What We Do Podcast

Jess K. Smith '05, assistant professor of theatre arts and McKenna Johnson '18 talk about their experience living and working together on campus this past summer as part of the ARTBARN theater residency.

Regular listeners will recognize the voice of Chuck Luce, What We Do host and editor of "Arches" magazine. A few days before his retirement in May, Chuck sat down with Cathy Tollefson ’83, P’17, associate editor and guest host, to share some of his favorite behind-the-scenes stories from nearly 20 years at the helm of "Arches."

Should we keep someone on life support to gestate her fetus? What is brain death, anyway? This week we're joined by Professor Suzanne Holland and two of the students in her Practicum in Clinical Bioethics, who spent the semester navigating these and other real-life ethical questions both in the classroom and at Tacoma General Hospital.

Guest host Presley Reed ’18 chats with Puget Sound tour guides Clara Brown '17 and Bobby Stewart '18 on Facebook Live, answering admitted students' questions about life as a Logger, ranging from food and frats to studying and the social scene on campus. #pugetsoundbound

In the mid-1990s, Congress eliminated all federal funding for college in prison. The prison system is filled with people who have never had access to higher education opportunities, the vast majority of whom come from under-resourced communities and communities of color. Freedom Education Project Puget Sound aims to change that. Program co-founder Professor Tanya Erzen and volunteer Carsen Nies ’17 talk about the benefits of providing educational opportunities to incarcerated women, for both the inmates and Puget Sound students.

This week we have a special guest host, Simone Moore '20. Simone is an Adelphian singer, and this week she sat down with Rob Hutchinson, Professor of Music Theory and Composition, to talk about "Take Time," a piece he composed to commemorate the inauguration of President Isiaah Crawford.

Baseball is back! To mark the start of the 2017 Major League Baseball season, we interviewed Professor Emeritus of English Robert Garratt on his new book "Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants." A six-year-long labor, Home Team is more than a history of the franchise. It tells stories of relationships between team and town, and especially between players and management. In researching the book Rob interviewed the likes of Felipe Alou, Dusty Baker, Willie Mays, and many other baseball luminaries.

On March 24, 2017, Isiaah Crawford was officially inaugurated as Puget Sound's 14th president during a daylong celebration for students, alumni, faculty and staff members, parents, community members, and distinguished guests from across the country. Be there as President Crawford delivers his inaugural address, and listen in as he shares his vision for the college's future.

Recently The Posse Foundation led a weekend retreat for about 80 members of the campus community. Designed to create a safe space for dialogue through interactive and challenging workshops, the retreat brought together a cross section of the campus community to talk about an important national and campus issue: why do we have an us vs. them mentality right now? Posse Scholar Simone Moore '20 and senior Sam Carp '17 sat down with us to talk about their experience attending the retreat.

Associate Professor of Biology Mark Martin, aka The Microbe Whisperer, joins us this week to talk about the oldest form of life on Earth. He also shares some of the creative ways his students are approaching scientific topics using art. Check out his blog for more: http://microbesrule.blogspot.com