If there’s anyone whose career demonstrates the value of the liberal arts, it’s Tony Gómez ’93. 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 producer.
A summer volunteer experience before her first year in college got Anna Dunlap ’16 hooked on Thailand. Now she works as director of recruitment and development for Teach Thailand Corps, placing U.S. college graduates in underdeveloped provinces to teach English and other subjects to schoolkids.
He’s one of the groundskeepers responsible for keeping our trees healthy and growing—and he takes that job personally.
“My favorite tree is the one I’m working on,” Lambert says. “Each tree is an individual, so there’s a relationship you form with it as you’re pruning.”
In honor of Puget Sound receiving a Tree Campus Higher Education designation from the Arbor Day Foundation, recognizing the university’s responsible stewardship of campus trees, we sought out an expert to help us get to know some of the evergreens and elms that greet Loggers every day. Enter Associate Professor of Biology (and resident Puget Sound tree expert) Carrie Woods, who set us straight on the role trees play on our campus and in the Pacific Northwest. Here are five things we learned:
