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China trip renews Puget Sound ties with Fuzhou college

History, art, culture — and a typhoon. When five University of Puget Sound students and two faculty members traveled to China in July 2024, they encountered it all. During…
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Community

Breaking Down the Walls

It’s a typical classroom scene, where other students sit in rows of desks chattering about scatter plots and independent variables, and bulletin boards…
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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…
Student Chloe Bouchy ’21 tends to vegetables in the Puget Sound Garden

Campus

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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Campus

Spreading the Aloha Spirit

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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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Campus

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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Alumni

Salmon Stories

Perched on a log above the Mashel River a few miles from the Puget Sound campus, Daniel Sherman explains the complex and often harrowing plight of perhaps the most iconic…
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Community

Learning From Destruction

Known for the thousands of logs that float on its surface as a reminder of the eruption’s destruction, Spirit Lake received the full force of Mount St. Helens’ blast. Not…
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Community

Are You My MAMU?

Browns Point Lighthouse Park is remarkably silent on a Tuesday morning in late July. The gentle waves of the Puget Sound, tamed further by the embrace of Tacoma’s…