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Film and Media Studies Professor Robert Sickels' Guide to 2020 Oscars
February 3, 2020 Alma Meisnest Chair of Humanities and Professor of Film and Media Studies Robert Sickels spoke to a reporter about this year's Academy Award nominees and concerns over the lack of diversity.
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Sociology Professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña Curates Gabriel García Márquez Exhibit
January 31, 2020 "The Making of a Global Writer" opens February 1 at the University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center. Comprising approximately 300 items, including numerous never-before-seen documents, it charts the Nobel Prize-winning author's path toward becoming a literary star.
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Politics Professor Jack Jackson Discusses Impeachment Case
January 21, 2020 Assistant Professor of Politics Jack Jackson describes the impeachment case against President Trump as "new territory" for the U.S. but adds that the proceedings "may reveal more consensus in the country about the president’s behavior than people imagine ... The partisan spectacle in Congress may, in fact, be obscuring this reality.”
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Basketball Player Jaron Kirkley '20 Perseveres as Student-Athlete
January 21, 2020 At six, Kirkley suffered a seizure that left him unable to read, write and speak for years. Doctors warned he would never be a regular student, but Kirkley, now a geology-environmental studies major at Whitman in addition to a standout on the basketball court, has overcome obstacles with the support of his professors and coaches.
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Psychology Professor Erin Pahlke Discusses Children's Reactions to Elections
January 14, 2020 Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlk, who co-authored a study last year about kids' reactions to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, said that right now children need some help "thinking through the different politicians’ perspectives and the different policies."
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Ross Eustis '11 Launches Bay Area Label Slow & Steady Records
December 3, 2019 A Chemistry major at Whitman and recipient of the Watson Fellowship, Eustis, who plays the trumpet, studied transnational dialects of jazz in Sweden, India, South Africa, Brazil and Japan after college. He now works as the digital projects manager for SFJazz Center.
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Professor Michelle Janning and Caitlyn Collins '08 Provide Sociological Perspective on Single Parenthood
November 25, 2019 Professor of Sociology Michelle Janning and Caitlyn Collins '08, an assistant professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, were interviewed about the double standards implicit in societal perceptions of single mothers as compared to single fathers.
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Professor Rachel George Discusses Rise of Exclamation Point
November 20, 2019 George, an assistant professor of anthropology who studies linguistics and digital media, also notes that the rise of the exclamation point may be tied to the fact that research indicates young women and young people of color are linguistic innovators.
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Professor Janet Davis on How to Welcome Women to Computer Science
November 18, 2019 Associate Professor and Microsoft Chair of Computer Science Janet Davis, founding chair of Whitman's computer science department, offers five ways to help women feel more at home in computer science classes.
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Remembering Walla Walla Foundry Owner Mark Anderson '78
November 17, 2019 A celebration of life will be Saturday, Nov. 23, with a 4 p.m. service at Cordiner Hall and a reception to follow in the Reid Center Young Ballroom.
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President Kathleen Murray Shares Community Engagement Success
November 13, 2019 Whitman's president spoke to host Dan Thesman on the Grapeline Podcast about the ways Whitman students get off campus and interact with local businesses and non-profits in the community.
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History Professor Elyse Semerdjian Discusses Turkish Incursion into Syria
October 23, 2019 Semerdjian, who teaches Islamic world and Middle Eastern history at Whitman, shed light on Turkey's actions against Kurdish fighters in the region following the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. forces from Northern Syria, as well as how Russia is now seizing the opportunity to fill the power vacuum.
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Director of Financial Aid Services Marilyn Ponti on FAFSA Tips for Families
October 20, 2019 Ponti recommends that families facing issues such as divorce that might impact their child's college funding reach out to the financial aid office to discuss the situation. Financial aid officers have some discretion when it comes to considering the use of only one parent’s income on the FAFSA and can use professional judgment in some of these special circumstances.
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Cameron Conner '20 Helps Launch Neighborhood Engagement Program
October 13, 2019 Conner says, "I agreed to take on this project because I believe the relationships we share around us make or break our well being."
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Whitman Herpetologist Kate Jackson Debunks Snake-Filled Border Moat Idea
October 3, 2019 After an article appeared earlier this week in The New York Times suggesting the president demanded a snake-filled moat to protect the southern border, Jackson, an associate professor of biology, explained that people who think they fear snakes "are actually afraid of the unknown."
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Robert Allen Skotheim Chair of History David Schmitz on Origins of "I Am an American Day"
October 1, 2019 Not everyone knows that Constitution Day shares the bill with Citizenship Day, an observance dating back to 1938. Whitman Professor David Schmitz, who specializes in 20th century American history and foreign policy, explains that a Polish refugee organized the first "I Am An American Day" celebration in New York, featuring patriotic speeches, songs, prayers and a parade from Walt Whitman's birthplace on Long Island.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Pavel Blagov Explores Link Between Personality and Music Taste
October 1, 2019 His research team surveyed 379 Americans ages 18-65 on their musical preferences, movie interests, personality traits, and psychopathic tendencies.
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Biology Major Eli Fournier '20 Studies Sockeye Salmon Life Cycle in Alaska
September 27, 2019 He conducted field work with Daniel Schindler, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Washington researching how the millions of fish that hatch in the freshwater lakes and streams along Alaska's Bristol Bay head out to sea and then return to their birthplace to spawn and die. A section of their anatomy called the otolith, a bit of calcium carbonate that sits within the salmon's inner ear and acts like an internal GPS, provides clues about their movements.
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Whitman Among Top 25 Schools in the West
August 15, 2019 Whitman joins colleges and universities such as Stanford, Caltech and Pomona in the publication's 2019 rankings.
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