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T o p F i v e T h i n g s

1. All About Energy

Physics prof. Amy Spivey will deliver a lecture on solar energy and photovoltaic energy conversion at the Daedalus Dinner, an evening of scholarship and debate, April 17.

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2. High Drama

The Senior Theatre Festival continues with The Lady’s Not for Burning by Christopher Fry, directed by Hanna Woods ’19, April 19–20 at Norton Clapp Theatre.

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3. Peer Power

One in four women is sexually assaulted during college, and 90% don’t report it. Emily Katz ’18 and Alex Keysselitz ’18 made it their mission to change that.

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4. Money for Studies

Puget Sound has been named one of Money’s 2019 Best Colleges for Merit Scholarships. The 50 ranked colleges award merit grants to one in four students.

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5. National Nod

The American Physical Therapy Association announced that physical therapy prof. Jennifer Hastings won the 2019 Henry O. and Florence P. Kendall Practice Award.

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N e w F a c e s

Welcome, Mark!

Mark Eschbach has joined Technology Services as a digital media specialist. He has a degree in sound design and has worked as an audio engineer at Scottsdale Community College and Tempe Center for the Arts, and as a senior technology support specialist at Mesa Community College in Arizona. When not on campus, Mark writes and records music in his studio and hangs out with his wife and two dogs.

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DID YOU KNOW? The Tuskegee Airmen of WWII are famous for being the first African American military pilots. But it was one man, former U.S. Air Force pilot Marlon Green, who fought to end discrimination in commercial airline cockpits. After a six-year legal battle with Continental Airlines, he won a landmark 1963 Supreme Court case that allowed black pilots to fly passenger airplanes.

Read about aviation pioneer Edward Horne ’70 in Arches.

I n s i d e S c o o p

Take Back the Night
A rally and march to bring awareness to how sexual violence affects our community will be held April 17, starting at Rasmussen Rotunda at 8:30 p.m.

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H a c k s & C h o p s

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UFO-ology
Are we alone in the galaxy, or is there life beyond Earth? Bernard Bates, Puget Sound instructor of physics, says the probability of intelligent life elsewhere is extremely high—as in 100%. What’s more, aliens seem to visit the Pacific Northwest most often, according to the National UFO Reporting Center and Hotline.

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U p c o m i n g E v e n t s

April 17
Weyerhaeuser Colloquium: "Health, Well-Being, and Excellence: Insights From the Frontiers of Human Performance"

April 18
Seminar: "The Evolution and Development of Jaw Protrusion in Fishes"

April 18
Symphony Orchestra: The Heroic: In Memory and Dreams

April 20
Men's Tennis vs. PLU

April 20
Spring Egg Hunt

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