Nicole Simek, assistant professor of foreign languages and literatures (French) and general studies, has been selected to receive a Graves Award in the Humanities in recognition and support of her research project titled “A Comparative Study of Humor in French Caribbean Literature.” More...
Success, many Whitman College alumni will tell you, can be measured in a number of ways, from professional and personal accomplishments to public and private volunteer service... More...
The Glover Alston Center, named for key donors Kari Glover ’72 and her husband, Thaddas Alston, opened Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, at 26 Boyer Ave. at the west end of the Whitman College campus. More...
“Conversations on Climate Change” is the title of a new Whitman College lecture series, announced today by Phil Brick, professor of politics. It is sponsored by the college’s politics department, Global Studies Initiative and environmental studies program. More...
A month after he accepted the U.S. Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence on behalf of the company he chairs, wireless provider Trilogy International Partners, John Stanton ’77 and the company faced the unimaginable – massive devastation following the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti. More...
Robert Sickels, associate professor of rhetoric and film studies, has produced a film titled Walla Walla Wiffle – Where Men are Boys, a documentary about the annual Walla Walla Wiffle Tournament. Already the film has been broadcast on Seattle and Walla Walla PBS stations. It will air again locally on KCTS Jan. 24 at 4:45 p.m. and Jan. 29 at 11:50 p.m. More...
Whitman’s Pandemic Web site provides information and resources specific to the campus and in general. More...
There will be world leaders, top scientists and others at next week’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, and among them, two Whitman College students, who will be there in an official capacity. Emily Rodriguez ’10 and Lisa Curtis ’10 were chosen by national organizations to represent those organizations, as well as the college, at the conference. More...
Whitman College has named Robert “Bob” W. Young ’55 as a co-chair of its prestigious Stephen B.L. Penrose Society, established in 2008 to recognize donors who have given to the college cumulative gifts of $1 million or more over their lifetimes. More...
Jerome Schwartz '03 wanted a writing career in Hollywood so much that in 2007 he moved to Los Angeles, Calif., where he knew almost nobody, then made hundreds of phone calls, wrote thousands of pages of scripts between tasks as a writer’s assistant, and worked countless hours. Now the reward: He recently got his big break. One of TV’s hottest shows, CBS’ police drama, “Cold Case,” is using his script for a show that airs Dec. 6. More...
Whitman College’s Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) fraternity members cooked a staggering 250 pounds of turkey last week in preparation for a long-standing tradition: the TKE Thanksgiving Dinner. On Nov. 18, just as students were preparing to leave for their own Thanksgiving holiday, fraternity members served up a free and festive traditional Thanksgiving meal to about 150 people from the Walla Walla community. More...
Robert Sickels, associate professor of rhetoric and film studies at Whitman College, will have a temporary change of quarters from January to May 2010 as he takes on the role of Fulbright Scholar and lives and breathes the world of Hong Kong cinema while joining one of Asia’s largest film studies programs. More...
In a recent workshop with Whitman College students, former ambassador to Iraq and Whitman alumnus Ryan Crocker ’71 spoke on a subject often at the forefront of his 38 years in the United States Foreign Service: “Public service vs. personal conviction: what to do when they collide?” More...
Bunches of cold red beets lie beside fresh carrots and kale in the fridge, while colorful bins of apples take a position of rosy prominence on the front table. One shelf is laden with the delicious weight of pumpkins and squashes; another offers a rich row of fresh honey. Elsewhere are all manner of groceries: pasta and rice, milk and meat, yogurt and granola, canned food, couscous and corn chips, coffee and chocolate, spices and soups. More...
Bob Withycombe, a 29-year veteran Whitman College teacher and former debate coach, is the 2009 Washington Professor of the Year, award organizers announced today. More...
Spanish professors Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson and Janis Breckenridge recently traveled to Quito, Ecuador, for the XIX annual meeting of the Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica (AILCFH, a professional organization dedicated to the study of literary and cultural production by Hispanic women) to present original research on contemporary women’s film and literature. Solórzano-Thompson talked about Chicana subjectivity in two US/Mexico border films and Breckenridge presented a paper on Spanish lesbian writers. The conference was held at the FLACSO-Ecuador campus and attended by literary and cultural production scholars from the Americas and Europe. More...
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