English Professor Jonathan Burton has seen success in two grant proposals with his writing students. The first proposal was awarded $10,000 for the renovation and restocking of the Poet Pantry, with a ribbon cutting scheduled for April 2 at 11:30 a.m. The second has made it to the final round of funding, and was submitted on March 14 in support of the Adaptive Freedom Foundation, a group that takes people with disabilities paddle-boarding throughout Southern California.
Chemistry Professor Ralph Isovitsch recently completed a program designed to enhance culturally responsive teaching at Hispanic-serving institutions, earning a certificate from the professional development organization ESCALA on March 6.
English Professor Tony Barnstone presented at University of California, Irvine along with writer Jennifer Clement in a talk mediated by Sholeh Wolpe on March 5. Barnstone analyzed the adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita to the 1962 film by Stanley Kubrick, focusing on and how the writer and filmmaker navigated the question of taboos and censorship.
Political Science Professor Sara Angevine published an article titled “Gender Matters (Even More): Reflections on the Future of Politics & Gender” in the journal Politics & Gender on March 5. Additionally, Angevine, along with undergraduate students Duncan Smith and Evan Josten, presented research at the Southern California Political Behavior Conference in January.
As part of the Mellon-funded StoryLab grant initiative, Professors Danny Jauregui, Kate Palmer Albers, and Postdoctoral StoryLab/Rustin Fellow Philomena Lopez-Rivas convened a panel at the annual College Art Association conference in New York, "Brownness In Plain Sight/Brownness as Practice" on Feb. 13. The goal of the panel was to extend the campus and community work of the grant to artists and scholars nationally.
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Jordan Hanson has been awarded a $300,000, three-year research grant through the Naval Engineering Education Consortium. The grant will fund multiple opportunities for student researchers to work with Hanson, such as summer internships and paid research positions during the academic year. The grant will also help the acquisition of new lab equipment for Whittier College.
Choral Director Alexandra Grabarchuk had her article "People Sing When They're Happy: Popular Music in 1970s Soviet Comedic Cinema” published in peer-reviewed journal Popular Music through Cambridge University Press in February.
English Professor Emeritus Wendy Furman-Adams wrote a chapter in Milton Across Borders and Media, edited by Islam Issa and Angelica Duran, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Earlier this semester, the work won the Irene Samuel Award from the Milton Society of America for the best collection of 2023.
Did you know that Genevieve Shaul Connick Chair in Religion Rosemary P. Carbine sits on editorial board of the online and open-access international journal Critical Theology? Read the Winter 2025 issue here.
Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science David Mbora published a paper with his former student Fiona M. Staczek on December 25, 2024, in Environmental Entomology.
Mathematics Lecturer Gordon Wong co-wrote a paper titled "Optimization of the Floyd-Warshall Shortest Path Algorithm" with student Ty Carlson, and Carlson presented the paper at the 2024 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing in Las Vegas in July 2024.
Librarian Joseph Dmohowski published “Richard Nixon at Whittier College: The Education of a Leader" in 2023. It has recently been updated with additional research.
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