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Online COVID Course Introduces Incoming Students to Whitman AcademicsJuly 9, 2020 When prospective students visit Whitman College, they often get the chance to meet with faculty, sit-in on classes, and get an up-close view of the academic excellence for which the college is known. But this spring, the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered in-person classes, and forced the Admission Office to suspend its Spring Visitors Day and Admitted Students Day on-campus events.
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Infectious Disease Class Takes on New Relevance in COVID-19 WorldJuly 6, 2020 Born in a new millennium, the students in Associate Professor Jim Russo’s infectious disease course have never known a time that HIV/AIDS wasn’t treatable. But Russo was a graduate student in the 1980s as the virus was first discovered
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Grant Funds Creation of Course to Take On ‘Grand Challenges’ Through Civic EngagementJuly 1, 2020 Kaitlyn Patia brings her passion for community engaged learning to Whitman College, thanks to the Mellon Periclean Faculty Leadership Program in the Humanities, a grant program run by nonprofit higher education consortium Project Pericles. It’s the first time a Whitman faculty member has received the $4,000 grant, which supports the development of a course dedicated to tackling the “grand challenges” of climate change, education access, immigration, mass incarceration, race and inequality or voter engagement.
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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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Library Archives Collect Stories from the COVID-19 EraJune 24, 2020 As COVID-19 reshapes life around the globe, the Whitman College and Northwest Archives at Penrose Library wants to document how those changes have affected our greater community.
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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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Seeing Double: Music Student Creates Self-Duet for Final PerformanceJune 17, 2020 Liam Dubay gained several new skills this spring. He learned to play the five-string Baroque cello, an instrument which Whitman College purchased last year. He also figured out how to splice together video so he could create a unique self-duet performance for his final project of the semester.
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Assistant Professor Xiaobo Yuan Bridges Anthropology and Religion at WhitmanJune 16, 2020 Xiaobo Yuan first worked as an anthropologist as an undergraduate student while studying at Johns Hopkins University. Yuan received a research grant to do field work in coastal Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. She was investigating how faith-based organizations, specifically Christian organizations, intervened in the aftermath of the hurricane.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlke Weighs in on Caregiver Conversations About Race
June 16, 2020 For Black caregivers who work with white families, the topic of race and racism may come up with children and sometimes their parents. One of the biggest hurdles when talking to white parents about race, especially for a Black nanny or babysitter, is addressing the myth that race isn’t something they need to acknowledge with their children. “A lot of white parents are steeped in colorblind ideology, and they really think their kid doesn’t notice race,” Pahlke explains.
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Faculty Turn to Student Consultants to Improve ClassesJune 15, 2020 This spring, Suzanne Morrissey was one of a handful of faculty participating in the faculty-student consultant program, organized and offered through Whitman College’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Now entering its second year, the program connects faculty members with a student who will spend the semester evaluating a chosen course and giving direct feedback.
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Whitties Talk About Life on the Front Lines of COVID-19June 12, 2020 When nurse practitioner Carolyn Korfiatis ’05 gets to work at her small rural hospital in Mammoth Lake, California, she goes through “the car wash.”
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Undergraduate Conference Showcases Student Research OnlineJune 12, 2020 Typically the Undergraduate Conference is a day of in-person presentations and poster sessions, where classes are canceled and the Whitman community interacts with student research. But when the college moved to online learning this spring in response to COVID-19, Keith Raether knew the conference format needed to change, too.
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Faculty Kathryn Frank Brings Passion for Inclusivity and Representation to Study of ComicsJune 11, 2020 Comics aren’t just something Kathryn Frank enjoys reading in her free time. The newest faculty member in Whitman College’s Department of Film and Media Studies is a comics and new media forms specialist.
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Neuroscientist Nancy Day '05 Brings Research on Language Development in Birds to Psychology DepartmentJune 11, 2020 Inside Maxey Hall’s newly constructed Avian Communication Lab, Assistant Professor Nancy Day ’05 is fitting songbirds with tiny headphones.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Pavel Blagov Finds Personality Traits Predict Social Distancing Behavior
June 7, 2020 In a new peer-reviewed study, Blagov found that psychopathic traits were linked to non-compliance with social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlke Offers Tips for Teaching Anti-Racism at Every Age
June 5, 2020 Drawing on her research on the subject, Pahlke cautions white parents that even very young children often display racial bias, and provides a framework for teaching anti-racist at every developmental stage, from toddlers to teens.
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Art Seniors Draw Inspiration from COVID-19 for Thesis ProjectsJune 1, 2020 Whitman College art major Peter Leyden didn't have a studio to return to after spring break so he found a new space, and optimistic outlook to these unexpected changes, while he worked to complete his senior thesis.
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Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlke on How White Parents Can Raise Anti-Racist Kids
June 1, 2020 Pahlke points out the dangers of colorblind socialization and argues that white parents who want to raise anti-racist kids should not remain silent on the subject of race.
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Whitman College Faculty Create COVID-19 Lecture Series
June 1, 2020 Admitted students had the opportunity to take a one-credit course called "A Liberal Arts Approach to the Study of a Global Pandemic," a collaboration between 21 Whitman professors. Many of the talks are now available to the public.
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Assistant Professor of Sociology Alvaro Santana-Acuña Reflects on One Hundred Years of Solitude Anniversary
May 30, 2020 Santana-Acuña discusses the continuing resonance of Gabriel García Márquez's classic to readers around the world with Emilio San Pedro of the BBC World Service.
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