Whitman Stories
October 1, 2019
Associate Professor of Psychology Pavel Blagov Explores Link Between Personality and Music Taste
His research team surveyed 379 Americans ages 18-65 on their musical preferences, movie interests, personality traits, and psychopathic tendencies.
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September 30, 2019
Video: Students Reflect on Orientation Programs
First-year students at Whitman College have the opportunity to meet fellow incoming students
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September 27, 2019
Biology Major Eli Fournier '20 Studies Sockeye Salmon Life Cycle in Alaska
He conducted field work with Daniel Schindler, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Washington researching how the millions of fish that hatch in the freshwater lakes and streams along Alaska's Bristol Bay head out to sea and then return to their birthplace to spawn and die. A section of their anatomy called the otolith, a bit of calcium carbonate that sits within the salmon's inner ear and acts like an internal GPS, provides clues about their movements.
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September 26, 2019
Life After Whitman: Kelly Katon '01 Finds Calling in Event Management
Sociology and geology major Kelly Katon '01 is the manager of events at Pokemon Company International in Bellevue. Katon found her passion for event planning the first day she stepped foot on Holland America Line cruise ship as crew staff and there was a sail-away party happening on deck.
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September 26, 2019
Recruiter Email Leads Jake Harwood '14 to Career in Project Management
The art of the 30-minute conversation is a skill Jake Harwood '14 mastered while working as an Admission intern during his senior year at Whitman. As part of his internship, Harwood interviewed prospective students trying to get to the core of the student's persona during a brief 30-minute window.
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September 18, 2019
BBMB Professor Brit Moss and Hannah Klaeser '17 Advance Research in Plant Biology
The pair co-authored a new peer-reviewed science publication in the journal Plant Direct.
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September 6, 2019
VIDEO: Meet the Class of 2023
The incoming class of 2023 is the most diverse in Whitman College history. Check out some of what makes this class special in this video.
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September 5, 2019
Gender, Power, Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth Come Together for 'Cultivating the Queen'
On Saturday, Sept. 7, the Walla Walla community gets a chance to see the theatrical results of a Whitman College faculty-student summer research project.
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September 3, 2019
Experience as Tour Guide Launched Economics Major into Technology Career
Applying to colleges wasn’t Brian Choe’s ’14 last experience with college admission processes. Today, it’s his full-time career. Choe is a program manager for Technolutions, a company that helps colleges manage student recruitment and enrollment.
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September 3, 2019
Meet Our Whitties: Alexa Lim '22
Meet Our Whitties is an occasional feature produced by the Office of Communications. It features a Q&A with students from across Whitman College.
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August 29, 2019
Whitman College Welcomes Most Diverse Incoming Class for 2019-2020 Year
Whitman College welcomes its most diverse incoming class for 2019-2020 year.
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August 27, 2019
Internship with WCTS Built Foundation for Career in Sports Content
It’s nothing new that the skills learned by students while at Whitman will be beneficial later in life, but it is the variety of activities, classes, jobs and experiences from which these skills are acquired that may come as a surprise.
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