The coronavirus forced the cancellation of 2020–21 study abroad programs—including the long-running Dijon program that, for many French majors, satisfies a graduation requirement. So the program leaders had to get creative.

When most people think of a music composer, Tracy Doyle knows they usually think of a European white male. But she also understands how limiting that presumption can be. So, since starting as director of the School of Music last July, she has helped expand the school’s efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion. “Historically speaking, it’s been hard for people to step away from the European art-music canon,” says Doyle, 51, an accomplished flutist who came to her position from Adams State University in Colorado.

The pandemic provides multiple teaching moments for students looking at the nation’s food supply.

In honor of Puget Sound receiving a Tree Campus Higher Education designation from the Arbor Day Foundation, recognizing the university’s responsible stewardship of campus trees, we sought out an expert to help us get to know some of the evergreens and elms that greet Loggers every day. Enter Associate Professor of Biology (and resident Puget Sound tree expert) Carrie Woods, who set us straight on the role trees play on our campus and in the Pacific Northwest. Here are five things we learned:

Five questions with Sun Young Ahn, assistant professor of business

Colin Glaze ’22 investigates the effects of aluminum sulfate treatments on local lakes

Carroll’s current research explores the central role that science fiction fan culture has played in the resurgence of white nationalism. Another of his projects examines what it means to be a geek and how those qualities are seen in modern society. As a visiting professor in Puget Sound’s English department, he asks students to approach his classes with the same openness and creativity found in his research.

Five questions with Ameera Nimjee, assistant professor of ethnomusicology

Now, as a clinical assistant professor in Puget Sound’s Master of Education in counseling program and a marathon runner, she coaches future counselors by building personal connections and encouraging self-reflection.

For hundreds of thousands of people, it is a source of industry, sustenance, livelihood, and recreation. For painter and Professor of Art and Art History Elise Richman, it is also a source of inspiration.