Over the next four years, she studied under a world-class pianist, Duane Hulbert, at the University of Puget Sound. As a first-year student she was “badgered into excellence” by a senior who convinced her to practice for five hours a day, and she graduated feeling burned out.

On a recent cold and wet Monday evening, nearly 100 Tacoma residents shifted in the creaking pews of Puget Sound’s Kilworth Memorial Chapel as Dexter Gordon, professor of African American studies, introduced Victoria Woodards, the new mayor of Tacoma. 

Student researchers Shelby Kantner ’18 and Matthew Gulick ’18 want you to know that for each gallon of hot water in those millions of daily showers, the heating fuel used sends 1.92 pounds of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. That’s a chunk of Co2 the weight of six iPhone 7s.

Last summer, two Puget Sound faculty members received some exciting news. They’d won a National Science Foundation grant to develop new course modules that would allow students to explore and experience real data collected by Arctic and Antarctic scientists.

Many Tacoma residents may not be aware that one of the country’s largest immigration detention centers is in their city. Evan Eurs ’18 certainly wasn’t before he began an internship with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), in partnership with Puget Sound’s Summer Immersion Internship Program.