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.

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.