News, events, and stories from University of Puget Sound.
1. Tools for Career Success
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Intelligent.com has ranked Puget Sound's graduate programs among the best in the nation for 2025, underscoring the university's commitment to a high quality education.
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2. A Transformative Internship
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Ishaan Gollamudi ’26 spent his summer participating in a highly coveted internship at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researching new gene therapies to treat cancer.
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3. The Forgotten History of the Electoral College
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Historian Carolyn Dupont will lecture on her new book, Distorting Democracy, which explores the Electoral College’s origins, history, and current problems on Nov. 18 at 6 p.m.
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A Doctor and a Filmmaker Walk Into a Movie Theatre...
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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 mixes humor and personal experience to analyze the way mental health is portrayed in film and television. Arches recently caught up with the Joneses to talk about how their academic backgrounds influence their approach to cinema.
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Professor Emerita of History Suzanne Barnett was quoted in an article in The News Tribune about the centennial of Tacoma's Franke Tobey Jones retirement community. An early supporter of Puget Sound, Jones was deeply engaged in the Tacoma community. Jones Hall on campus is named in her honor.
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The Logger Women's Soccer team closed out their season with a 3–0 win over Whitworth with Leila Hausia-Haugen ’26, Zoe Witter ’27, and Emma Pack ’27 scoring goals and goalkeeper Gianna Maldonado recording her sixth clean sheet of the season. The Loggers end the season in second place in the Northwest Conference.
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An Exercise in Citizenship
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Alumna Elizabeth Shatswell ’24 was quoted in an story by OPB about how formerly incarcerated people face barriers to voting after they're released from prison. Shatswell is a Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS) graduate who completed the first three-fourths of her Puget Sound education in prison before finishing her degree on campus. She was able to vote for the first time in Washington's primary election.
"I’m carrying all the people that can’t vote in my vote,” she told OPB. “And that’s an honor."
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Over the weekend, the Department of Theatre Arts wrapped up a production of Oscar Wilde's classic play The Importance of Being Earnest in Norton Clapp Theatre. A perennial favorite, the play addresses the farce and pathos of gender norms, social roles, and self-knowledge.
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