Sun shines on Puget Sound's 120th Commencement exercises

Hundreds of grads and their families celebrated Commencement weekend with ceremonies, receptions, parties, and SUN! See photos and other highlights of the day.

Commencement photos.

Generous gift funds new Jennie M. Caruthers Chair in Neuroscience

Educator and researcher Siddharth Ramakrishnan of Columbia University will assume the newly endowed chair in neuroscience at Puget Sound beginning in January.

More about Professor Ramakrishnan.

VOICES
  • April 23, 2012

    Helen Shears '12: Spring, social sciences, and ...

    I finished the first draft of my thesis. I shut myself away for fifty hours during spring break and wrote and and wrote and wrote. After that, I made the words readable.  Upon turning it in and receiving mostly positive feedback, I congratulated myself by not thinking about Anne Boleyn or King Henry VIII for two whole weeks. I know. It was amazing.

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  • May 14, 2012

    Alayna Schoblaske '11: Post-grad in pictures

    A recent graduate looking to chronicle my life in one photo each day for 365 days. August 22, 2011 through August 22, 2012. Here's to a year's worth of photographic adventures.
    Am I attending the 21-and-over retirement party for one of my favorite Chemistry professors in the fall? Oh. Heck. Yes.

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  • May 10, 2012

    CSOC: Catching up with Jessy Arends '10

    A little bird told me that Jessy has just been accepted into an Anthropology graduate program. I asked her for a detailed and blog-appropriate update.
    I never thought I would live in the South.  More so, I never thought I would live in the Deep South.  I never thought I’d live in rural Mississippi, in a town with a population of 24,324.

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  • May 9, 2012

    Annie Bigalke '13: Grasslands

    Here we looked how the city of Paragominas has created a form of registry (CAR) to monitor land use and create pressure for landowners to conserve 50% of the land for reforestation. We walked around a cattle ranch to see the grass fields and conserved rainforest.

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