2017

In its annual “Best Colleges” rankings release, U.S. News and World Report awarded Whitman College an overall ranking of 41 among the nation’s liberal arts colleges.

Want to find your calling? Study abroad. So says contemporary Middle East historian Keith Watenpaugh, professor and founding director of the Human Rights Studies Program at the University of California, Davis.

Last year, 753 W Club members contributed $459,000 to support Whitman’s 15 varsity athletics teams and sports initiatives—one of the best fundraising years in the club's 10-year history. What will the numbers be for the upcoming 8th annual W Club Golf Tournament, which tees off at the Walla Walla Country Club on Sept. 22 and is among several events that mark the decade of success of the W Club?

Want a novel way to teach kids about science? Look to children’s literature, according to scholars Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz in their new book, Sharing Books, Talking Science: Exploring Scientific Concepts with Children's Literature.

Whitman receives highest ranking for northwest schools

Whitman students interested in bettering the Walla Walla community can look to recent graduates Dana Matsunami ’17 and Mitchell Cutter ’17 for inspiration. They both were Community Fellows last year, working at local organizations and gaining invaluable professional experience in the process.

For Jennine Capó Crucet, having her debut novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, selected as Whitman's 2017 Summer Read for first-year students proved more than just an opportunity to share her acclaimed work with 400 new readers.

Jennine Capó Crucet’s acclaimed debut novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, this year’s choice for the annual Summer Read Program at Whitman, struck a chord with students, staff and faculty for its timely handling of issues such as assimilation and micro-aggressions.

Opening Week activities offered the incoming class s a chance to get to know Whitman, their new classmates and the wide range of activities on offer both on campus and in the community.

A campus tradition for more than 20 years, the Interest House Community (IHC) block party took over Boyer Avenue last Saturday with games, activities, arts and crafts and free food.

Understanding complex questions of identity, race and inclusion, as well as the affect that implicit bias can have on our interactions with others, are just two of the goals of a race and equity workshop being held this Sunday for Whitman’s new first-year students.

When a total solar eclipse cast shadows across the contiguous United States on Aug. 21, Whitman College Associate Professor of Astronomy Nathaniel Paust ’98 took advantage of the rare sighting to conduct research on the appearance of the sun’s outer layers, the chromosphere and the corona.