Sara Protasi, University of Puget Sound associate professor of philosophy, will expand her research on how courage and fear shape character and moral behavior thanks to a Teacher-Scholar Grant from the Educating Character Initiative at Wake Forest University. The grant will support her project, “Cultivating Courage in an Age of Fear,” and will help researchers understand how courage is acquired, especially in the context of intense political division.

For Reggie Westgate ’27, an email from Environmental Studies & Sciences Professor Kena Fox-Dobbs changed everything. It was an invitation to apply for the university’s Georneys (pronounced "journeys") trip to the Galápagos Islands, an opportunity he immediately jumped on.

The University of Puget Sound will host "Insights into the Changing World of Artificial Intelligence," a business summit and panel discussion, on Thursday, March 27, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel Seattle, 99 Union St., Seattle.

This year’s University of Puget Sound Business Insights event will explore the impact of artificial intelligence on business, providing insights into navigating the evolving AI environment. Topics will include disruptive technologies, emerging trends, and ethical considerations.

Aspiring lawyers in the South Sound will have greater access to immersive legal education and opportunities thanks to a new partnership between the University of Puget Sound and Seattle University School of Law. 

An event to inaugurate the partnership will be held on Puget Sound’s campus in Tacoma on Wednesday, March 26. More details to be announced soon.

Professor and Director of the School of Occupational Therapy Renee Watling has lived in Washington her entire life and spent 20 years as a practicing occupational therapist before taking the leap into teaching. She uses her clinical experience in pediatric neurodevelopment and her longstanding research into OT interventions for autism to help aspiring occupational therapists become confident practitioners. We recently sat down with Professor Watling to learn more about OT, her current research, and what students get out of the program.

From the classroom to the Capitol, the University of Puget Sound is making its voice heard. On Jan. 30, students and faculty joined a statewide advocacy day in Olympia, meeting with legislators alongside representatives from more than 100 colleges to champion sustained higher education funding and programs like the Washington College Grant. The experience offered students a firsthand lesson in civic engagement and the critical role of state support in their education.

Classes for a Changing World is a new regular feature in Arches that will spotlight one of the scores of inspiring, innovative, and timely courses offered each semester at Puget Sound.

David Moore is the go-to scholar on campus when it comes to questions about romantic relationships and what makes them work. He has been teaching and writing about adolescent and adult development, relationships, and teen parenting at Puget Sound since 2002, and has maintained a part-time clinical practice specializing in psychotherapy with individuals and couples. Alumni who attended the Jan. 16 Loggers Keep Learning event in Spokane, Wash., were treated to Moore’s presentation on thriving relationships and key predictors of relationship success.

If you ride a bike anywhere around Puget Sound, maybe this will sound familiar. You could be on Vashon Island, or sailing down 30th Street, or heading home from Mount Rainier. There might come a moment, a stretch of road, a bit of path. Maybe it lasts a few seconds, maybe a minute. You might cover half a block or half a mile. Dirt path or winding tarmac. You might be with friends or on your own. Often, it’s on the slightest of downhills, a feeling intensified if you’ve already gone up.