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Alumni
Stories of War and Peace
Martin Grossman’s ’73 newest novel, Club Saigon, is a military thriller, which follows four special forces soldiers…
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College Affairs
Poets Welcomed for Whittier Weekend 2017
The College celebrated its annual Homecoming festivities with hundreds of alumni, students, friends, family, faculty,…
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Alumni
2017 Poet Awards Celebrate Exceptional Whittier College Alumni
Five outstanding Poets recognized for their significant impact on the College and beyond Whittier College announces the…
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Students Conduct Ongoing Research Linking Aging and Speech Comprehension
Whittier College Assistant Professor of Psychology Amanda Lash, Ph.D. has launched a speech and memory lab on campus.…
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College Affairs
Whittier’s Baseball Institute Features Dodgers Collection
Bound in Dodger blue and including thousands of pages of archived information, the single largest private collection of…
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Students
Researching the U.S. Impact on Latin American Politics
Growing up in a politically polarized El Salvador, Roberto Bonilla ’18 was left with a lot of unanswered questions. But…
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Students
After 'Gaslight,' Poets Are Heading to Kennedy Center Stage
After wrapping a successful run of Whittier College’s fall play, three theatre majors will go on to showcase their…
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Students
Exploring Street Art in Downtown Los Angeles
Standing before a gigantic painting of a bouquet of flowers, bursting with blues and pinks larger than life, Emerson…
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Coding the Future of Physical Therapy
Bailey Russ ’18 and Frankie Capraro ’18 are laying the foundation for an Xbox program that could change how physical…
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College Affairs
College Noted for Great Teaching, Access, Engaged Students and Alumni
Whittier College has once again been named one of the top national liberal arts colleges by the Princeton Review,…
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College Affairs
New Play Place at Broadoaks
With the generous support of Board of Trustees Member Maggie Koong ’14, her mother Ting Yuk Chee, and SoCal Industries…
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College Affairs
Whittier College to Pursue a 100 Percent Tobacco-Free Campus by Fall 2018
Whittier College announced today an initiative to eliminate the use of tobacco and tobacco-related products on campus…
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Faculty and Staff
Whittier College Faculty Play Key Role in the Global Environmental Justice Project
A multi-disciplinary team of Whittier College professors is curating a series of documentaries and creating the…
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No Vacation for Chemistry Researchers
This summer, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Christina Bauer worked closely with a small group of students researching…
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Athletics
Poets Swimming and Diving Welcome New Head Coach
Coach Tim Hamlet has been selected to lead the Whittier College men’s and women’s swimming and diving program. “I am…
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