Thursday, November 14, 2024
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Exploring Research Opportunities: A Vital Part of the Academic Journey
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Feature by: Career and Community Engagement Center
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Photo: Professor of Chemistry Frank Dunnivant and summer research student McKenna McShane ’26 in the environmental chemistry lab
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For many students at Whitman, the academic experience extends beyond the classroom and into the lab or field, particularly for students in STEM fields. The senior thesis requirement for many majors, often involving data collection and analysis, highlights how research is central to the educational process. Research experiences are vital because they offer students the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge they’ve acquired in the classroom in a lab or field situation. These experiences provide powerful opportunities to make connections between theory and practice while developing critical thinking skills that will serve students throughout their career.
At the Career and Community Engagement Center (CCEC), our role is to support students in navigating the process of finding a research opportunity that aligns with their interests and goals. We can’t tell you exactly what to research—but we can guide you in exploring and securing an experience that will be meaningful to you.
So, how do we work with a student who comes to us seeking a summer research experience? It all starts with a conversation.
Read more.
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Professor Published in The Comparatist
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Religion Xiaobo Yuan recently published a review essay of “Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asia Sinosphere” (editors Pheng Cheah and Caroline S. Hau) in the November 2024 issue of “The Comparatist.” Yuan’s essay unpacks the uneasy relationship between postcolonial studies and the Sinosphere (the regions of East and Southeast Asia significantly shaped by China), and suggests how this new agenda-setting volume might expand postcolonialism’s geographic and conceptual boundaries.
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Whitman Faculty Speaks Tonight in Visiting Writers Reading Series
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Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Rhetoric Georgia Cloepfil is the next speaker in the Visiting Writers Reading Series. She will discuss her new memoir “The Striker and the Clock” tonight at 6 p.m. in Hunter Conservatory’s Kimball Theatre.
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Rock Your Mocs Day is a world-wide social media campaign that takes place every year on Nov. 15 during National Native American Heritage Month. It was first launched in 2011 by Jaylyn Atsye as a way for Native Americans and Indigenous peoples internationally to express solidarity in proudly embracing their identity.
Please join Whitman’s Native American Outreach at the front entrance of Cleveland Commons on Friday, Nov. 15 at 1 p.m. to take a group photo. If you can’t make it then, take your own photo and post it on social media using the hashtags #rockyourmocs and #rockyourmocsatwhitmancollege.
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SAC Open Office Hours Today
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Staff are invited to meet with Staff Advisory Council (SAC) member Peter Shultz today from 10:30–11:30 a.m. in Jewett Café. If you are unable to attend but have topics of interest or questions for SAC, please email them at sac@whitman.edu or fill out this anonymous form.
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The sorority community’s finance officers/treasurers recently completed two semesters of work on the Ad Hoc Panhellenic Finance Committee. During that time, they completed two main projects, improving financial transparency in explaining costs to potential members and creating new guidelines for equitable usage of the Panhellenic Sisterhood Fund. From left to right: Kappa Alpha Theta Vice President of Finance Naia Willemsen ’25, Delta Gamma Vice President of Finance Chappell Culberston ’27, Panhellenic Treasurer Valeria Miranda Moreno ’27, Kappa Kappa Gamma Vice President of Finance Maddie Sramek ’25 and Alpha Phi Vice President of Finance Angela Roberts ’27.
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Movement That Matters: Step Aerobics
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Reid Campus Center, All Faiths Room
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Hunter Conservatory, Kimball Theatre
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