The University of Puget Sound (UPS) will remove the name of a former professor and proponent of "eugenics" from the school's museum of natural history. The UPS Board of Trustees voted unanimously on May 12 to remove the name "Slater" from the Slater Museum of Natural History. The vote approved a recommendation from UPS President Isiaah Crawford, after a student request and subsequent review by a committee. The Museum of Natural History was named after James R. Slater in 1979. Slater taught biology at the school from 1919 to 1951. Concerns about Slater's background were brought to the attention of the university after a student researcher, Grace Eberhardt, submitted a paper to the school president's office in the fall of 2021. Read more: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tacoma/university-puget-sound-removes-name-professor/281-5e798fcc-c936-4417-85d3-d6bd01414c2a