University of Puget Sound student Julia Kaeppel ’24 has always been interested in computer programming. As a kid, she was a member of her elementary school robotics team and got hooked on programming in middle school as a pathway toward making video games. Kaeppel’s lifelong interest in operating systems and programming later led to an exciting research opportunity at Puget Sound.
TACOMA, Wash. — University of Puget Sound will welcome Abbie Lacsina as associate vice president for constituent relations, effective May 2024. Working closely with Victor Martin, vice president for university relations, and senior leaders across the institution, Lacsina will act as a liaison between internal and external constituents, while fostering a culture of volunteerism and philanthropy across generations of Loggers.
On a recent Thursday afternoon, students in University of Puget Sound’s Connections 375: The Art & Science of Color class were split into two groups. One group combined various chemicals to produce Prussian blue—the first modern, synthetic blue pigment—while the other group foraged outside to find the ingredients to create ochre—one of the oldest naturally-derived pigments.
From Ancient Myth to Jazz History, Puget Sound provides a wide selection of Summer Term courses available in two sessions between May and July. Enrolled students have the opportunity to stay on campus for in-person or hybrid classes while experiencing summertime in Tacoma. Students can also enjoy the flexibility that fully remote courses have to offer.
Last summer, English major Rowan Baiocchi ’25 skipped the stress of making room in a semester schedule by knocking out their core curriculum requirements in math and science through summer course offerings.
Rebekah McCosby MPH’23 likes to describe herself as a generalist. She began her undergraduate degree studying nursing, but quickly realized it wasn’t for her and switched to biology. After graduation, she worked in a community retail pharmacy and then in a cancer research lab at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. She was always interested in the health sciences, but she found it hard to commit to any specific career path.
After Puget Sound University was dissolved for financial reasons in 1902, a new Tacoma institution, the University of Puget Sound, was reincorporated in 1903 on a campus at 6th and Sprague. Faced with competition from Whitworth College, then in the city’s North End, and Pacific Lutheran Academy in Parkland, Puget Sound President Edwin M.
The University of Puget Sound is hosting a business summit and panel discussion titled "Insights into the Changing Business Landscape of the Greater Seattle Area" on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Puget Sound Business Insights will take place at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Renowned science fiction writer Ted Chiang, whose short story "Story of Your Life" inspired the critically acclaimed movie Arrival, will be delivering a thought-provoking lecture on the topic of “Artificial Intelligence, Artifice, and Art.” The event will take place on April 2, 2024, at 7 p.m. in the Tahoma Room of Thomas Hall.
You wouldn’t know it walking past the little yellow house on the east side of the University of Puget Sound’s campus, but inside, there’s a room full of nutritious food, fresh produce, toiletries, and hygiene products. All of it is free to take for students who might otherwise not have enough to eat.
