William “Bill” Neukom P ’94, a University of Puget Sound trustee emeritus and philanthropist, died July 14, 2025, in Seattle. He was 83.

University of Puget Sound chemistry major and Logger football quarterback Hayden Teeter ’26 has earned a nomination for the 2025 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. The award recognizes college football student-athletes for their commitment to community service and leadership off the field.

The COPE Health Scholars Program offers pre-healthcare students access to direct patient care and hospital administrative areas at partnering hospitals. Participants become valuable members of the care team, working alongside nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals while earning completion certificates through the University of Puget Sound.

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Several Logger faculty and alumni will be featured at the upcoming Art Party Festival in Darrington, Washington. The outdoor festival includes 24 hours of art installations, dance, music, workshops, theatre, readings, and interactive experiences. The festival is co-produced by Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts Jess K Smith ’05 and includes work by Assistant Professor of Art & Art History Dr. Mare Hirsch, and Jordan Moeller ’15. Participants are invited to take in the many forms of art, camp on site, join in a festival-wide meal, and dance the night away.

Inside a red brick building on Tacoma’s Hilltop, the Neighborhood Clinic opens its doors twice a week, offering free medical care to those in need. It’s here that Cecilia Turetzky ’26 turned a community need into action — launching a mobile blood pressure clinic and earning recognition from Washington’s governor.

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The University of Puget Sound has received a $1,050,000 gift from Richard N. Laurance ’74 to establish the Puget Sound Endowed Fund for the university’s crew program. The endowment will provide unrestricted support for the Loggers, helping sustain the school’s 60-plus-year tradition of competitive rowing.

In 2009, the University of Puget Sound awarded honorary degrees at the commencement ceremony to 36 Japanese American students whose education was abruptly stopped when they were sent to relocation camps in 1942.