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Matelich Scholarships Awarded to Outstanding Boulder and Boise Students

TACOMA, Wash. – Incoming first-year students Mercer Stauch of Niwot, Colo., and Alex Bude of Boise…

Lillis Scholarships Awarded to Outstanding Portland and San Diego Students

Tacoma, Wash. – Incoming first-year students Nora Panoscha of Portland, Ore., and Dominique…

Birds, Climate, and Redlining Intersect in University of Puget Sound Student’s Research

It’s 6 a.m. in Tacoma’s North End neighborhood, and everything is quiet except for the whistling of…

Truly a Rocket Scientist

Cynthia Bixby ’86 is now chief engineer at NASA’s…

Instructor, Coach, Mentor

After a decade as a high school English teacher, Molly Pugh MAT’03 joined University of Puget Sound…

A Sense of Belonging

Q: A theme I hear a lot around here is “belonging.”…

University of Puget Sound student advocates for Black voices

In early August, with the summer sun high overhead downtown Tacoma, Chloe Pargmann-Hayes ’24…

Ask the Expert: Kris Hay

Kris Hay, who has worked in Career and Employment Services for more than 20 years, has compiled a…

University of Puget Sound student uncovers the history of Cuban refugees in the Pacific Northwest

Growing up in Portland, Ore., Bella Rodriguez ’24 was struck by the absence of Latino stories in…

Physics Students at University of Puget Sound Build a Plasma Chamber

Ella Slattery ’25 had only been on campus for a few weeks when she laid eyes on the plasma chamber…

University of Puget Sound student helps baseball players refine their pitching technique

It’s midmorning at Driveline Baseball, a performance training facility in Kent, Wash., and Kevin…

Five Questions With Associate Professor of Philosophy Sara Protasi

The discipline of philosophy is more than 2,500 years old, but it still has plenty to say about how…