Washington state Speaker Laurie Jinkins will deliver the 2025 Commencement address and receive an honorary degree alongside Tacoma educator and youth advocate Willie Stewart.
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2. Accelerate Your Future
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Puget Sound offers an accelerated pathway, enabling highly motivated students to earn their degree in three years and fast-track their careers.
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3. Follow the Yellow Brick Road
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CONN 139: The Wizard of Oz, taught by Prof. Gwynne Brown ’95, connects the classic movie to the college experience, from forging friendships to facing unexpected challenges.
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Alumnus Keith Blocker ’12 was into a promising political career when he and his wife realized the turbulence following the murder of George Floyd created the opportunity to push for real institutional change. With his wife, Christina, he started Momentum Professional Strategy Partners, a Tacoma-based company helping businesses integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into a winning strategy, before the current backlash against DEI programs. But he’s used to overcoming hurdles. After moving to Tacoma before college, Blocker developed a form of macular degeneration that has left him legally blind. Undaunted, he went on after school to serve two terms on the Tacoma City Council, including serving as deputy mayor. Blocker will receive Puget Sound's 2025 Professional Achievement – Midcareer Alumni Award at Summer Reunion Weekend.
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Can you have an authentic romantic relationship with a chatbot? Professors of Philosophy Ariela Tubert and Justin Tiehen have published a new paper arguing that projects to create value alignment between humans and AI partners misses the point of authentic relationships, which promote self-knowledge and reflection. Tubert and Tiehen argue that some important features of authentic love require a capacity for value misalignment between romantic partners, something that developers of AI chatbots often overlook. The paper, titled "Authentic Artificial Love," appears in the journal Oxford Intersections: AI in Society.
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Sophomore sprinter Alex Rhodes ’27 was named the West Region Men's Track Athlete of the Year for NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field. The Portland, Oregon, native capped his indoor season in historic fashion, winning the 400-meter title at the 2025 NCAA DIII Indoor Championships and finishing third in the 200 meters. Rhodes' dominance in the 400-meter sprint was unparalleled this season. He recorded three of the four fastest times in Division III history, including a blistering 46.44-second performance, the second-fastest ever recorded at this level.
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Alumnus Ryan Chapman ’04 received a shout-out in Seattle Met, which published an article about books by penned by Washingtonians. Chapman’s 2019 debut novel Riots I Have Known made the list. The magazine described the novel as "like Nabokov live-blogging a prison riot."
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At the recent University of Puget Sound Business Insights event in Seattle, an alumni panel including Jeremy Korst ’97, Brian Marble ’00, and Mary Nelson ’04, MAT’05, answered questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the business landscape. Prof. Robin Jacobson moderated the discussion with alumni, students, parents, and local business leaders in attendance.
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