Profile Day is this weekend!

Pacific rolls out the red carpet for all admitted students and their parents to spend a day at our biggest event of the year!

• Hear from current students about their experience
• Meet future classmates and lifelong friends
• Learn about your program of study
• Tour our beautiful campus
• Talk with faculty members
• Visit our residence halls

Be a part of this all day event. Reserve your spot now by clicking here!

A Schedule of events, including specific Academic Sessions and Campus Map can be downloaded by clicking here!

Reaching for the Stars gets $5K donation

By The Stockton Record
January 05, 2009 6:00 AM

STOCKTON – The Jose Hernandez Reaching for the Stars Foundation received a $5,000 grant on Dec. 24 from Bank of the West.

The grant will go toward the foundation’s scholarship fund. The foundation hopes to award $10,000 to  University of the Pacific students interested in the math, science, or engineering study fields by fall. Students are selected based on their major, income, grades, and community service record.

Astronaut Jose Hernandez, a Stockton native and Pacific graduate, was chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to fly in a space mission this year. The Stockton-based foundation named after him promotes math, science and engineering among students, especially disadvantaged youths.

[From the Stockton Record]

Tokay right-hander Bobby Raymos signs with Pacific

Tokay High senior Bobby Raymos has signed with Pacific. (News-Sentinel file photograph)

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:01 AM PST
Lodi News Sentinel

Bobby Raymos can now serve as motivation for other players in the Tokay High baseball program.

Raymos, a senior pitcher/outfielder who drew inspiration from other recent Tigers that went on to play at the next level, has signed with the University of the Pacific.

The 6-foot-1, 180-pound right-hander said he was also considering Cal State Fullerton, Utah and the University of San Francisco.

“It was a local team, the coaches were great and they offered me quite a bit,” Raymos, who plans to major in communications, said of his decision to choose Pacific. “It’s great being closer to home and around family. We can be there for each other.”

Raymos was also impressed with Klein Family Field, Pacific’s new on-campus stadium. He said the school plans to spend another $3 million on the field and build a new clubhouse next to it.

http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2008/11/18/sports/1_raymos_081118.txt

For the sake of argument

By Tony Sauro

Stockton Record Staff Writer

November 07, 2008 6:00 AM

Anthony Young used to have a “dreadful fear” of speaking in public.

He’d sweat, get really anxious and giggle.

Now, the 18-year-old University of the Pacific freshman wants to be a politician or a lobbyist.

Which is a persuasive argument for the virtues of competitive speech and debate that will be on display today through Sunday at Pacific.

Full Article on the Stockton Record

Pacific students to gather for election day

Pacific students are gathering on Tuesday to watch the Election results. Pacific Faculty members will also be there to comment on the results.

Being held in “the Lair” at the DeRosa Center  It will begin with a series of student presentations (from the Campaigns and Elections class) on the state of the election. ; i.e., what states and contests to watch and why. The TVs will be tuned to different stations to watch the returns, and a computer will be hooked up to a projector to watch the California returns.

Schedule:

3:30 – 4:00 PM Set up
4:00 – 4:30 PM Presentations
4:30 – 9:00 PM Watch returns
9:00 – 9:30 PM Wrap-up Commentary
10:00 PM Clean up

The event is being sponsored by the Associated Students of the University of the Pacific (ASUOP), the Office of Student Life, and the Department of Political Science.

Pacific Engineering Students Honored

From the Stockton Record.

University of the Pacific engineering students were recently awarded prestigious fellowships by Pacific’s School of Engineering and Computer Science.

Among the 14 students who participated in the Engineering Industry Fellowship program, which started 11 years ago, are Sarah Maher and Christina Ramirez of Manteca and Chad Parsons, Michelle Hawley, Rosemary Poblador, Benjamin Garcia, Jake Rovig, Conner Gritsch and Matthew Jesse, all of Stockton.

The fellowship includes a $2,000 scholarship for each year the student is in school and a paid internship in his or her field during academic breaks, which include summers and cooperative education until graduation.

The program is funded by the university and a number of sponsors.

Facebook is ‘social glue’ for university freshers

From PHYSORG.com

The first few weeks at university can be a difficult time for freshers as they attempt to settle in to their new academic and social life. Researchers at the University of Leicester have found that a high proportion of freshers use the internet to smooth the settling-in process.

The University is now exploring ways of using internet platforms that most students are familiar with — social networking sites and podcasting — to help new arrivals get their bearings.

And it is looking into how these technological mediums might also be used to improve the student experience beyond the first few weeks at university.

REad the full article at:
http://www.physorg.com/news143200776.html

Students Float their Boat

By Jennie Rodriguez

Stockton Record

October 11, 2008 6:00 AM

STOCKTON – University of the Pacific students made a splash Friday with boat creations of nothing more than cardboard and duct tape.

A cheering crowd surrounded the university’s Kjeldsen Pool. At the same time, students in teams of two prepared their cardboard canoes, cruisers and pirate ships for the Cardboard Vessel Regatta. The object was to avoid sinking their homemade watercraft while they complete a timed race.

The competition was a graded assignment for an introductory course for all freshman engineering and computer science majors in which they learned the basics of innovation and teamwork, said Louise Stark, associate dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science.

read full article from the Stockton Record

Pacific fashion exhibit inspired by urban themes

 
By Lori Gilbert
Stockton Record
September 30, 2008 6:00 AM
 
(http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080930/A_ENTERTAIN/809300306)

Pacific fashion exhibit inspired by urban themes

Robin Lee, a University of the Pacific junior from New Hampshire, found a couple of discarded doors in the alley near her house and saw potential.

One person’s junk is another’s canvas, and the doors will be painted by local artists and become part of a mock city that makes up “Caps and Couture: Fashion and the Urban Landscape,” the exhibition Lee and classmate Madalyn Friedrich are staging Monday through Nov. 7 at Reynolds Gallery.

“It’s avant-garde fashion and street art,” Lee explained.

“Graffiti is seen with a negative view. I hope they come away seeing the artistic side,” said Friedrich, who is from Modesto, the city that gave rise to the term “graffiti” after native George Lucas made a little movie called “American Graffiti.”

The exhibition also looks to show the “connection with fashion and the urban landscape,” Friedrich said.

The project of the students, who are serving internships with the gallery, also includes a runway fashion show Oct. 18, which coincides with Pacific Families Weekend.

[ Read full story on the Stockton Record..... ]

Stockton SUSD Juniors and Seniors can take the SAT for free

By Roger Phillips

Stockton Record Staff Writer

September 11, 2008 6:00 AM

excerpt from news article.

For the first time, juniors and seniors districtwide will be able to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test for free this year. The same goes for sophomores and the Preliminary SAT, a practice test. The district also is offering free readiness classes through Kaplan Inc., a company that specializes in test preparation.

A student who avails himself of all these free services would save his or her family several hundred dollars. The cost to the district is $850,000, a price tag that includes enhanced interventions to help improve performance in the California High School Exit Examination.

Superintendent Tony Amato said that when he arrived in Stockton Unified, he learned that only 9 percent of the district’s 4,500 students took the SAT last year.

“I thought that was atrocious,” said Amato, who praised the board for approving the new, free services.

Spokesman Rick Brewer said the district is hoping 75 percent of Stockton Unified juniors and seniors will take the SAT this year.

Link to Recordnet.com (Stockton Records online edition)  Full Story