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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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Politics Professor Aaron Bobrow-Strain Wins Washington State Book Award
September 30, 2020 His 2019 book “The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez" has garnered several awards, which now include the Washington Center for the Book 2020 Washington State Book Award for biography/memoir.
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Whitman Students Strengthen Community Ties During Pandemic
September 27, 2020 From writing letters to pen pals at Washington Odd Fellows Home through the Adopt-A-Grandparent program to recording children’s books in Spanish through the Storytime Project, Whitties are continuing the tradition of community engagement despite distance learning.
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Whitman's Early Financial Aid Guarantees Add Transparency to College Search
September 25, 2020 Whitman College invites interested students to submit academic information and financial data before they apply, so they can see how much money in scholarships and financial aid they'll be awarded if admitted. This option is especially useful for students considering applying early decision.
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Professor of Sociology Michelle Janning Probes Perceptions of Adulthood During Pandemic
September 16, 2020 She notes that the shift toward college students studying at home due to COVID-19 challenges traditional definitions of adulthood. "The criteria might change. There might be less emphasis on geographic independence to be an adult."
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Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold '06 Discusses Mail-In Voting
September 14, 2020 She appeared on the Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell to talk about mail in voting in her state and refute claims that it leads to fraud.
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Whitman Ranked Among U.S News & World Report Best Colleges of 2021
September 14, 2020 U.S. News evaluated more than 1,400 colleges and universities on 17 indicators of academic quality. The data used for the rankings was gathered in spring and early summer 2020.
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Professor of Sociology Michelle Janning Offers Tips for College Students Studying at Home
September 9, 2020 Due to the pandemic, college students across the country are adjusting to living and studying at home again rather than on campus. Janning provides context and advice for families navigating this new normal.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlke on Explaining White Privilege to Kids
August 5, 2020 Pahlke provides examples of what to read and how to talk to children about white privilege at every developmental stage. "From early on, it is important to give children the tools to understand white privilege and motivate them to fight unjust systems."
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Professor of History Elyse Semerdjian Examines Ties Between Police Tactics Against BLM Protesters, Middle East Violence
July 31, 2020 Semerdjian argues that police tactics and technologies recently deployed in U.S. cities were developed in the Middle East to suppress dissent, and calls for both ending police violence at home and ending America’s wars abroad.
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Vice President for Enrollment and Communications Josh Jensen Reflects on Higher Ed Response to COVID-19
July 29, 2020 Jensen, who is also chair of the college's coronavirus task force, explained how Whitman and other schools around the country reached their decisions about remote learning after seeing virus cases continue to rise this summer. “How fortunate we feel that we had the ability to say to our students we’re going to go remote and we’re going to manage and weather the financial challenges that come with that and Whitman will be financially strong,” he said. “I don’t know that every college is able to say that quite as confidently.”
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Physician Tanny Davenport '98 on Preventing COVID-19: "Masking Works"
July 28, 2020 Davenport, an internal medicine doctor at Virginia Mason Memorial Hospital in Yakima, Washington, a national hotspot for coronavirus cases, tells Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep how encouraging everyone in the community to wear masks helped cut transmission of the virus in half.
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Associate Professor of Politics Jack Jackson Discusses Constitutional Principles, Protests
July 27, 2020 Jackson is the author of “Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right."
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Seattle Mariners CEO John Stanton '77 on Bringing Major League Baseball Back Safely
July 20, 2020 As teams are set to kick off a shortened, 60-game season, the Mariners are following strict guidelines for testing, tracing, cleaning and more. Even though fans won’t be in T-Mobile Park, the safety of players, coaches and ballpark personnel is paramount.
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Campaign Manager Katharine Gillen '20 Finds Creative Solutions During COVID-19
July 19, 2020 The politics graduate is serving as campaign manager for April Berg, a Democrat and Everett, Washington, school board member vying for a 44th District open seat in the House. After attempting to work remotely together on the campaign, they recently combined households.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlke on Role of Diverse Literature in Raising Anti-Racist Kids
July 6, 2020 “Having a diverse media landscape in your house gives kids examples of lots of different, positive people who are from different racial and ethnic groups,” Pahlke says. “It also gives families an opening to have important conversations.”
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Paul Garrett Professor of Political Science Shampa Biswas Reflects on Value of Liberal Arts During Pandemic
July 1, 2020 She describes the new lecture series Whitman faculty developed for incoming students about COVID-19 through various academic lenses.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology Alvaro Santana-Acuña on How Márquez Resonates With Readers Today
June 24, 2020 Gabriel García Márquez's literary classic One Hundred Years of Solitude refers to a plauge of insomnia that descends on the fictional town of Macondo. Santana-Acuña compares the struggles characters in the novel face with the global fight against COVID-19.
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