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T o p T h r e e T h i n g s

1. Investing in the Future

President Isiaah Crawford advocates for increasing Pell Grants and opening “the doors of college and opportunity to low- and moderate-income students” in The News Tribune.

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2. The Artist’s Way

Embracing the unexpected in life and art, abstract painter William Turner ’65 often paints while listening to jazz, whose rhythm and improvisation influence his work.

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3. Top College

Puget Sound was recently named to the Forbes 2021 Top Colleges list and ranked among the list’s top 100 small colleges in the country.

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P e o p l e o f P u g e t S o u n d

Adaptation
When COVID-19 kept Stacey Weiss from returning to her study site in southeast Arizona last year, the William L. McCormick Professor of Natural Sciences found locations not far from Tacoma where she could continue her research on the microbiomes of lizards—specifically, the protective microbes that female lizards pass on during egg-laying. We asked Weiss about adapting her research, the joys of collaborating with undergrads, and why swabs and miniature lassos are essential to her work.

READ OUR Q&A WITH PROF. STACEY WEISS

I n s i d e S c o o p

Travel = Testing
Students, faculty, and staff who travel overnight during fall break (i.e., outside the immediate area) are required to participate in the campus asymptomatic saliva testing program three to five days after their return to campus. Pick up your test kit on the second floor of Wheelock Student Center, across from Room 208. If you experience symptoms of COVID-19 when you return from fall break travel, self-quarantine until you have received a negative PCR test result.

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Illustrations by Stacy Milrany

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

Oct. 18–19
Fall break

Oct. 20
Exercise Is Medicine on Campus campus walk

Oct. 20
Equity and Diversity Town Hall Meeting

Oct. 22
Concert: Jazz Orchestra, Tracy Knoop, conductor

MORE EVENTS

P u g e t S o u n d i n P i c t u r e s

President Philip Phibbs, dressed as The Great Pumpkin, makes an appearance at a pumpkin-carving contest in what is now Wheelock Student Center in October 1978.

JUST WAIT AND SEE, CHARLIE BROWN Puget Sound’s Tour and Travel Committee sponsored a pumpkin-carving contest in what is now known as Wheelock Student Center on Thursday, Oct. 26, 1978. Making an appearance as The Great Pumpkin was President Philip Phibbs, who “gave a short speech, presented Dean [Tom] Davis with his very own security blanket, then threw candies to the crowd,” according to the Nov. 3, 1978, issue of The Trail. The contest was won by the Learning Skills Center, early predecessor to what is now the Center for Writing and Learning.

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