2025 DPT Research Symposium

We are looking forward to sharing our Doctoral student research with you at the 2025 DPT Research Symposium.

 The symposium will take place in Tahoma Hall on November 1 from 9:00am to 12:00pm.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Continuing education credit eligible event! 

School of Occupational Therapy Hosts CLASI

Module 3 provides hands-on practice and review of all aspects of sensory integration and praxis with a variety of assessments that were introduced in Module 2. During the onsite Module 3, participants will have an opportunity to clarify any questions they have about the information presented in the online instruction, practice assessment administration and scoring with peers, and, when possible, practice the assessments with children brought into the course.

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Daedalus Lecture with George Erving

The Daedalus Lecture Series carves out a space for academic discussion, offering both a platform for sharing innovative work and the opportunity to come together as a diverse scholarly community. Rather than a teaching lecture, the presentations are conceived as a way to converse with and learn from one another in ways that enrich our community and broaden our interdisciplinary knowledge. Daedalus Lectures are intended to facilitate the sharing of research among colleagues.

Swope Endowed Lecture: Dr. Vanessa Gomez Brake

The Swope Endowed Lecture supports speakers, artists, and lecturers to visit Puget Sound to deepen our engagement with issues related to faith, ethics, values, and religion in society.  For Fall 2025, we are excited to welcome Dr. Vanessa Gomez Brake, the Senior Associate Dean for Religious and Spiritual Life at the University of Southern California. Dr. Gomez Brake's keynote address is titled "At the Intersections of Faith, Identity, and Power: Disrupting Christian Hegemony in Higher Education."   The lecture is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.

Regester Lecture with Ariela Tubert & Justin Tiehen

Artificial Intelligence (AI) romantic companions are increasingly used today, with a recent poll estimating that almost one third of Americans have had a romantic relationship with an AI model. “I’d divorce and leave my husband for ChatGPT, if he could be put in a physical body,” exclaimed a recent Reddit post that gathered attention. And yet, despite this, and despite their apparently impressive intelligence in various domains, none of the leading AI models of today are conscious, according to our best theories of consciousness.