Falcon distance running star Annika Esvelt is featured on KING5-TV. She won two gold medals at the GNAC Indoor Track & Field Championships!

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. Watch or read the story online at king5.com. 

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.

Falcons win five gold medals at 2025 GNAC Indoor Track & Field Championships!

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.

Read more. 

Seattle Pacific Art Center Gallery presents an exhibition by artist May Kytonen. "Field of Belonging."

Feb 15, 2025

Seattle Pacific Art Center Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by artist May Kytonen. "Field of Belonging" 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 Armoire, 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).

Biology Professor Cara Wall-Scheffler was interviewed by National Geographic about her research on prehistoric women hunters.

Feb 13, 2025

Professor of Biology Cara Wall-Scheffler was interviewed for an article in National Geographic magazine titled, "The graves of 'women warriors' are changing what we know about ancient gender roles," 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.

SPU-Alert System

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 Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett. Ivy Cutting and Graduate Commencement will be held on campus, Friday, June 6.. 

Learn more on the 2025 Commencement website.

In an opinion piece published in The Seattle Times, Psychology Professor Paul Youngbin Kim reflects on the Lunar New Year and the Korean practice of sebae.

Jan 29, 2025

"Whenever the Lunar New Year celebration rolls around, I am reminded of something that, at first articulation, might appear oddly positioned in relation to the festivities of the new year. "

Read this opinion piece by SPU Psychology Professor Paul Youngbin Kim published in The Seattle Times.

SPU Theatre presents "Anastasia: The Musical," based on the true story of the daughter of the last Russian tsar.

Jan 28, 2025

From Russia to Paris in the 1920s, a young woman sets out to discover the mystery of her past while being pursued by a ruthless Soviet officer determined to silence her. Don't miss this SPU Theatre production of Anastasia: The Musical, based on the popular animated movie.