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Making Space

Aimee Roseberry ’21 stepped off the plane in Taiwan and panicked. As a double major in sociology and anthropology and Chinese, she had two years of Chinese language classes…
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People Gotta Eat

The start of the COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020 spurred home bakers to take to their ovens as a way of coping with the upheaval in their lives. The resulting spike…
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University of Puget Sound Awarded $1.3 Million from The Mellon Foundation

Tacoma, Wash. - The University of Puget Sound has been awarded $1.3 million from The Mellon Foundation to fund its groundbreaking project, "Reimagining Justice and Carceral…
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Campus

McCarver Day

Under the microscope in neuroscience professor Siddharth Ramakrishnan’s lab, the tiny heart of a Japanese rice fish embryo was beating. And the group of fifth-grade visitors…
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Campus

Raising the Roof

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Community

Team Beaver

Long regarded as nuisances by many farmers and landowners, beavers are being seen in a new light: as possible allies in efforts to restore rivers and the fight against…
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University of Puget Sound Launches New Crime, Law, and Justice Studies Minor

Police brutality incidents, such as the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020, have made the issues surrounding policing and racism more visible than ever…
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Alumni

From Iraq to the Puget Sound: Finding my Own Call to Action

When finishing high school in 2014, I didn’t know what I wanted to do after I graduated, but I knew I didn’t want to stay in my hometown of Auburn, CA while I figured it out…
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Campus

Matelich Scholarships Awarded to Outstanding Arizona and Nigeria Students

TACOMA, Wash. – The University of Puget Sound is proud to announce incoming students Bryce Kirk of Sedona, Arizona, and Esther Mosaku of Abule-Egbe, Nigeria, as the two…
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Campus

Get Oriented

For three and a half days in late August, roughly 700 first-year and transfer students explored the Seattle-Tacoma region by participating in one of 64 curated immersive…