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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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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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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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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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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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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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Environmental Historian Daniel Grant '10 Reflects on Lingering Symbolism of Border Wall
February 28, 2021 He writes, "Borders cannot be truly fixed. Our preoccupation with the need to 'control' the border neglects the fact that the landscape makes a mockery of such attempts. Instead, seeing the border as provisional and fluid might help us soften the binary distinctions between 'us' and 'them' that a wall tempts us to make."
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Whitman Students Celebrate Return to Walla Walla for Spring Semester
February 28, 2021 After two semesters of remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Whitman welcomed students back to campus late last month, with a raft of safety procedures in place to keep the community healthy.
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More Praise for Whitman’s Early Financial Aid Guarantees
February 17, 2021 New York Times columnist Ron Lieber references Whitman's financial aid policy in favorable terms in an interview with NPR about his new book, “The Price You Pay for College.”
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Virtual Story Times With Whitman Students Become YouTube Channel for Walla Walla Public Schools Students
February 12, 2021 The YouTube channel, Story Time With Whitman College, features Whitman students reading aloud a variety of children's books in English and Spanish. Story Time program leader, Claire Weissman '23, explains that the project aims to continue the essential practice of reading with the youngest members of the community, especially during the pandemic. The more than 40 story time videos promote diversity, accceptance and the celebration of culture through stories.
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Whitman College Early Financial Aid Guarantees Praised in New Book
February 10, 2021 New York Times columnist Ron Lieber discusses his new book, The Price You Pay for College, in an interview with the podcost Motley Fool Answers. He praises Whitman's policy of providing financial aid guarantees to prospective students before they even apply.
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Associate Professor of Politics Jack Jackson Signs Open Letter on First Amendment and Impeachment
February 5, 2021 Jackson joined other leading constitutional scholars and lawyers in arguing that former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is shielded by the First Amendment is “legally frivolous” and should not stop the Senate from convicting him.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlke Shares Insights on How Kids Interpret Sexism in Politics
January 25, 2021 With Kamala Harris being sworn in as the country's first female vice president, Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlke explains how kids see sexism and racism in politics, and how to teach them to understand discrimination.
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Whitman Ultra-Cold Freezer Loaned to Local Hospital for Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Storage
January 13, 2021 Before the first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines could begin arriving in Walla Walla to immunize local health care workers, some logistics had to be figured out. When Providence St. Mary Medical Center was unable to get a freezer delivered in time, Whitman professors Brit Moss and Jim Russo stepped up and took action.
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Whitman Mathematics Professor Hopes to Connect Others with Local Advocacy Program for Children
December 15, 2020 Walla Walla Child Advocates is a volunteer-based advocacy program for children in foster care. The program's mission is to provide culturally sensitive, best interest advocacy to children within the court system who have experienced abuse or neglect. Albert Schueller, a mathematics professor at Whitman College, has been a Walla Walla Child Advocate for seven years.
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Whitman Plans to Welcome Back Students Safely
December 8, 2020 Whitman College and Walla Walla University are both planning to bring students back to campus in January. Officials at Whitman College and Walla Walla University announced their plans earlier this fall. “We have learned a great deal more about the virus,” Whitman College President Kathleen Murray said. “We have also learned from institutions that did well this fall, as well as institutions that struggled.”
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Whitman Sociology Research Finds That Washingtonians Have Delayed Getting Health Care During the Pandemic
December 4, 2020 An online survey conducted out of Whitman College found more than half of Washingtonians say they have delayed medical visits this year. The findings underscore widespread concerns about disruptions to health care during the pandemic. Researchers from the college in Walla Walla asked more than 2,300 Washingtonians if they experienced delayed medical care due to COVID-19.
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Jack Jackson, Associate Professor of Politics Discusses the Supreme Court in Crisis in an Excerpt from his Book "Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right"
October 29, 2020 "Our moment of crisis, which should be both welcomed and deepened, calls for the rendering of judgment on the following question: will the majority of the country allow an anti-constitutional minority, empowered by an anti-democratic constitution, to rule in perpetuity?"
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Associate Professor of Psychology Tom Armstrong Talks All Things Disgust Just in Time for a Creepy, Crawly Halloween
October 29, 2020 “Disgust likely evolved to keep us away from sources of pathogens,” said Tom Armstrong, assistant professor of psychology at Whitman College in Washington State. “Creepy crawly insects could be repellent because they tend to live in dark, damp places where bacteria thrive. Some may be human parasites, whereas others could transmit disease. While worms or maggots in food may not be harmful in themselves, they could indicate that food has been compromised by pathogens.”
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Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlke: Kids Don't Understand Gender Imbalance in Politics
October 1, 2020 Pahlke writes that most children today know very little about the history of women’s rights in the U.S., including the suffrage movement or the fact that a woman has never served as president or vice president.
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