Logger student-athletes will benefit on and off the field from a historic gift to the university. The Tom and Meg Names Family Foundation has committed $10 million—the largest single gift in the university’s 134-year history—to the Puget Sound endowment. The gift will add to the existing Tom and Meg Names Family Foundation Endowed Fund for Athletics and create a new fund to support the health, wellness, and development— both personal and professional—of Logger student-athletes.

President Isiaah Crawford calls the gift “transformational.”

Q: Puget Sound athletics just received a huge boost: a historic $10 million gift. What will that make possible?

TACOMA, Wash. – University of Puget Sound has once again been named among the colleges and universities that produce the most Fulbright U.S. Students. Each year, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces the top producing institutions for the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program.

The first year of college is hard. It’s even harder when you’re the only person from your family—maybe the only person you know—to pursue a college degree. Whether writing papers, declaring a major, or living with someone you just met, making the transition to college life can be more than a little intimidating. That’s where Student Success Advisor Najhan Bell steps in. A recent college graduate herself, Bell helps students, and first-generation college students in particular, adjust to life at Puget Sound and succeed academically.

When a catastrophic equipment failure struck the computational chemistry lab, Max and his fellow students acted quickly. In the span of a week, the team used their collective know-how to build a complex hardware and software system from scratch to get the lab up and running again. Max, an experienced computer builder, led the assembly of three new computers and increased the system’s existing power by more than 10 times in the process.

Q: A theme I hear a lot around here is “belonging.”What’s your take on the importance of making people feel welcome at Puget Sound?