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Spring 2020

Whitman Magazine

Coming to the Table
Feature Story

Coming to the Table

A collaboration between Whitman College and the Washington State Penitentiary brings students from both institutions together to discuss relevant ethical issues in philosophy course.

Coming to the Table

Feature Stories

Enjoy highlights from this issue of Whitman Magazine.

President Kathy Murray

Community Efforts in Face of Crisis are a Source of Pride for Whitman

President Kathleen M. Murray writes about how COVID-19 has reshaped Whitman College, and how students, faculty and staff rose to support our community.

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Jacqueline Woodfork in their office

A Holistic Approach to History

As an advisor and historian, Associate Professor Jacqueline Woodfork works
to build relationships and see connections with her students and subject.

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Andy Burnstein ’20

Learning to Pop the Bubble

Graduating senior Andy Burnstein ’20 has advice for Whitman College students coming behind him: Get involved in the community. Register to vote in Walla Walla. Give back through local organizations. Be part of the city and culture. “Many Whitman students feel separate from the community, which is really unfortunate,” Burnstein said.

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Studying the Impact of Politics on Children

Associate Professor Erin Pahlke joins psychology researchers to ask how much children really understand about politics — and how we can help make the rhetoric less frightening

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Whitman College students speaking with a prison inmate

Coming to the Table

A collaboration between Whitman College and the Washington State Penitentiary brings students from both institutions together to discuss relevant ethical issues in philosophy course.

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Sam Perkins ’17 outdoors in winter

A Burning Passion for Disaster Management

Sam Perkins ’17 is an Idaho-based smokejumper for the U.S. Forest Service. But he also has a more global perspective to fire management. After graduating from Whitman College with his degree in sociology-environmental studies, Perkins received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and spent a year traveling the globe exploring how other cultures approach the environmental uncertainty of natural disaster.

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Caption: Whitney Rich ’20 served as a student consultant in Associate Professor Nico Parmley’s medical translation course this spring. (Photo by Aaron Grubb)

Cross country star, Spanish major Whitney Rich ’20 off and running into career

Cross country star Whitney Rich ’20 finds room to explore a career in medical translation and passions for the environment and running at Whitman

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Heather Wright ’99 stands in front of Ubinos, a volcano in Peru, during a period of explosive eruptions in 2015.

Heather Wright ’99 Loves the Collaboration and Challenge of Life as a Volcanologist

Heather Wright ’99 is a research geologist with the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program, a partnership between the U.S. Geological Survey and USAID’s Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance. Based in Vancouver, Washington, the program works to prevent volcano-related tragedies by collaborating with scientists and public officials around the world.

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Marcus Amerman works on beading on his couch at his home.

Marcus Amerman

Native American beadwork artists Marcus Amerman ’81 pushes the envelope on traditional beadwork by creating realistic pieces based on historic photographs. A member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Amerman earned a degree in art from Whitman College and often infuses his work with sociopolitical messages.

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On Boyer Avenue

What’s happening on campus—community and college news.

Angela Davis

Angela Davis Lecture

The Whitman College and Walla Walla communities welcomed Angela Davis to Cordiner Hall with a standing ovation Wednesday evening, Feb. 19, 2020. As the keynote speaker for the 2020 Power & Privilege Symposium, Davis spoke broadly about systems of inequity and injustice, both in the U.S. and abroad, while also sharing her own story and her work in the prison abolitionist movement.

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Campus Connect Winners

Three Whitman College students are being honored this spring for their outstanding contributions to the college and the greater Walla Walla community through the Campus Compact Presidents’ Civic Leadership Awards and Newman Civic Fellowship programs.

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Mellon Grant

Whitman College received a new $900,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Northwest Five Consortium’s initiative entitled “Revitalizing the Humanities in the Pacific Northwest through Community Engagement.”

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Coronavirus Cuts Short Spring Athletic Seasons

Cancellation of the spring athletic seasons due to COVID-19 was a heartbreaking turn of events for the college’s scholar-athletes.

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Lydia McDermott teaches a course in 2015.

First-Year Writing Program Wins Award

Whitman College is celebrating the success of its first-year writing assessment program, which has received the 2019 Beacon Award for Excellence in Student Achievement and Success from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.

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