Sun shines on Puget Sound's 120th Commencement exercises

Hundreds of grads and their families celebrated Commencement weekend with ceremonies, receptions, parties, and SUN! See photos and other highlights of the day.

Commencement photos.

Generous gift funds new Jennie M. Caruthers Chair in Neuroscience

Educator and researcher Siddharth Ramakrishnan of Columbia University will assume the newly endowed chair in neuroscience at Puget Sound beginning in January.

More about Professor Ramakrishnan.

VOICES
  • May 14, 2012

    Kyle Kubler '13: Spring break-through

    Instead of people asking me right off the bat if I speak English, I’m now having some people ask me if I’m French. It may be a small victory, but I’ll take it. The second break-through is me and my french friend Paulo getting on the cover of a magazine here in Dijon. Check it out!

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  • May 9, 2012

    Annie Bigalke '13: Grasslands

    Here we looked how the city of Paragominas has created a form of registry (CAR) to monitor land use and create pressure for landowners to conserve 50% of the land for reforestation. We walked around a cattle ranch to see the grass fields and conserved rainforest.

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  • April 1, 2012

    Kammi Sheeler '11: My first business trip

    My first time in Mostar, I arrived by bus from Dubrovnik. I remember thinking about how being in transit had become a crucial time or relief, reflection, and anticipation. Again, before this trip I had never traveled alone. In 2009, at the age of 20, I found myself traveling alone through multiple countries where I knew practically no one and could not speak the language at all, where if some...

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  • May 14, 2012

    Alayna Schoblaske '11: Post-grad in pictures

    A recent graduate looking to chronicle my life in one photo each day for 365 days. August 22, 2011 through August 22, 2012. Here's to a year's worth of photographic adventures.
    Am I attending the 21-and-over retirement party for one of my favorite Chemistry professors in the fall? Oh. Heck. Yes.

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