Whitman Stories

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.

Winning the prestigious fellowship is a watershed moment in the senior’s study of rivers and their connection to food production.

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.

Politics major Kaitlynne Jensen ’23 of Milton-Freewater, Oregon, has received the prestigious Newman Civic Fellowship from Campus Compact.

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.

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."

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.

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.

A recently published study by psychology professor Thomas Armstrong, a Cambridge researcher and several Whitties examines disgust’s resistance to exposure therapy.

Whitman’s annual student-run Power & Privilege Symposium, which provides opportunities for the Whitman community to discuss forms of structural oppression, opened with a keynote address and discussion led by Nigerian-American writer and photographer Teju Cole.

New York Times columnist Ron Lieber references Whitman's financial aid policy in favorable terms in an interview with NPR about his new book, “The Price You Pay for College.”

New York Times columnist Ron Lieber discusses his new book, The Price You Pay for College, in an interview with the podcost Motley Fool Answers. He praises Whitman's policy of providing financial aid guarantees to prospective students before they even apply.