Whitman Stories
September 5, 2019
Gender, Power, Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth Come Together for 'Cultivating the Queen'
On Saturday, Sept. 7, the Walla Walla community gets a chance to see the theatrical results of a Whitman College faculty-student summer research project.
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September 3, 2019
Experience as Tour Guide Launched Economics Major into Technology Career
Applying to colleges wasn’t Brian Choe’s ’14 last experience with college admission processes. Today, it’s his full-time career. Choe is a program manager for Technolutions, a company that helps colleges manage student recruitment and enrollment.
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September 3, 2019
Meet Our Whitties: Alexa Lim '22
Meet Our Whitties is an occasional feature produced by the Office of Communications. It features a Q&A with students from across Whitman College.
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August 29, 2019
Whitman College Welcomes Most Diverse Incoming Class for 2019-2020 Year
Whitman College welcomes its most diverse incoming class for 2019-2020 year.
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August 27, 2019
Internship with WCTS Built Foundation for Career in Sports Content
It’s nothing new that the skills learned by students while at Whitman will be beneficial later in life, but it is the variety of activities, classes, jobs and experiences from which these skills are acquired that may come as a surprise.
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August 26, 2019
Student Researchers Help Advance Economics Projects
Along with more than two dozen research projects from departments across campus, this summer economics Assistant Professor Rosie Mueller worked with two Whitman College students on research projects supported by the Faculty-Student Summer Research Awards program.
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August 22, 2019
Jerry Hillis '61 Happy to Support College that Supported Him
Jerry Hillis '61 knows the difference that scholarships can make for students. One made a difference for him. "I came from a very poor family," said Hillis. "I thought the only way I could go to college was on an athletics scholarship."
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August 21, 2019
Summer Internship at Voz Shows Senior Different Paths to Activism
As a first-year at Whitman, Mayrangela Cervantes '20 knew she wanted to be a lawyer. Her ambition for legal defense led her to join Whitman's Borders as Methods (BAM) Club, a group that advocates for immigration reform and immigrant rights.
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August 19, 2019
Summer Research Project Examines Feminism and Email Plug-In
Buyaki Nyatichi '20 and Associate Professor Janet Davis, chair of computer science, spent summer 2019 looking at the Gmail plug-in "Just Not Sorry." By studying the extension that aims to help women express confidence and feminist and linguistic literature, their studying how the tool relates to contemporary feminist values.
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August 15, 2019
Whitman Featured in Princeton Review's Best 385 Colleges
The education services company recognized Whitman as being among "Best Western Colleges," "Colleges That Pay You Back" and "Green Colleges."
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August 15, 2019
Whitman Named to Kiplinger "Best Value" Colleges
Kiplinger editors identified top schools using factors such as SAT or ACT scores, admission and retention rates, student-faculty ratio and graduation rate, as well as cost and financial aid.
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August 15, 2019
Whitman Among Top 25 Schools in the West
Whitman joins colleges and universities such as Stanford, Caltech and Pomona in the publication's 2019 rankings.
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