1.  The Creative Future of AI

Producer and podcaster Hrishikesh Hirway will deliver the Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture in Public Affairs and the Arts on Tuesday, April 15, at 7 p.m. in Schneebeck Concert Hall.

2.  The Votes Are In

Iliana Barnes Diaz ’25 received the Governor’s Student Civic Leadership Award from the Washington Campus Coalition for the Public Good for her work with voter registration.

3.  Keep Moving Forward

In an article for the School of Education's blog, school counseling student Nicole Denning MEd’25 writes about choosing kindness and supporting students in difficult times.

A Lifetime of Insight

Alumna Dorothy Lewis ’70 made her name as a financial planner by jumping into the field with almost no plan at all. Lewis’ first career was as a high school business teacher by day and college business teacher at night. She also had a tax prep side hustle, where clients would ask her how to manage their money. Seeing a need, she quit her day job, withdrew the $1,000 in her teacher retirement account, bought a Sharp calculator, an IBM Selectric typewriter, and a used file cabinet, and began what is now Financial Insights Wealth Management in Tacoma. Lewis will receive Puget Sound's 2025 Lifetime Professional Achievement Award at Summer Reunion Weekend.

From Portraiture to Print

Priti Joshi, professor of English and Susan Resneck Pierce Professor of Humanities and Honors, has published a new article in the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. The article, titled “Copying Elites: The British Illustrated Press, Indian Portraiture, and Alienated Labor,” is Joshi’s first publication in an art history journal. The interdisciplinary article brings two very different media into conversation—portrait art from India and newspaper illustrations. 

“[In] recycling images from portraiture, newspapers were borrowing styles of visual referencing and replication that were standard practice in portraiture of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India,” Joshi writes. “And practices of copying across media and between India and Britain led to the erasure of the large army of both Indians and Britons who did the work of replication or translation.”

Reigning Champs

Puget Sound Crew has staked their claim once again at American Lake, winning the Lamberth Cup for the third consecutive year—and beating the Pacific Lutheran University women's team in their first meeting of the season. McKenna Kalkbrenner ’27 and Maddie Johnson ’25 were instrumental to the varsity eight's success, leading the team to their fastest time of the season.

Sex Ed

Growing up in small towns in Australia, Kelby Hunt ’21 had a strong feeling that she would pursue a career in healthcare. But she didn’t know what sort of career it would be. Her campus work-study job as a clinic assistant in Counseling, Health & Wellness Services (CHWS) offered her a glimpse at the kind of work she wanted to do. Her interest in reproductive issues and sexual health was piqued, and she was encouraged to apply to medical school with the goal of practicing as an OB/GYN.

"In the past, sexual health was taboo to talk about," Hunt says. "But it doesn’t do anyone any good to keep it hush-hush. Increasing awareness, talking about it, and educating people is important."

Hunt, now a fourth-year M.D./MPH student at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, was profiled by the school about her interest in academic medicine and how her experiences at Puget Sound impacted her career path.

Musical Chairs

It was a Logger reunion at the Society for American Music's National Conference, which was sponsored by Puget Sound. Among the alumni, faculty, and students who gathered for lunch during the conference were Abe Landa ’13, Daniel Vidales ’13, Robert Wrigley ’15, Jinshil Yi ’14, Prof. Gwynne Brown ’95, Prof. Emeritus Geoffrey Block, Esther Morgan-Ellis ’06, Grace Playstead ’25, and Dan Levy ’21. The conference included presentations by Wrigley, Brown, Morgan-Ellis, and Levy, and a recital at Kilworth Memorial Chapel.

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