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.

After studying physics in the Honors Program at Puget Sound, Regina Jorgenson ’98 dedicated her astrophysics career to exploring space, specifically galaxy formation and evolution. “I love astronomy because it has a built-in time machine,” says Jorgenson, who also has master’s and doctorate degrees in physics.

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. 

For nearly five decades, at the anniversary ceremony of the 1882 event when the U.S. Navy bombarded her Tlingit village of Aangóon, weaver and teacher Shgendootan George ’95 would hear village leaders ask: “Is there anyone here from the Navy to apologize?” The apology never came.