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First Year Seminar Program Opens New PossibilitiesJuly 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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Associate Professor of Politics Jack Jackson Discusses Constitutional Principles, Protests
July 27, 2020 Jackson is the author of “Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right."
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Into the Woods: Senior Clara Hoffman Studies the Impact of Predators in the Pacific NorthwestJuly 21, 2020 On a late spring day, Clara Hoffman is creeping through the woods, as quietly as possible. She and her fellow researchers are using radio signals to triangulate the location of a cow elk in the area. Somewhere near her, a calf is hidden in the woods. Their mission is simple: Find the calf, blindfold it to keep it calm, fit it with its own radio collar, take measurements, and then clear out.
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Seattle Mariners CEO John Stanton '77 on Bringing Major League Baseball Back Safely
July 20, 2020 As teams are set to kick off a shortened, 60-game season, the Mariners are following strict guidelines for testing, tracing, cleaning and more. Even though fans won’t be in T-Mobile Park, the safety of players, coaches and ballpark personnel is paramount.
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Campaign Manager Katharine Gillen '20 Finds Creative Solutions During COVID-19
July 19, 2020 The politics graduate is serving as campaign manager for April Berg, a Democrat and Everett, Washington, school board member vying for a 44th District open seat in the House. After attempting to work remotely together on the campaign, they recently combined households.
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Emily Brucia ’11 Launches Telehealth Service When Americans Need it MostJuly 17, 2020 In April 2020, Emily Brucia '11 launched Elemental Telehealth — a health tech company focused on connecting people with psychologists in private practice who provide holistic, evidence-based care. The business was always designed to exist in the telehealth space, but launching it during a global pandemic was never her intention.
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Christian Moreno ’21 Pursues Dream Puerto Rican Internship from Walla WallaJuly 16, 2020 This summer, Christian Moreno '21 is an intern for Haser Inc, a nonprofit group that works to strengthen other nonprofits in Puerto Rico by offering administrative support, strategic planning and proposal development and fiscal sponsorship. Moreno is helping create business plans for organizations that focus on sustainable education, agroecology and community well-being.
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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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Associate Professor of Psychology Erin Pahlke on Role of Diverse Literature in Raising Anti-Racist Kids
July 6, 2020 “Having a diverse media landscape in your house gives kids examples of lots of different, positive people who are from different racial and ethnic groups,” Pahlke says. “It also gives families an opening to have important conversations.”
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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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