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April 2, 2021
Senator Patty Murray and Whitman Students Discuss Health Equity
In a special virtual event for the Whitman community, Washington State Senator Patty Murray took part in a panel discussion. The discourse centered on a report authored by Murray’s office titled “COVID-19 & Achieving Health Equity: Congressional Action Is Necessary To Address Racism And Inequality In The U.S. Health Care System.”
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April 1, 2021
‘Banking on Whitman’ Rosendo Guizar ’94 credits his high school librarian, Darcy Judd Wyant Ahlquist ’54, with his success
Baker Boyer Bank's Chief Credit Officer Rosendo Guizar ’94 credits his success to the encouragement and guidance he received from his high school librarian, Darcy Judd Wyant Ahlquist ’54.
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March 26, 2021
Labyrinth Adds Interfaith Outdoor Space to Whitman Campus
Whitman College has a new interfaith outdoor space on campus. In early March, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life led the installation of a labyrinth behind Marcus House and the campus bike shop on Shady Rill Street.
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March 25, 2021
Tech Entrepreneur David Wallace '10 Launches Agriculture Startup
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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March 23, 2021
Liam Voorhees ’21 Awarded Prestigious Watson Fellowship
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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March 16, 2021
Cullen Hoback '03 Produces HBO Docuseries on Origins of QAnon
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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March 8, 2021
Kaitlynne Jensen ’23 Named Newman Civic Fellow
Politics major Kaitlynne Jensen ’23 of Milton-Freewater, Oregon, has received the prestigious Newman Civic Fellowship from Campus Compact.
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March 8, 2021
Kynde Kiefel Awarded Reid Service Award for Her Dedication to Community Art
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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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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