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Rest Stop Reminiscences
Interstates 82, 84 and 90 are oft-traversed highways for Whitman students from the West and Pacific Northwest. Here are some of their favorite stops on the way.
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What We Do After
Three alumni filmmakers take on the prison education system, urging us to welcome those who’ve been released back into the community.
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Rise of the Robots
Pulitzer Prize-winner John Markoff ’71 tells professor Janet Davis why he’s not worried about building the next Terminator.
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A Legacy of Leadership
Colleen Willoughby ’55 reflects on how life has changed for women leaders over the last 30 years.
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The Half-Life of Memory
Summer Read author Edwidge Danticat bridges the gap between Haiti and the U.S. in Brother, I’m Dying.
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True North
Whitman’s Director of Outdoor Programs, Brien Sheedy, has led an expedition to the North Pole
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Out in Africa
Nate Freeman ’04, who earned a B.A. in physics-astronomy from Whitman and a J.D. from Yale, cycled from Cairo to Cape Town in support of LGBT rights.
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American Dreamers
Thanks to Teach For America’s DREAMer Program, Alejandro Fuentes Mena ’13 has just completed his first two-year stint as an elementary school teacher in Denver.
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Carbon Tax
Camila Thorndike ’10, the executive director of Oregon Climate, was named to Mic50’s list that recognizes the “next generation of impactful leaders.”
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The Country Between Us
“We love our country - it is composed of the bones of our people and we will not part with it.” Cayuse Delegation Treaty of 1855.
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The Downwinders
Associate Professor of Anthropology Jason Pribilsky asks hard questions about the Hanford site's legacy and our culture’s relationship with cancer.
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Doctor Shadowing
A Whitman alumna organized a program to help potential medical students shadow doctors to find out if they can handle the “dark side of medicine.”
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Writing a Novel: Prelude to Flight
How is a novel born? Through the act of intentionally dreaming, explains English professor and novelist Scott Elliott.
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The Zoo Keeper
Professor Lisa Uddin, author of Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto, tells Whitman Magazine that zoos are public spaces from which we can examine racial planes.
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Mr. Whitman
Eight men will vie for the title of Mr. Whitman 2015 this fall in the 14th annual fundraising contest organized by the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
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Subterranean Austin
Invisible in Austin is a scholarly “examination of the lived experiences of social suffering in Austin—a thriving, rapidly-growing, highly unequal and segregated technopolis.”
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Brother, I'm Dying
Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat will be on campus on September 10 to talk about her book Brother, I’m Dying.
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The Glean Team
Created by Samuel Curtis ’16 from Corvallis, Oregon, the student-run group is responsible for nearly 35,000 of the 59,000 pounds of food produce gleaned in Walla Walla during 2014
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