The School of Physical Therapy is partnering with Tacoma's Willie Stewart Academy to teach high school students about healthy habits and moving their bodies with intention.
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Note: An earlier version of this email incorrectly said that the Willie Stewart Academy partnered with the School of Occupational Therapy.
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On the latest episode of the Always a Logger podcast, host and producer Julie Gates ’90 interviews Seema Sueko-Low ’94 about theater and community-building.
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Eva Langenthal ’26 fuses art, science, and history for a senior capstone project charting the rise and fall of the iron lung as a treatment for patients with polio.
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Celebrating Alumni Excellence
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Mike Purdy ’76, MBA’79, who achieved a fulfilling career as a manager, historian, and writer, passed away in 2023 due to stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. As the recipient of the university’s first posthumous alumni award, Purdy will be remembered as a respected expert in presidential history and politics, as well as an intelligent optimist and deep listener.
Purdy arrived at Puget Sound in 1972; during the summer of 1973, he served as a congressional intern in Washington, D.C., at the same time as the Watergate scandal, which granted him access to the hearings of the Senate Watergate Committee — an experience that foreshadowed his lifelong interest in politics. In 1976, he graduated with a double major in business administration and public administration and served as student body president.
After graduation, Purdy worked as an admissions counselor, assistant director, and marketing director for Puget Sound before spending the next three decades managing government contracts for the City of Seattle, the Seattle Housing Authority, and the University of Washington. In 2010, he launched a successful public contracting consulting business. He also became a U.S. presidential historian, starting a website on the topic, writing two books, delivering lectures, and acting as a frequent media commentator. "As one who has always loved history, I have often said we make history every day in the small and big choices we make and who we decide to become," Purdy wrote in his 2023 memoir. "The history of our lives is the cumulation of innumerable decisions and actions."
Six Loggers who have made a meaningful impact in their professions, in their communities, and at the university will be honored with Puget Sound’s most prestigious alumni awards during Summer Reunion Weekend, June 5 to 7, 2026.
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Representing the University of Puget Sound on a global stage, 11 Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students and six faculty members recently traveled to Anaheim, California, earlier this semester, for the American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) Combined Sections Meeting (CSM). At the conference, Puget Sound earned the APTA Academy of Leadership and Innovation Social Responsibility Award for the School of Physical Therapy's partnership with the Willie Stewart Academy in Tacoma (see story above). The project, part of the research team led by Puget Sound Clinical Professor Danny McMillian, was presented by Kristin Hultgren DPT’26, Layla Santos DPT’26, Abi Koehn DPT’27, and Danny Jose DPT’27.
Other presentations focused on reducing injury rates in dancers, pediatric mobility for children with Down syndrome, and preventing falls in older adults.
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This weekend, President Isiaah Crawford threw out the first pitch at the Logger Women's Softball and Logger Men's Baseball home games to celebrate significant improvements to athletics facilities, including a new synthetic turf infield for the baseball field and accessibility improvements for the softball field.
"What you see here today is a direct reflection of what’s possible when a community believes in its students," said President Crawford. "This facility represents our commitment to providing outstanding student and fan experiences and to being a place where our scholar-athletes have access to the resources they need to compete at a high level, grow as leaders, and represent Puget Sound with pride."
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Americorps member Austyn Smith ’24 was featured in the Washington Service Corps Monthly Bulletin’s recent issue celebrating National Volunteer Week. Smith serves with the Washington Reading Corps and took time on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to participate in an environmental service project.
“The special memories and relations I made during this time proved to me in the present moment that when people come together to volunteer for an important cause, then so much good is put into the world,” Smith said. “As someone who experiences a lot of anxiety about the effects of climate change, that day provided a break from my worries and gave me a lot of hope for the future of our environment.”
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Legendary leader of the Puyallup Tribe and School of Education alumna Ramona Bennett Bill MEd’81, Hon.’00 visited campus to talk about her new memoir, Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe, as part of the Spring 2026 Indigenous History Series, sponsored by the Department of History, the Race & Pedagogy Institute, the Department of English, the School of Education, African American Studies, and the Puget Sound Memory Project.
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