Join members of the Latine Alumni Union, Sin Fronteras student club, and university staff and faculty at the annual Welcome Back Dinner.

All are welcome to this casual, celebratory gathering within the Jewish tradition to mark the close of Shabbat. Led by student leaders from the Jewish Student Union and the University Chaplaincy.

If your financial aid award includes federal or state work-study, you are required to attend this session.

You will receive your job referral notification and learn about procedures, expectations, and benefits of on-campus employment. Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in and pick up your federal or state work-study employment packet.

Come connect with your Success Coaches who will support your first year on campus.

Meet your new fellow transfer students and members of campus leadership. Academic Advising & the Registrar’s Office will present information specific to the transfer experience at Puget Sound.

Learn tips and tricks for navigating Puget Sound and hear about experiential learning opportunities available to Puget Sound students, including internships, study abroad/away, community-based learning, and summer research.

This session helps new students better understand the expectations we hold as Loggers for each other. We will talk about student rights and responsibilities, being part of a sustainable campus, and cover important Title IX information.

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.

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.

If you love music composed by Antonio Vivaldi, we hope you can join us for this concert featuring student violinists from the university's Community Music Department who will perform as soloists accompanied by their peers.

This energetic program will take place in Schneebeck Concert Hall at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 30, 2025.  

Admission is free. No tickets required.