Community, Faculty, Arches
Community, Faculty, Arches

Chemist Dan Burgard is at the forefront of an exciting—and stinky—field: wastewater analysis

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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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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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Community

Where Is Tacoma's 'Chinatown'?

Tacoma had fewer than 1,000 residents in 1876, when Tak Nam and Lum May opened their mercantile shop, Sam Hing Co., on what is now Commerce Street at 9th Avenue. The…
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…
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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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Community

Good Doggos

Tony Gomez ’93 (holding a Neapolitan tambourine called a tammorra)

Alumni

A Nonlinear Career

Today, he’s associate director of education at Tacoma Arts Live, but his career also has included being a K-12 teacher, arts administrator, percussionist, and PBS education…

Alumni

A Sound Past

A Sound Past chronicles through historic photographs the people, buildings, events, athletics, and campus environment that make the University of Puget Sound such a unique…
Professor of Philosophy Ariela Tubert

Faculty

Ask the Expert: Ariela Tubert

Ariela Tubert, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy, has long been interested in the ethics of artificial intelligence. Since 2022, Tubert and her spouse,…
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Faculty

Field School Remix

Lizz and several other students from the University of Puget Sound had left Seattle at 2 a.m., and arrived two days later. “There was just this moment of elation, of…