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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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New Theater and Dance Chair Laura Hope Sees Great Art Ahead
August 31, 2020 The seats inside Harper Joy Theatre may not be filled with audiences this fall. The stages may remain empty. But that doesn’t mean that the Department of Theater and Dance isn’t actively working to produce meaningful art. In fact, new department Chair Laura Hope, associate professor of theater, is excited to see the new types of performances and pieces created over fall semester.
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Get to Know Newly Promoted Whitman Faculty
August 28, 2020 Whitman College faculty members who received tenure or promotion to full professor for the 2020-2021 academic year answered questions about their areas of expertise, their passions and what they love about Whitman students.
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Learning Together: Grant Funds Summer Research Projects in Walla WallaAugust 27, 2020 Whitman College students are known for their passion for serving the Walla Walla community. But this summer, more than a dozen students were able to explore community engagement in a new, more holistic model thanks to a community-engaged learning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Sociologist Caity Collins ’08 Has a Message for Moms: It’s Not Your FaultAugust 14, 2020 Caity Collins ’08 has spent her career studying families, starting during her time at Whitman College. The sociology major began with a research project with Professor Michelle Janning, looking at the way that divorce was represented in children’s rooms.
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Whitman-Mayo Partnership Challenges and Fosters Budding ScientistsAugust 13, 2020 As research experiences and internships around the nation were canceled in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Assistant Professor Michael Coronado picked up the phone. He wanted to make sure that Whitman College’s first two fellows in the Whitman-Mayo Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program didn’t miss out on the chance to work with Mayo Clinic. So he reached out to DeLisa Fairweather ’87, his mentor and director of Translational Cardiovascular Research at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.
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New ASWC President Offers Support, Unity for 2020-2021 Academic YearAugust 12, 2020 As the United States endures unprecedented times — from a global pandemic to racial conflict and a volatile political climate — the Associated Students of Whitman College (ASWC) are planning to step up and support students in new ways.
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Seattle-Area Neighbors and Whitties Take on the Pandemic Together
August 11, 2020 Duncan “Tim” Hay ’57 and I-Chin Maeda ’98 are in a neighborly stand-off about who deserves recognition most. Hay insists that its Maeda who’s worthy of praise, for stepping up to help him and his wife Betsy (Jones) Hay ’60 with grocery shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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John Lewis Fellowship Gives Dorothy Mukasa ’19 Chance to ‘Stir Up Good Trouble’ in CommunityAugust 7, 2020 This spring, Dorothy Mukasa '19 received the John Lewis Fellowship (JLF) based in Atlanta, Georgia. Mukasa is one of 39 Whitman graduates to receive a prestigious fellowship or scholarship for the 2019-2020 award year.
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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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Psychology Senior Partners with Professor to Study Attention and MemoryJuly 31, 2020 Professor Matthew Prull has been fascinated by the mental processes associated with aging and memory for as long as he can remember. This summer, Prull teamed up with psychology senior Nikita Adhikari to test theories about the psychological phenomenon known as the attentional boost effect.
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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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Ibram Kendi’s “How to be an Antiracist” Selected for 2020 Common ReadJuly 30, 2020 Like much of the nation, Whitman College students, staff, faculty and alumni are joining together this summer to dig deeply into issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. As part of that conversation, in mid-July President Kathy Murray announced Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to be an Antiracist” as the summer 2020 common read.
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Beckman Scholars Keep STEM Community ConnectedJuly 29, 2020 The Whitman College campus may be largely closed, but dozens of students are still spending their summer engaged in meaningful research, though it may not look like they expected. Keeping that group connected and working to build a community among student researchers are the college’s three Beckman Scholars — new graduate Alexandra Moore ’20 and rising seniors Silas Miller and Hunter Hansen.
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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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First Year Seminar Program Opens New Possibilities
July 28, 2020 What is childhood? What is the process of othering? How do we differentiate between humans and animals? How do humans experience time? How do we conceive of community and solitude outside of the boundaries of the ordinary? This fall, new students will engage these questions and more while they sharpen their critical thinking, writing and reading comprehension skills in Whitman College’s new First Year Seminars program.
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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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