University of the Pacific

More Close Jul 05, 2026 For more than 20 years, Leticia Robles ’89 has built and led a successful business, distinguished by principled leadership, impactful service and a steadfast commitment to helping others rise. As chair of University of the Pacific’s Board of Regents, she will lead with those same strengths. Robles became Board of Regents Chair July 1. She has served on the board, which oversees the university’s finances, mission and strategic goals, since 2020.

After serving terms that span nearly ten years of service on the University of the Pacific Board of Regents, Mary-Elizabeth Eberhardt ’76 and Paul Dassenko and ’82 are concluding their terms, leaving behind a legacy of leadership and service that helped guide the university through a period of historic growth and transformation. Mary-Elizabeth Eberhardt Eberhardt has served on Pacific's Board of Regents since 2017 and has chaired the board since 2023.

Josh O’Connor, assistant vice president for student life at the University of the Pacific, has been named president-elect of the Western Association of College and University Housing Officers, a regional organization that supports professionals in collegiate housing and residential life across the western United States.

More Close Jun 21, 2026 Pacific Dining Resident District Manager Marco Alvarado From introducing new cuisines to creating a campus experience centered on connection and community, University of the Pacific Dining Resident District Manager Marco Alvarado has spent the past year invigorating dining options and centering the student experience at Pacific. Alvarado is being recognized as General Manager of the Year for the Lubecky West Region of Bon Appétit, the university’s food service provider.

McGeorge School of Law alumna Michele Ruffner ’26 is being recognized as one of the nation’s top law student advocates, earning the All-American Trial Advocate Award from the National Association of Legal Advocacy Educators. The award is given annually to the top 20 student advocates in the country. Ruffner is the first McGeorge student to earn the honor.

Imagine opening a capstone assignment and discovering your client is the San Francisco 49ers. That’s exactly what happened for five students in University of the Pacific’s Master of Science in Data Science program, who spent the semester working as student consultants for the NFL franchise. Their task: making sense of nearly nine million rows of game-day transaction data from Levi’s Stadium, drawn from multiple seasons of fan activity.

Three days of commencement weekend festivities culminated on June 14 as University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry celebrated the Class of 2026 during its 132nd Commencement Ceremony at The Masonic in San Francisco. More than 200 students and residents earned degrees and certificates, including Doctor of Dental Surgery; Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene; Master of Science in Dentistry (Orthodontics) and Master of Science in Dentistry (Endodontology).

Just weeks after joining a stem cell donor registry during a guest lecture, Master of Science in Nursing student Adeleke Fashola ’26 received an unexpected phone call: He was a match. June 9, he boarded a flight to Seattle to donate stem cells to a young boy he had never met. The opportunity was made possible as a result of recent initiatives in the School of Health Sciences and Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy to educate students and community members about stem cell and bone marrow donations.

A student scans a QR code on a coffee cup to reveal their design. Graphic design students at University of the Pacific are receiving international recognition for an ad campaign created for Groundstack Coffee, a locally owned business on Stockton’s Miracle Mile.