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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…
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Alumni

A Bite of Tacoma

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Community

The Beta Coders

The central dilemmas of a generation might be understood by the assignments a good teacher gives her students. How can we tell if a website is reliable? is the topic in…
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Community

The Kids Are All Right

Under ordinary circumstances, Dana Levy ’21 has a lot going on.  Levy is double majoring in English and gender and queer studies (GQS) with a minor in music. He’s also…
Hands of two students participating with the FEPPS program.

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…
Two female students hold a large water-filtering apparatus on a dock at the Puget Sound

Community

Where Is the Methane in the Ocean Coming From?

Clarissa Troutman ’22 has spent a lot of time on the Puget Sound, hanging out with friends, but last summer she made repeated visits there for a different purpose: to…
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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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Community

Summer Scholars

Projects covered a range of topics: nonconformist gender presentation in stories of courtly love and other high medieval source material, disability justice and racial…
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…
Salmon at the South Prairie Creek Restoration site

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…