Whitman College commencement ceremonies Sunday, May 24, will honor about 350 graduating seniors and feature a commencement address, “The Long War,” by former Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, a 1971 Whitman graduate. Ceremonies, which begin at 11 a.m. on Memorial lawn, next to Boyer Avenue, will include the traditional pomp and circumstance, colorful academic regalia, announcement of secondary school teaching awards, and a senior speaker elected by classmates to represent them at the podium. The event will last approximately two hours. More...
Some Americans refuse to drink water straight from their taps, while others across the globe can’t be particular; they lack access to safe water altogether. Sophomore Kelsie Butts, through her Walla Water Project, is asking the community to consider the value of water. More...
The increasing scope of the celebration and number of activities scheduled for Earth Week are the primary changes from last year’s event. “Earth Day is a long standing tradition at Whitman,” Rokpelnis said. “But there is a particular focus this year on cooperation between the campus environmental groups and other organizations.” As part of this effort to expand local outreach, the Center for Community Service is combining with students from Walla Walla University (WWU) and Walla Walla Community College (WWCC) to host a service day on Sunday, Apr. 19, followed by the all campus celebration in the afternoon. More...
If clean, safe, drinkable water didn’t flow from your water faucet, how much would you pay for a glass? What if there was no safe water at any price? Whitman sophomore Kelsie Butts would like the Walla Walla and Whitman communities to consider these questions and work together to make a difference for the 884 million people in the world who do not have access to clean, safe water. To that end, she has created the Water Walla Project. More...
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Baker Ferguson Chair of Politics and Leadership, will assume the office of provost and dean of the faculty of Whitman College, effective July 1, 2009. Kaufman-Osborn, who is currently chair of the faculty, will fill the position vacated by Lori Bettison-Varga, who has accepted the presidency of Scripps College in California. More...
Ginger Withers and Chris Wallace, Dr. Robert F. Welty Associate Professors of Biology, have received a $225,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Division of Child Health and Development to continue their cutting edge research on dendrite growth in brain cells. More...
Karlis Rokpelnis ’09 says it was wanderlust that compelled him to leave his family’s farm in Latvia to study acting in Denmark, volunteer in the Arctic and learn six languages before arriving at Whitman as an international student. He has since taken on a leadership role in environmental projects on campus and off, helping to establish bus service between Walla Walla and the Tri-Cities, about 50 miles away, and is the college’s first sustainability coordinator. More...
“The story of Medea is one of the most wrenching of the Greek myths,” says director Christopher Petit. “Medea, confronted by her husband, Jason’s, betrayal, brings the brunt of her wrath down on the lives of her children.” The current production, which imagines the story through the eyes of the couples’ children, runs from Wednesday, April 8, through Sunday, April 12, on the Freimann Stage. More...
A Whitman college professor’s and his student’s recent discovery could result in cutting out the months of testing it now takes environmental scientists to predict pollution releases at dredging operations to almost nothing – to less than one hour, More...
Five Whitman students have won awards for excellence in journalism in the college’s annual Hosokawa Journalism Contest, part of an endowed program designed to support and honor the work of the staff of The Pioneer, Whitman’s student newspaper. More...
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