Whitman Stories

A chance reconnection between Whitman College alum and playwright Lisa Battle ’07 and her former theater professor and director Nancy Simon ’63 leads to the live premier of “The Comfort to Come.”

Akshay and Keech Shetty invest in computer science and the value of a liberal arts education

Marshal McReal makes a meaningful $1 million estate gift to Whitman students

A Clubb family gift continues a long legacy of championing education

The college’s first cohort of Inclusion Fellows share their vision for a campus where everyone belongs.

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.