Arches Winter 2024 Cover

 

Arches is the alumni magazine of Puget Sound, serving more than 40,000 Loggers worldwide. 

Guided by the intellectually curious and humanist values of the liberal arts, Arches strives to capture and convey the ethos of the college through stories that are relevant to the times we are living in and that amplify the voices and experiences of Loggers in an effort to foster understanding and fuel connection within our community and beyond.

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To the Heights

Students doing research on the Olympic Peninsula.

Five students, mentored by biology faculty member Carrie Woods, spent part of their summer exploring plant life on the Olympic Peninsula.

Field Days
Professor Jeff Matthews
Q&A

Jeffrey Matthews' new book looks at dishonorable military leaders—and what society can learn from them.

Tackling Military Leadership
Historical mural from the Yucatan Peninsula

The work of Puget Sound art historian Linda Williams has helped reveal the hidden truth of how art and culture evolved in the Yucatán Peninsula.

Peeling Back History, Layer by Layer
Washington State Supreme Court visits the Puget Sound campus.

The state's Supreme Court pays the university a visit.

Road Trip
Ariela Tubert, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy

Ariela Tubert, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy, on Artificial Intelligence.

The Promise and Pitfalls of AI
Lily Godwin ’26

Lily Godwin '26 becomes the first woman to make an unassisted tackle in NCAA football history.

Godwin's Feat
Don Scott ’91

New director of alumni and parent relations, Don Scott '91, returned to the university last fall after 27 years away.

More About Don Scott

Always a Logger

Lael Wilcox ’08

Lael Wilcox '08 and the Tour Divide—a 2,700-mile bicycle race crisscrossing the Continental Divide from Canada to New Mexico

Beyond Winning
Galvin Guerrero ’96

How Puget Sound prepared Galvin Guerrero '96 for a life in education

Tough Tasks
Jerry Kerrick P'86, P'95 joined the faculty in 1973 to help create a computer science program, and ended up staying for 30 years.

OLD SCHOOL It may look archaic by today's standards, but that Sperry-Rand UNIVAC 9300 mainframe, housed in the basement of Jones Hall, was state-of-the-art in 1974, when this photo was taken. The mainframe ran on punch cards, and its memory could be expanded to a whopping 32KB. Jerry Kerrick P'86, P'95, shown here, joined the faculty in 1973 to help create a computer science program, and ended up staying for 30 years. Kerrick died in December 2023 (see story); he'll be remembered in June at Summer Reunion Weekend, during the computer science program's 50th anniversary celebration.

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