Commencement ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 7, at 1 p.m., at in Everett. Ivy Cutting and Graduate Commencement will be held on campus, Friday, June 6.. 

    Learn more on the 2025 Commencement website.

Holistic Health Care in the Rainier Valley

Dr. Christopher Jones ’94 hopes the families in his medical practice never need to ask: “Is my kid sick enough that I should pay for a doctor’s visit?” Medical director of HopeCentral, a nonprofit health center, he and his team have adapted the concept of concierge medicine to a diverse º£½ÇÍø neighborhood.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Leland Saunders

What Makes Us Moral?

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Leland Saunders earned a $10,100 Graves Award in Humanities for his research project, “The Structure of Moral Judgement: Philosophical Perspectives.” His research responds to recent arguments that human beings’ concepts of morality are just a quirk of evolution and don't connect to anything deeper.