Arches Spring 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

Anna Houston ’12 and a wooly friend

Community land preservation may help ensure the future of farming.

A Growing Issue
Professor of Biology Leslie Saucedo
Q&A

Leslie Saucedo on understanding cell biology—and making it less intimidating to students.

Unlocking the Secrets of the Cells
Resident Killer Whale

Research led by Phillip Morin ’86 suggests that the killer whale might be at least three separate species.

A New Org Chart for Orcas?
Photo from the basketball championship

Athletic championships, spring events, and more

What We’re Talking About on Campus
Regan Nelson '02

Longtime health educator and advocate Regan Nelson ’02 is the host of the Clean & Green Living podcast.

Reduce Exposure to Toxic Chemicals

Always a Logger

Gabriel Lehrman '16

For religion and music double-major Gabriel Lehrman ’16, the past is a tool to help make sense of the present—a skill he sharpened in both classroom and studio alike.

Jones Hall and Circle

The university names five Loggers to receive its most prestigious alumni awards.

One of the stone owls on Anderson-Langdon

WHOOOOOO DID IT? A handful of gargoyle-like carvings adorn the residence hall buildings added to campus in the 1950s. Tacoma architect Silas E. Nelson designed the buildings in the Collegiate Gothic style, and at least two of the decorative carvings—the owls on Anderson-Langdon—were the work of stonecutter Lloyd Livernash of Walker Cut Stone Company, Wilkeson, Wash.

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