Whitman Stories

After an overlong intermission due to the pandemic, live music, dance and theater are back at Whitman College.

In an op-ed, President Kathleen Murray explains the benefits of Whitman's Early Financial Aid Guarantee and urges other colleges to adapt similar programs to provide prospective students and families a guaranteed preview of their financial aid package before they apply.

Whitman’s president Kathleen M. Murray discusses the college’s Early Financial Aid Guarantee and her upcoming retirement.

The world hosts hundreds of wildly different venomous snake species, but somehow even distantly related species independently evolved specialized fangs with venom-carrying grooves—a longtime puzzle spurring new research. "I love seeing modern imaging technology and beautiful micro CT scans applied to a classic question," says Jackson, a trained herpetologist. She added that snakes may have developed venom-delivering teeth via other routes as well.

Mary Raschko, associate professor in the department of English, has been integral to the planning and development of the newly re-designed First Year Seminars (FYS) program on campus, in which she is serving as the first Director of the re-vamped curriculum.

Penrose Library's new Edwards Classroom is a perfect tribute to the Whitman College history professor and his wife.

Eguia, a biochemistry, biophysics, and molecular biology (BBMB) major at Whitman and biologist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, spoke with Steve Inskeep and Michaeleen Doucleff of NPR's Morning Edition about the likely end game for COVID-19.

Art created at the Walla Walla Foundry, one of the largest contemporary fine-art foundries in the world, has been exhibited, collected, and installed around the globe, from MoMA and Central Park to the Palace of Versailles. The next exhibition, opening Nov. 4, is dedicated to late founder Mark Anderson '78 and “his relationships with many of the artists he served at the Walla Walla Foundry" and will feature work by Jim Dine, Deborah Butterfield, Nancy Graves, Keiko Hara, Manuel Neri, Lynda Benglis and more drawn from Mark and Patty Anderson’s permanent collection.

The program, run out of the Career and Community Engagement Center, has had three cohorts, running as pilot projects. That work has to date involved 34 mentors and 45 mentees, all of whom are provided a handbook with resources, activity suggestions, a calendar of professional development events and expectations of the roles of participants.

The Student Engagement Center’s New Name Reflects an Ongoing Mission.

Nancy and Greg Serrurier, parents to Ben Serrurier ’11, have established the Serrurier Life After Whitman Endowment to transform the way Whitman students prepare for callings and careers, beginning with the Class of 2025 pilot program.

After more than two decades of teaching other subjects, Walla Walla High School pottery teacher Genie Huntemann has found her dream job.