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Tech Entrepreneur David Wallace '10 Launches Agriculture Startup
March 25, 2021 After earning a Ph.D. from John Hopkins University and taking a job as a senior data scientist at Amazon, Wallace returned to his roots on the family potato farm, applying his tech expertise to irrigation.
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Liam Voorhees ’21 Awarded Prestigious Watson FellowshipMarch 23, 2021 Winning the prestigious fellowship is a watershed moment in the senior’s study of rivers and their connection to food production.
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Cullen Hoback '03 Produces HBO Docuseries on Origins of QAnon
March 16, 2021 His six-part HBO docuseries, Q: Into the Storm, explores the intersections between the QAnon conspiracy theory QAnon, former president Donald Trump and the domestic terror attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. It streams on HBO Max this weekend.
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Kaitlynne Jensen ’23 Named Newman Civic FellowMarch 8, 2021 Politics major Kaitlynne Jensen ’23 of Milton-Freewater, Oregon, has received the prestigious Newman Civic Fellowship from Campus Compact.
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Kynde Kiefel Awarded Reid Service Award for Her Dedication to Community ArtMarch 8, 2021 Whitman College proudly recognizes Kynde Kiefel, co-director of the Donald H. Sheehan Gallery, with the Pete and Hedda Reid Service Award as part of the Walla Walla Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Higher Education Community Service Award. The 2020 Annual Community Awards banquet, hosted by the Walla Walla Valley Chamber of Commerce, was held virtually this year throughout the month of February.
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Ankeny Field Through the YearsFor more than a century, Ankeny Field has been at the center of campus life at Whitman. Take a peek at field photos from yesteryear.
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A Promise for In-State StudentsWhitman College's new Tuition Commitment guarantees qualified financial support to students who live in Washington state.
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Bridging the DistanceThe pandemic and the shift to remote learning didn’t halt Whitman students’ commitment to engaging with the local community.
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Googling SuccessAl-Rahim Merali ’13 uses all he learned at Whitman in a job he didn’t know existed at the time.
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A Catalyst for ConnectionBiology professor Ginger Withers envisions the STEM Hub as a place of study, support and opportunity.
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Finding HomeWorld Series winner Blake Treinen mentors Blues athletes and throws himself into life in Walla Walla.
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Touched Beyond WordsProfessor Álvaro Santana-Acuña explores the creation and power of the literary classic “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
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At the Art of the MatterFrom Gallery Walls to Hallways to Classrooms, Whitman’s Art Collection Expands Its Diversity in Beautiful and Meaningful Ways
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Aliens, Bigfoot and the PodcasterWhitman alum Laura Krantz explores the weird side of history and science in her hit podcast “Wild Thing.”
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A Poetic JourneyFirst-year student and poet Tejashree Jadhav connects and competes from a world away.
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Environmental Historian Daniel Grant '10 Reflects on Lingering Symbolism of Border Wall
February 28, 2021 He writes, "Borders cannot be truly fixed. Our preoccupation with the need to 'control' the border neglects the fact that the landscape makes a mockery of such attempts. Instead, seeing the border as provisional and fluid might help us soften the binary distinctions between 'us' and 'them' that a wall tempts us to make."
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Whitman Students Celebrate Return to Walla Walla for Spring Semester
February 28, 2021 After two semesters of remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Whitman welcomed students back to campus late last month, with a raft of safety procedures in place to keep the community healthy.
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Whitman College President Kathy Murray Announces Plans to Retire in 2022February 22, 2021 In a statement to the Whitman College community on Feb. 22, 2021, Kathleen M. Murray, the college’s 14th president, announced her plans to retire at the end of the 2021-2022 school year.
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