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Basketball coach Michelle Ferenz hits milestone 250th win

January 13, 2017 Michelle Ferenz, the winningest basketball coach in Whitman College history, burnished her legacy on Friday when the women’s team bested Pacific Lutheran University in her 250th victory in 16 years. Whitman now stands 14-0 for the season.

Mariners play ball with Whitman

January 13, 2017 Whitman College's baseball team peppered representatives from the Seattle Mariners Caravan on Thursday when the big leaguers came to town for an afternoon of tips for the amateurs and autographs for the public.

Study abroad scholarships for four Whitman students

January 5, 2017 Four Whitman students who have received Gilman Scholarships will spend the next semester studying abroad in Chile, Scotland, an Turks and Caicos.

Riley Foreman ’14 featured for her job as a researcher at ESPN

January 5, 2017

The Whitman Neighborhood

As a resident adviser in the Interest House Community, Devon Yee ’18 welcomes students to MECCA, the Multi-Ethnic Center for Cultural Awareness.

WISE Up!

Whitman faculty, staff and students take time out to show local middle- and high-schoolers what college life is all about.

Finding New Life

Mitchell Cutter ’17 makes for the University of Montana, investigating some of the oldest lifeforms on Earth at Yellowstone National Park.

People, Nature, Technology

How have humans shaped their environment, and how has the environment shaped us? Tackling these issues with Associate Professor of History Nina Lerman.

The Untold Stories of Walla Walla's Frenchtown

Students working with French professor Sarah Hurlburt research the stories of the women of Frenchtown, a 19th century settlement on the Walla Walla River.

Object Lesson: Source Code

The Gutenberg Bible, also known as the “42-line Bible,” was completed in 1454-1455. Of the 180 copies that were produced, 47 more or less complete editions are still in existence, each consisting of 643 leaves - one of which can be found in the Whitman College and Northwest Archives.

Focus on Faculty: The Body Rhetoric

All rhetoric is bodily. All bodies are rhetorical. So says Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Center for Writing and Speaking Lydia McDermott in her new book.

The Lives of Others

Leslie Jamison, author of 2016 Summer Read The Empathy Exams, on how she relates to her unlikely subjects, and the give and take between writer and reader.

Spring Athletics Highlights

Whitman’s spring semester brought several outstanding conference performances from its athletics teams.

Second Summer Fly-In Program

In June and July, Whitman flew two cohorts of incoming first-generation students from across the country to Walla Walla for a special pre-semester orientation program.

Humanities, thinking digitally

Faculty and staff members took another step toward a more digital classroom experience this June, attending the annual Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria.

2016 Graduates Net Prominent National Scholarships

Members of Whitman’s outgoing class have been awarded a diverse array of competitive post-baccalaureate fellowships and grants as they embark on the next chapter in their educational careers.

Alumnus receives NSF Fellowship for Myanmar research

When Matt Schissler ’07 set off for Southeast Asia as a young college graduate, he did not expect to stay longer than a couple of months.

In Good Faith

As dean of Portland’s oldest Episcopal congregation, Nathan LeRud ’04 ministers to a diverse population of parishioners with the mission of making everyone feel welcome.

The African Century

The founder of nonprofits Akili Dada and African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD), Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg ’01 is tending a global garden and watching it grow.

Mind the Gap

Where urban planning meets questions of equity and inclusion: there, Oregon Department of Transportation’s Talia Jacobson ’04 has found her calling.