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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 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 in
August 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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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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Mars Guy Rob Manning Predicts The Future
Rob Manning ’80, engineering manager for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, delivered Whitman’s 129th Commencement address. Acclaimed for his work on the Curiosity Rover currently exploring the Red Planet, Manning told graduates to boldly go.
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Whitman named as top 25 healthy college
August 25, 2015 Schools ranked on healthy food, fitness facilities, and medical and mental health services
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Whitman alumnus talks to NPR about new book, "Machines of Loving Grace"
August 20, 2015 John Markoff '71 weighs in on robots, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars.
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