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Nick Brody, asst. prof. of communication studies, will give the Daedalus lecture “Bullies, Breakups, and Bystanders: How Technology Affects and Reflects Social Life” on Nov. 26.
Puget Sound Outdoors and the Mountaineers have curated a Banff Mountain Film Festival selection for Tacomans. Catch it Nov. 26 and 27 at the Rialto Theater.
President Crawford is embarking on a coast-to-coast tour to present an exciting new vision for Puget Sound. Join him in a city near you, starting on Nov. 29 in Tacoma.
Puget Sound students won first and second place in the Environmental Challenge at the Association of Waste Management environmental conference in Nanaimo, B.C.
Elize Hellam has joined the experiential learning department as the new e-portfolios program manager. She’s passionate about integrating technology into education to encourage creativity, innovation, and collaboration, and in 2017 was honored as an Apple Distinguished Educator.
DID YOU KNOW? Twenty-seven Puget Sound alumni have traveled the world as Watson Fellows since 1993. The Watson Foundation awards them $30,000 to explore their deepest interests, with one catch: They aren’t allowed to set foot back in the U.S. for a year.
Honors Program Food Drive Got extra dining dollars? Donate them! St. Leo Food Connection helps the 25 percent of Washington children who live in households that struggle to put food on the table.
Found Sound Field recordings captured by Megan Mitchell ’12 throughout the PNW lend “atmospheric disturbance” to Disambiguation, her experimental music project as Cruel Diagonals. She became attuned to the power of archives while music director of KUPS.
