The best way to discover our amazing community is come and visit! Sign up for a Falcon Friday or other visit events.

Dec 23, 2024

Live like an SPU student for a day during Falcon Fridays! This one-day visit includes information sessions about specific academic programs, financial aid, and admissions. Plus, you'll take a tour of our beautiful campus and enjoy lunch in our award-winning dining hall. Sign up today!!

SPU biology professors and undergraduate students just released the results of a yearlong research project identifing salmon fraud in Seattle grocery stores and sushi restaurants.

Dec 23, 2024

It’s the law in Washington state. Salmon must be labeled “wild caught” or “farmed.” But how accurate is that label in your favorite sushi restaurant or grocery store? Seattle Pacific University biology professors and undergraduate students just released the results of a yearlong research project that identified salmon fraud in Seattle grocery stores and sushi restaurants.

Led by SPU Biology Professor Tracie Delgado, the research group acquired salmon samples from 67 grocery stores and 52 sushi restaurants. DNA from each salmon sample was isolated and tested to identify the fish species. Overall, the study revealed Seattle sushi restaurants were far more likely to sell farmed salmon mislabeled as wild salmon as compared to grocery stores.

Learn more.

Seattle Pacific receives high marks in several 2025 national rankings.

Dec 19, 2024

For the ninth year in a row, Seattle Pacific has been named a “Best National University” 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 “2025 Best Christian Colleges in America.” 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 SPU in its 2025 America’s Best Colleges.

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English Professor Traynor Hansen and SPU students were featured in a KING5-TV news story about using AI in the classroom.

Dec 9, 2024

Traynor Hansen, assistant professor of writing and director of campus writing, and three students were featured in a KING5-TV news story about AI in the classroom. In the course, "Academic Inquiry and Writing Seminar," Traynor teaches about using AI responsibly. The story, titled "Professor encourages students to use A.I," aired on December 5 and ran in newscasts during the next several days. 

Focusing on theology and song, this conference sponsored by Seattle Pacific Seminary will provide useful reflections and tips for songwriters, worship leaders, and pastors.

Dec 9, 2024

Singing the Faith conference
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 12 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

This conference celebrates the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed by exploring the relationship between theology and song. Lyrics stick with us in ways other written forms of communication do not. The songs we sing in personal devotions and in corporate worship shape the way we think about the God we serve. During this conference, we will consider the topic of "Lyrical Theology." Drawing from the deep wells of wisdom from theologians, local pastors, and worship directors, attendees will find useful reflections and tips for songwriters, worship leaders, and pastors alike.

Tradition, a student-produced Christmas event, features arts and crafts, beverages, and a live reindeer! The event is Friday, Dec. 6, starting at 7 p.m. in Tiffany Loop.

Dec 2, 2024

Tradition, a student-produced Christmas event, features arts and crafts, hot beverages, and a live reindeer! The event is Friday, Dec. 6, starting at 7 p.m. in Tiffany Loop.

The SPU community is invited to the official lighting of a Christmas tree and a time of joyful worship on Monday, Dec. 2, 5-5:30 p.m. at the corner of 3rd and Bertona Street.

Dec 2, 2024

Don't miss a new Christmas celebration for students, faculty, staff, and their families for what we anticipate will be an annual event.

We invite you to gather for an official lighting of a Christmas tree and a time of joyful worship at the start of the Advent season on Monday, Dec. 2, 5-5:30 p.m. at the corner of 3rd and Bertona Street. The event will be followed by cookies and cocoa in the SUB Gazebo/Fireplace Room.

The SPU Percussion Ensemble's autumn concert on Tuesday, Dec. 3, features the 12-member ensemble performing contemporary works and student solos.

Nov 25, 2024

The SPU Percussion Ensemble will present their autumn concert on Tuesday, Dec.3, at 7:30 p.m. in the E.E. Bach Theater in McKinley Hall. The 12-member ensemble will perform contemporary works by Nathan Daughtrey, Jim Casella, and Alan Hovhaness along with traditional marimba selections from Guatemala and drumming of the Susu Ethnic Group of southwest Guinea. Also on the program will be solo performances by students Sara Mach ("Fragments for Timpan"i by John Beck), James Loffink ("Rain Dance" by Alice Gomez and Marlyn Riff), and Dylan Berlier performing his original work “Evening Shores.”

Admission is free and open to the public.

The chapel in Alexander and Adelaide Hall has been named in honor of alumna and longtime missionary Ruth Ellen Kroon, Class of 1941.

Nov 25, 2024

Before the start of Autumn Quarter, the family of alumna and longtime missionary Ruth Kroon and Seattle Pacific University community members gathered to celebrate the dedication and renaming of the Alexander and Adelaide Hall chapel. The event celebrated the Kroon family’s contribution to the refurbishment of the building and the dedication of the newly named “Ruth Ellen Kroon Chapel.”

Read the story at SPU Stories.

 

An illustration by adjunct art professor Abigail Platter is on the cover of the 2024 November/December issue of Christianity Today magazine.

Nov 19, 2024

An illustration by adjunct art professor Abigail Platter is on the cover of the 2024 November/December issue of Christianity Today. The issue highlights themes of life’s hardship and the wonder of the incarnation.