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Shining a Light on 'The Lady of the Lamp'

Florence Nightingale was the ultimate multi-hyphenate: a nursing pioneer, visionary statistician, social reformer, researcher, author, and adventurer, all at a time when…

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A New Org Chart for Orcas?

SCIENCE CAREER Morin enrolled at Puget Sound with an eye on being a veterinarian, but fell in love with…

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A Doctor and a Filmmaker Walk into a Movie Theatre…

When brothers Joshua ’98 and Jeffrey Jones ’02 watch a movie or a TV show, they pay attention to wildly different things. The Jones brothers host Cinemental, a podcast that…

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A Community Champion

Blocker will receive the 2025 Professional Achievement – Midcareer Alumni Award during Summer Reunion Weekend in…

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Inside the Brain of Scott Bateman '86

He’d long harbored an affinity for the bizarre comedy of Monty Python and experimental filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and would frequently play those movies…

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Cloud Pleaser

Margaret Dawson ’86 used to have an office at Red Hat, the open-source software giant where she’s vice president of product marketing. It was at the company’s…

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The Drunken Tenor

Robert McPherson ’91 has been singing since he was a very young boy. “I was a preacher’s kid. I grew up singing gospel,” he says.  Decades have passed since he…

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Concussions? There's an App for That

Back then, says Curtiss, who graduated as one of the leading three-point shooters in school history, the treatment was still pretty rudimentary, and trainers often relied on…

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A Sound Past

A Sound Past chronicles through historic photographs the people, buildings, events, athletics, and campus environment that make the University of Puget Sound such a unique…

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That Voice You Hear: Five To Remember

Joe Biden, presidential candidate, December 2019 “It was my first time in conversation with someone who would go on to be president. We were on the campaign bus on the way…