Reflections From the Pacific Rim

Community

Good Doggos

Community

Justice Is Not Easy

The 17 students, variously clad in busted-knee jeans, leggings, hiking boots, puffer jackets, and a lone plaid flannel shirt, were pretty quiet for the first 25 minutes as…

Community

Educating the Community

Arches

A Journey to Africa

This is an expanded version of the roundtable discussion that appeared in the spring 2020 issue of Arches. The history of Ghana, on Africa’s western coast, is, in…

Students

Pandemic Podcasters

For students who started college in fall 2020, the first semester of their first year was nothing like they expected. Unable to live on campus or take in-person courses,…

Campus

Viet Thanh Nguyen and the Memory of War

Author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s earliest memories are of being separated from his parents. The hazy recollections of his family’s escape from Vietnam in 1975 and arrival in the…

Students

University of Puget Sound Students Awarded Prestigious Grants and Scholarships

Every year, University of Puget Sound students are selected to receive highly competitive grants, awards, scholarships, and fellowships which enable them to continue their…

Students

University of Puget Sound Student Searches for Planets Around Distant Stars

It’s a cold, clear night in the pitch-black dome of the observatory at University of Puget Sound. In the dark, Austin Glock ’23 makes minute adjustments to the telescope by…

Campus

Lillis Scholarship Awarded to Outstanding California Students

TACOMA, Wash. – The University of Puget Sound is proud to announce Oliver Wright of Granada Hills, California, and Maya Gomez of Rocklin, California, as the recipients of…

Campus

Ten Women Make History at University of Puget Sound FEPPS Graduation Ceremony

On a cloudy Saturday morning, the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor buzzed with an unusual air of celebration. The atmosphere inside the prison walls was…