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It seems unlikely that completing an internship at a children’s museum and science center in Albuquerque, N.M., would lead to a job communicating important public health information with the residents of Tacoma, Wash., but that’s exactly the path Altynai Watson ’21 has taken.

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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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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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Girls Rock

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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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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

Summer School

Last spring, 80 students were selected to receive summer research grants to support 10 weeks of independent research in the sciences or humanities under the guidance of a…
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Campus

Spreading the Aloha Spirit

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Community

The Enterprising Intern

Will spent last summer as a marketing and communications intern at World Trade Center Tacoma as part of Puget Sound's Reflective Immersive Sophomore Experience (RISE)…

Community

Sewing To Curb the Spread

“It feels good to help,” Zoe Love ’23 said over a Zoom call from her childhood bedroom in Evergreen, Colo. Like a lot of current students, Zoe is trying to make sense of…
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Community

University of Puget Sound student advocates for Black voices

In early August, with the summer sun high overhead downtown Tacoma, Chloe Pargmann-Hayes ’24 climbed the steps of Tollefson Plaza with a paint roller in hand to help put the…