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What’s happening at °µÍøTV? This is where you’ll find the latest news about research, events, activities, achievements, and milestones in the life of °µÍøTV and its people.



  • Jul 8, 2025

    In the Winter Quarter 2025 Connections alumni e-newsletter, we asked you to share how Doris Brown Heritage ’64, ’70 MEd — °µÍøTV’s legendary two-time Olympian and five-time world champion — may have inspired you. As a coach, professor, friend, and mentor, Doris left an indelible mark on our community during her remarkable tenure at °µÍøTV, and alumni responded with incredible stories. .

  • Jul 8, 2025

    The Great Northwest Athletic Conference announced its 2024-25 Faculty Athletic Representative Scholar Athlete Award presented by Barnes & Noble College on Tuesday afternoon, with 34 °µÍøTV student-athletes earning recognition.

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  • Jun 30, 2025

    If you're thinking about applying to °µÍøTV, join us on campus this summer for a counselor led information session where you will learn more about our university and our application process, have a chance to ask questions, and tour campus with a current student!

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  • Learn about two new science majors — data science and biomedical engineering — beginning Autumn Quarter 2025.

    Jun 30, 2025

    Beginning Autumn Quarter 2025, Seattle Pacific will offer two new academic programs in the sciences. 

    The data science (BS) program will equip students with the mathematical, statistical, and computational skills needed to extract meaningful insights from data. Through hands-on learning and ethical inquiry, students prepare for careers in data-driven industries, applying their expertise across diverse fields.

    The biomedical engineering (BS) program blends engineering with biology and health sciences to prepare students for a hands-on, interdisciplinary career. This degree also prepares students to design cutting-edge biomedical devices while earning both a biomedical engineering degree and an ABET-accredited general ngineering degree.

  • Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann died June 5 at the age of 92. He spoke on campus in 2013 and gave an interview with °µÍøTV’s Response magazine.

    Jun 11, 2025

    Old Testament scholar, preacher, teacher, author, and theologian Walter Brueggemann died on June 5 at the age of 92. In an interview with °µÍøTV’s Response magazine in 2013, he talked about prayer, imagination, and what Christians of different faith traditions can learn from one another.

  • Seattle Pacific receives high marks in several 2025 national rankings.

    Jun 6, 2025

    For the ninth year in a row, Seattle Pacific has been named a “” in U.S. News & World Report’s best college annual rankings for 2025. 

    Seattle Pacific is the No. 1 ranked Christian university in the Northwest in Niche’s “.” Niche is an online resource providing information on K–12 schools, colleges, and more and is a top guide for students looking for a college. The Wall Street Journal included °µÍøTV in its .

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  • Jun 6, 2025

    Empowering students to serve the world has been at the heart of °µÍøTV s mission since its founding. Senior Lainey Mendoza ’25, recently recognized for her servant leadership, is another example of °µÍøTV students making the world a better place

    In her junior year, Mendoza was unanimously nominated by her honors cohort for the Erin Rahel Kimminau Servanthood Scholarship Award. The award, which is redeemed during the recipient’s senior year, honors the memory of Erin Kimminau, a junior who tragically passed away in a 2016 car accident.

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  • Jun 6, 2025

    For more than a century, °µÍøTV has woven Christian faith into the fabric of daily campus life, a tradition that began with its Free Methodist founders.

    Today, students engage in spiritual life through numerous opportunities, from meeting and praying with their student ministry coordinators (SMCs) to serving local nonprofits through Urban Involvement to attending Group, a midweek, biweekly worship service. Of all the worship opportunities at °µÍøTV, though, Chapel remains the most time-honored.

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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 Seattle 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.