Whitman Stories

When it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion, there’s always more work to be done, say 2022 Power & Privilege Symposium organizers.

Janning, a professor of sociology and author of Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age, explains how couples control the presentation of their love story to others, and how for celebrity couples, relationships and breakups “are happening in a marketplace where their image as people who abide by romantic values is a lot more scrutinized, and therefore probably a lot more controlled because their livelihoods depend on it.”

The Polish government has begun construction of a massive wall across its eastern border to block migrants traveling through neighboring Belarus. Human rights groups and conservationists warn it will damage fragile ecosystems, including Białowieża Forest, which Blavascunas wrote about in her book “Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles: The Future of Europe’s Last Primeval Forest.”

Torey Anderson ’12 and John Rumpeltes, who attended Whitman from 1974-76, are in Beijing as part of U.S. Ski & Snowboard’s physical therapy team.

When Las Vegas natives and twin sisters first visited Whitman College, they didn't think they'd commit to a Division III school. The now juniors thought their basketball career would bring them elsewhere. Whitman continues to reinforce why becoming Blues was the right choice.

In a Spokesman-Review opinion piece, Jim Russo, associate professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology (BBMB), says dissension over masks and vaccines distract from our common microbial enemy.

Whitman College student band Wind-Up Birds is something to crow about.

Chair of the Whitman College Board of Trustees Joe Davis and Chair of the Presidential Search Committee Danielle Garbe Reser ’97 welcome Sarah Bolton and express appreciation for Kathleen Murray ahead of the presidential transition this summer.

Bolton, a physicist and the current president of The College of Wooster in Ohio, will assume the role in July 2022.

Ron Lieber once again singled out Whitman for praise in his popular “Your Money” column, citing the school’s unique program for “counseling individual families that want an early read on what kind of merit aid their applications might get.”

Connecting at a Whitman College event paid off for Michelle Mathieu ’92 and Sam Geschickter ’20.

Congratulations to the faculty members who received promotions this year.