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American Dreamers
Thanks to Teach For America’s DREAMer Program, Alejandro Fuentes Mena ’13 has just completed his first two-year stint as an elementary school teacher in Denver.
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Carbon Tax
Camila Thorndike ’10, the executive director of Oregon Climate, was named to Mic50’s list that recognizes the “next generation of impactful leaders.”
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The Country Between Us“We love our country - it is composed of the bones of our people and we will not part with it.” Cayuse Delegation Treaty of 1855.
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The DownwindersAssociate Professor of Anthropology Jason Pribilsky asks hard questions about the Hanford site's legacy and our culture’s relationship with cancer.
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Doctor Shadowing
A Whitman alumna organized a program to help potential medical students shadow doctors to find out if they can handle the “dark side of medicine.”
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Writing a Novel: Prelude to FlightHow is a novel born? Through the act of intentionally dreaming, explains English professor and novelist Scott Elliott.
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The Zoo Keeper
Professor Lisa Uddin, author of Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto, tells Whitman Magazine that zoos are public spaces from which we can examine racial planes.
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Mr. Whitman
Eight men will vie for the title of Mr. Whitman 2015 this fall in the 14th annual fundraising contest organized by the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
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Subterranean Austin
Invisible in Austin is a scholarly “examination of the lived experiences of social suffering in Austin—a thriving, rapidly-growing, highly unequal and segregated technopolis.”
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Brother, I'm Dying
Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat will be on campus on September 10 to talk about her book Brother, I’m Dying.
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The Glean Team
Created by Samuel Curtis ’16 from Corvallis, Oregon, the student-run group is responsible for nearly 35,000 of the 59,000 pounds of food produce gleaned in Walla Walla during 2014
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Mars Guy Rob Manning Predicts The Future
Rob Manning ’80, engineering manager for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, delivered Whitman’s 129th Commencement address. Acclaimed for his work on the Curiosity Rover currently exploring the Red Planet, Manning told graduates to boldly go.
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Under the Canopy
Landscape supervisor Bob Biles ’74 is tagging Whitman’s trees—about 1,600 of them
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The Transistor Effect
Walter H. Brattain’s Nobel Prize from 1956, which can be viewed at the Whitman College and Northwest Archives in Penrose Library.
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Around the World
The Office of Off-Campus Studies holds an annual photography contest so students can show off what they’re up to on the road.
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Game, Set, MatchSelf-described “indoorsman” Daniel F. Le Ray attends the Tennis and Wine Camp, Whitman’s popular summer camp for adults.
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Funny - You Don't Look JewishA Korean-American and a Jewish-American meet at a dinner party, get married and have children. A recipe for disaster? By Helen Kim
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I Return to Heal AnotherOne of the first specialized healthcare workers sent to fight Ebola in Liberia, Christopher Perdue ’93 spent two months in-country treating the sick. By Jenny Lewis
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