Faculty, Students

How Caleb Van Boven ’19 is making a scientific contribution through summer research

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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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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…
View along the East Rapti River, which is the border between Chitwan National Park and the Meghauli village area where NTT works.

Faculty

Puget Sound Students Support Tiger Conservation in Nepal

In the lowlands of Nepal, near the Indian border, humans and tigers have coexisted for centuries. After years of declining numbers, tiger populations are now growing,…
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Faculty

Going Polar

Last summer, two Puget Sound faculty members received some exciting news. They’d won a National Science Foundation grant to develop new course modules that would allow…

Faculty

Moss Goggles

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…
Steven Neshyba and Max Bloom ’24

Campus

Life Lessons in the Lab and Beyond

When a catastrophic equipment failure struck the computational chemistry lab, Max and his fellow students acted quickly. In the span of a week, the team used their…
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Campus

If Monkeys Could Talk

Late one evening in a Thompson Hall classroom, roughly a dozen students gathered to hear Puget Sound psychology professor Erin Colbert-White give a…
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Campus

Reacting to the Past

According to the scripts in their hands, they were oligarchs, generals, landowners, citizens, women, and slaves, all locked within the besieged walls of Athens. There was…
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Faculty

No Passport Necessary

In a year when COVID-19 created health concerns worldwide—and made international travel next to impossible—it made sense that Puget Sound had to cancel its study abroad…