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When you enter Collins Memorial Library on a regular day, it’s usually filled with students finding reference materials or working quietly, but one evening in early November, this was not the case. Instead, small groups of people sat in various spots throughout the first floor, having lively conversations. And the reference materials being checked out were not books, but people.

When it rains, it pours.

And it poured most of the weekend while students from Puget Sound’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity raced to build a tiny house for the homeless in two days—but they didn’t let a little “liquid sunshine” dampen their spirits.

Under the microscope in neuroscience professor Siddharth Ramakrishnan’s lab, the tiny heart of a Japanese rice fish embryo was beating.

And the group of fifth-grade visitors from Tacoma’s McCarver Elementary School had questions. “When will they be born?” one student asked. “How long does it take for them to grow up?” asked another.

On a recent late-winter evening at the North Tacoma home of Jill Nelson Jackson ’84 and Martin Jackson ’84, a tradition was being revived.