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Former Ambassador Ryan Crocker '71 Calls for Guardrails in Withdrawal from Afghanistan
May 4, 2021 As the deadline for the U.S. departure from Afghanistan on September 11, 2021, approaches, Crocker and his co-author, Congressman Michael McCaul, urge mitigation strategies including intelligence agreements with neighboring countries, humanitarian and development assistance, more programs to protect Afghan women and girls, and expedited special visas for interpreters and other Afghans who supported the U.S.
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2021 Ben Rabinowitz Award Recipients Announced
April 29, 2021 For the first time in its 10-year history, the Rabinowitz Award was presented to three projects.
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Whitman Outdoor Program Offers Spring Break Day Fun
April 28, 2021 Pop-up campus activities, which aligned with the five spring break days scheduled throughout the semester, included walking a slack line, riding a zip line or navigating a Tyrolean traverse under the sun.
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Mom Really Knew Best: 2021 Graduate Reflects on His Whitman JourneyApril 27, 2021 The first time that Maamoon Saleh, from Kent, Washington, travelled to Walla Walla—or anywhere on the eastside of the state—was late at night following his senior high school district track meet. Now, as a soon-to-graduate senior, Saleh reflects on his Whitman journey.
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New Outdoors Club Creates Welcoming Space for Students of Color at Whitman
April 26, 2021 Whitman’s recently founded BIPOC Outdoors Club seeks to create a welcoming and accessible space on campus for students of color to experience outdoor recreation. The idea of founding an outdoor club for Whitman’s students of color population came up during a meeting between the four outreach coordinators for Whitman’s climbing gym last semester.
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Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies Tarik Elseewi Comments on Diversity in Academy Award Categories
April 19, 2021 "We as a society have to think long and deep about what diversity actually means," Elseewi says. "If it is simply a formal inclusion of different races or genders, then the problems of inequality we face now will never change."
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Whitman’s International Student Enrollment Strengthened by Financial SupportApril 16, 2021 Whitman’s promise of diversity in student nationalities has led to a rise in international student enrollment over the past decade, supported by the college’s policy to meet international students’ full financial need.
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Virtual Undergraduate Conference Sparks Engaging DiscourseApril 15, 2021 In its 23rd year, the Whitman Undergraduate Conference is an opportunity for students to present their original research from classes, senior theses, study abroad projects and summer internships. The 2021 conference showcased the work of 118 students and, adapting to the times, was held virtually. Presentations were pre-recorded and shown during the 16 panels, followed by a live question-and-answer session with attendees.
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Tiny House, Big EffortApril 14, 2021 Just a month into his senior year at Whitman, Brayden Preskenis received a phone call from his father. The region of Oregon where he grew up was on fire. Wanting to do something for his community, Preskenis decided he would build a tiny house on a trailer in Walla Walla and drive it to Ashland, Oregon, where it would become the home of a family who had lost theirs in the fire.
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Tommy Lloyd '98 Named Head Men's Basketball Coach at University of Arizona
April 14, 2021 After graduating from Whitman with a degree in biology, Lloyd was an assistant coach at Gonzaga for 20 seasons and a huge part of the that team’s success on the national stage.
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‘Getting Into Fishy Business’ Whitman Alum Tyler Dann ’00 manages salmon populations in AlaskaApril 12, 2021 Fishing has always been an important part of Tyler Dann's life. After graduating from Whitman in 2000 with a degree in environmental studies politics, Dann knew he wanted a career in natural resource management, but wasn't sure where to start. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington and a fisheries geneticist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Dann has found his passion and his career path.
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David Nord Award Funds Projects Supporting LGBTQ Community at WhitmanApril 10, 2021 For more than 20 years, the David Nord Award has been presented to Whitman students, faculty and staff to support scholarly projects on issues facing the LGBTQIA+ community. The Intercultural Center looks for on-campus projects that engage with important issues through a variety of creative mediums. Over the years, the award has supported everything from plays to research projects.
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Senator Patty Murray and Whitman Students Discuss Health EquityApril 2, 2021 In a special virtual event for the Whitman community, Washington State Senator Patty Murray took part in a panel discussion. The discourse centered on a report authored by Murray’s office titled “COVID-19 & Achieving Health Equity: Congressional Action Is Necessary To Address Racism And Inequality In The U.S. Health Care System.”
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‘Banking on Whitman’ Rosendo Guizar ’94 credits his high school librarian, Darcy Judd Wyant Ahlquist ’54, with his successApril 1, 2021 Baker Boyer Bank's Chief Credit Officer Rosendo Guizar ’94 credits his success to the encouragement and guidance he received from his high school librarian, Darcy Judd Wyant Ahlquist ’54.
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Labyrinth Adds Interfaith Outdoor Space to Whitman CampusMarch 26, 2021 Whitman College has a new interfaith outdoor space on campus. In early March, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life led the installation of a labyrinth behind Marcus House and the campus bike shop on Shady Rill Street.
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Tech Entrepreneur David Wallace '10 Launches Agriculture Startup
March 25, 2021 After earning a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University and taking a job as a senior data scientist at Amazon, Wallace returned to his roots on the family potato farm, applying his tech expertise to irrigation.
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Liam Voorhees ’21 Awarded Prestigious Watson FellowshipMarch 23, 2021 Winning the prestigious fellowship is a watershed moment in the senior’s study of rivers and their connection to food production.
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Cullen Hoback '03 Produces HBO Docuseries on Origins of QAnon
March 16, 2021 His six-part HBO docuseries, Q: Into the Storm, explores the intersections between the QAnon conspiracy theory QAnon, former president Donald Trump and the domestic terror attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. It streams on HBO Max this weekend.
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Kaitlynne Jensen ’23 Named Newman Civic FellowMarch 8, 2021 Politics major Kaitlynne Jensen ’23 of Milton-Freewater, Oregon, has received the prestigious Newman Civic Fellowship from Campus Compact.
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