AI and Privacy aims to bring together scholars, practitioners, technologists, and policymakers to examine the rapidly evolving challenges and possibilities at the intersection of artificial intelligence and data sharing. The symposium explores how the algorithmic turn is reshaping longstanding privacy concerns, from biometric and biological data (“bioprivacy”) to creative and cultural domains. Sessions will investigate emerging privacy risks, shifting social norms, and the ways AI is transforming what counts as private, knowable, and controllable.

The Mortar Board Last Lecture Series chooses a retiring faculty member to give a talk on a topic of their choice. Dr. Lisa Nunn will be retiring this spring after a career teaching in the Economics department, from which she earned her bachelor's degree.

Dmitri Brown '12, Assistant Professor of North American History at UC Berkeley, will present his research on a Tewa Pueblo history of the Manhattan Project. 

A rich multidisciplinary panel discussion on the topic of memory.  

Join us for a rich multidisciplinary panel discussion exploring these topic questions:  

Do you like playing outside? Well you’re in luck!! 

Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society will be hosting our annual Spring Faculty Lecture, where Professor Joel Eklof will be presenting “Everything I Need to Know, I Learned From Playing Outside.” Refreshments will be provided, and remember, all PES members get 50 points for attending, and extra points for bringing a friend (or two… or three!). This event is open to ALL!

We can’t wait to see you there!

The PES National Honor Society is pleased to have Dr. Joel Eklof giving our annual spring lecture. His topic will be "Everything I need to know, I learned from playing outside". Refreshments will be provided.

To close out Black History Month, African American Studies is proud to host nationally and internationally renowned researcher and educator, Dr. Joy Angela DeGruy, on the Puget Sound campus. Dr. DeGruy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication, a Master's degree in Social Work (MSW), a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology, and a PhD in Social Work Research. She authored the book entitled “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing”, which addresses the residual impacts of trauma on African Descendants in the Americas.

African American Studies hosts alum and founder of the Black Student Union, Louis Smith ‘69, to share insights from his experiences as one of the first Black student-athletes at Puget Sound during the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s. The conversation will be moderated by African American Studies alum Donovan Wilson '22.

Andrew Ryder, Director of the Institute for Political and International Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, will be presenting his talk "Resisting Authoritarianism: Personal Reflections of University Life in Victor Orban’s Hungary."