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World champion wheelchair tennis player David Wagner takes to the courtSeptember 17, 2015 World champion wheelchair tennis player David Wagner returned to his hometown on September 16 to lead a youth tennis clinic, open to school-age children (and the occasional excited adult) interested in improving their backhand and learning from a world champion player.
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Professor Lisa Uddin on creating the modern zoo
September 16, 2015 An excerpt from Uddin's book, "Zoo Renewal. White Flight and the Animal Ghetto"
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Sociology professor Helen Kim featured in the "Huffington Post"
September 15, 2015 Kim talks about her research on Asian-Jewish families and how her family observes the High Holidays.
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First-generation students get a head start
September 14, 2015 This past July, the college flew 32 incoming first-generation/working-class students to campus for an orientation program to get students familiar with the campus, faculty and staff members and the resources available to them.
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Alumnus talks to The New Yorker about the hairstyles of the presidential candidates
September 14, 2015 Janet Stephens '80 is a self-proclaimed hairdressing archeologist
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Alumnus plans to take computing to the next level
September 9, 2015 Alex Nugent '03 launches new hi-tech firm that aims to overhaul computing
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Whitman ranks high in "Best College Rankings" by College Factual
September 8, 2015 Whitman is ranked #81 overall and is ranked top college in Washington
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Whitman alumna publishes study on working mothers
September 7, 2015 Caitlyn Collins '08 talks about balancing work and family on Good Day Austin.
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Whitman student highlighted for work during summer internship
September 4, 2015 Elizabeth Greenfield '18 spent her summer working for an environmental nonprofit thanks to a internship grant from Whitman.
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The class of 2019 moves inAugust 28, 2015 Move-in day for incoming first-year students took place on August 27, with new Whitties, their parents, and staff and faculty members crisscrossing campus
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Well-known artist's work coming to Whitman's campus
August 26, 2015 Ai Weiwei's sculpture "Refraction" finds home at Whitman thanks to alumni
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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 DownwindersAssociate 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 FlightHow is a novel born? Through the act of intentionally dreaming, explains English professor and novelist Scott Elliott.
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