Whitman Stories
March 3, 2021
Aliens, Bigfoot and the Podcaster
Whitman alum Laura Krantz explores the weird side of history and science in her hit podcast “Wild Thing.”
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March 3, 2021
At the Art of the Matter
From Gallery Walls to Hallways to Classrooms, Whitman’s Art Collection Expands Its Diversity in Beautiful and Meaningful Ways
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March 3, 2021
Touched Beyond Words
Professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña explores the creation and power of the literary classic “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
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March 3, 2021
Googling Success
Al-Rahim Merali ’13 uses all he learned at Whitman in a job he didn’t know existed at the time.
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March 3, 2021
Finding Home
World Series winner Blake Treinen mentors Blues athletes and throws himself into life in Walla Walla.
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March 3, 2021
What’s Ours is Yours
Whitman lends deep freezer to local vaccination efforts.
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March 3, 2021
Bridging the Distance
The pandemic and the shift to remote learning didn’t halt Whitman students’ commitment to engaging with the local community.
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March 3, 2021
A Promise for In-State Students
Whitman College's new Tuition Commitment guarantees qualified financial support to students who live in Washington state.
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February 28, 2021
Environmental Historian Daniel Grant '10 Reflects on Lingering Symbolism of Border Wall
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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February 28, 2021
Whitman Students Celebrate Return to Walla Walla for Spring Semester
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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February 22, 2021
Whitman College President Kathy Murray Announces Plans to Retire in 2022
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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February 19, 2021
‘Forever Yuck,’ a Collaboration Rooted in Disgust
A recently published study by psychology professor Thomas Armstrong, a Cambridge researcher and several Whitties examines disgust’s resistance to exposure therapy.
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