Longtime SPU Theatre Professor Emeritus George Scranton talks about his teaching career and hospitality ministry in the latest SPU Voices podcast.

Mar 21, 2023

George Scranton, professor emeritus of theater, taught at Seattle Pacific for more than four decades. He has written or adapted a dozen plays, five of which received national awards. He enjoyed an academic and professional acting career and directed more than 90 plays in both educational and professional venues. Yet one of George’s most exciting achievements involves the hospitality he and his wife shared with both SPU and the local theatre community.

George talks about his teaching career and hospitality ministry in the latest SPU Voices podcast. Listen now or read the transcript.

Save the date! SPU’s annual Giving Day is April 5. Show your support for the programs that make an SPU education so great. #SPUfalconsgive.

Mar 21, 2023

Join us Wednesday, April 5, for Seattle Pacific University’s Giving Day – an annual fundraising event to raise support for the areas and programs at SPU you love. Help us go all in for student success on Giving Day! Make sure to check back here for updates as Giving Day approaches.

Danni Gheleva, associate professor of food and nutrition, talks about the Mediterranean Diet on the "Healthier Together" segment of local TV station FOX 13 Seattle.

Mar 21, 2023

Danni Gheleva, associate professor of food and nutrition, was featured on the "Healthier Together" segment of local TV station FOX 13 Seattle. Danni talked about the Mediterranean Diet. Watch the story online.

"20 years after Iraq War: Stories and Perspectivies" is the title of a public lecture on Tuesday, April 11, by Alissa Walter, SPU assistant professor of history. The lecture will also be livestreamed.

Mar 21, 2023

April 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq. The 2003 Iraq War was a major turning point in changing the ways that Iraqis related to their own government and to their fellow citizens. Paying attention to Iraqis' stories about their lives under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and during the tumultuous two decades that followed his fall sheds light on the forces that can unify or divide a society during periods of crisis and upheaval.

For the annual Weter Lecture, Assistant Professor of History Alissa Walter will talk about stories and perspectives 20 years after the Iraq War. The lecture is Tuesday, April 11, 7–8:30 p.m. in Upper Gwinn Commons and is free, open to the public, and will be livestreamed.

An exhibit of student-designed sculptures titled “Push and Pull" is now on view in the library through Thursday, Mar. 16.

Mar 15, 2023

Works by students in Assistant Professor of Art Alison Stigora’s sculpture studio class are now on display in the Ames Library. The exhibit of sculptures, titled “Push and Pull,” will be on view through Thursday, Mar. 16.

Falcon track star Vanessa Aniteye wins the 800-meters national title at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships and sets a new school record. Congratulations, Vanessa!

Mar 10, 2023

Fifth-year senior Vanessa Aniteye, who has combined the attributes of athletics, academics, marriage, and motherhood into a story like perhaps no other in the long, distinguished history of SPU women's track and field, heads to Virginia for this week's NCAA Division II Indoor Championships as the runner to beat in the 800.

Having led the D2 national rankings for all but one week this winter, Aniteye will step to the starting line inside the Virginia Beach Sports Center on Friday afternoon at 1:40 p.m. Pacific time for the preliminary heats. The finals are set for Saturday at 2:10 p.m. Pacific.

Aniteye comes in with the top-seeded time of 2 minutes, 7.53 seconds that the recorded on Feb. 11 in Seattle at the Husky Classic.

She was featured in The Seattle Times on Mar. 10. 

The SPU Orchestra, String Ensemble, and Camerata will present their winter concert on Sunday, March 5, at 3 p.m. in Upper Gwinn. The concert will be livestreamed.

Mar 1, 2023

The Music Department presents a winter orchestra concert, “By Any Other Name,” on Sunday, March 5, at 3 p.m. in Upper Gwinn. Experience what the SPU Orchestra has been working on this quarter at this FREE concert open to the public and wheelchair accessible. The concert will be livestreamed.

The men's and women's basketball teams are in the GNAC championships Mar. 2-4 in Bellingham. Go Falcons!

Feb 27, 2023

The Falcon men's and women's basketball teams will play in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Tournament in Bellingham, Washington, Mar. 2-4. 

The No. 5 women's team (14-12, 9-9 GNAC) will play No. 4 seed Alaska Anchorage at 7:30 p.m. in Carver Gymnasium at Western Washington University on Thursday, Mar. 2. The men's team enters the tournament as the third seed.

Follow the Falcons online for the latest information.

The School of Business, Government, and Economics received the prestigious Principles for Responsible Management Education Champion designation through the United Nations Global Compact. SPU is one of only three schools in the United States and 47 throughout the world to receive this status.

Feb 22, 2023

Seattle Pacific University’s School of Business, Government, and Economics (SBGE) has once again garnered the prestigious PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Champion designation through the United Nations Global Compact. SPU is one of only three schools in the United States and 47 throughout the world to receive this status.

SBGE has demonstrated a proven, long-term track record of making impactful contributions in thought and praxis, developing leaders equipped not only to address barriers to sustainability, but also to promote peace and prosperity for all people—and the planet—well into the future.

Read more about the designation.

The campus community is invited to join a self-paced time of prayer, reflection, and worship on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., in Upper Gwinn.

Feb 20, 2023

A message from University Ministries: The campus community is invited to join in worship on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, in preparation for the upcoming Lenten season. Guided prayer stations, culminating in the receiving of ashes, will be open Wednesday, Feb. 22, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., in Upper Gwinn for a self-paced time of prayer, reflection, and worship. Father Marcin Szymansk from the Newman Center at the University of Washington will be available to impose ashes for our Catholic community members.