Girls Rock

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…

Community

Puget Sound Pre-Med Student on a Mission To Provide Equal Access to Health Care

On a typical weeknight, you can find Capriana Jiang ’23 at the Neighborhood Clinic in Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood. Each night, the free clinic sees about a dozen patients…

Campus

The Creatures of Commencement Bay

“Do they bite?” It is an obvious question for one small, ponytailed visitor standing almost nose-to-beak with a common murre splayed on the dissecting table. The Puget Sound…

Community

A Natural Fit

It was the summer of 2005 and the 6-year-old’s first day at her grandmother’s booth at the Lacey Farmers Market. An assortment of lavender products—from lotion and perfume…

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…

Alumni

A Champion for Justice

Nicole swiftly became a champion of inclusivity and equity on the Puget Sound campus. As president of the…

Campus

Rethinking Take Back the Night

Community

Finding Magic at the Moon Festival

She’d led a parade of local children with red paper lanterns to a small bridge overlooking the Sound to close out the Tacoma Moon Festival, an annual event presented by…

Community

Educating the Community

Campus

Black Lives, Black Voices

For people of color, what happened wasn’t new—it was merely a reminder of what they have seen and experienced all their lives. To gain perspective, we asked three people to…