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December
When Diversity is Tradition
12.15.07 In an editorial published in the December issue of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, President Sharon Herzbeger shares her views on how Whittier College has successfully built a campus culture of diversity. More »
Local Genealogical Society's Materials Become Wardman Library Special Collection
12.09.07 The Whittier Area Genealogical Society (WAGS) has moved its extensive heritage collection of more than 3,000 items—including family histories, biographies, histories on American settlers, research guides, and works on Native Americans, among others—to the Bonnie Bell Wardman Library, where it will be available to students of the College, as well as visiting researchers. The move came at the suggestion of WAGS President John Hergesheimer, himself a 1954 alumnus of the College.
Theatre Students Recieve Honors, Invitation to Scholarship Competition
12.01.07 Four Whittier students will head to the campus of Cal State LA this Feburary to compete against fellow undergrad and grad theatre students for a regional award, with a chance to compete nationally. Invited competitors are Laura Hurlburt and Megan Gerber for their work in "Twelfth Night," Cody Goulder and Matt Calloway for their work in "Stop Kiss." More »
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November
Whittier Team Wins L.A. Student Film Festival Award
11.14.07 On Nov. 13, Campus MovieFest, billed as the "world’s largest student film festival," held its Los Angeles Grand Finale at the famed Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The event featured the top 16 short movies made in one week from over 8,000 students at USC, UCLA, Pomona, and Whittier. Winner of the Best Concept award for the short “When We Lost Chris” was Whittier first-year student team Christopher Davis, Cassie Duray-Bito, Ashley Delzell, Lilia Hole, Jeffrey DeBarr, Mark Juaton, Allison Desfor, and Zack Knight.
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October
Sweet Ride: Young Entrepreneur Makes Waves Combining Internet, Ingenuity
The Rock, Fall 2007 Matt Jung '08 converts his surf hobby into a booming enterprise, and plans to expand further into the surf-skate-snow culture. More »
Social Studies: Anne Sebanc Investigates the Influence of Friendship
The Rock, Fall 2007 Associate Professor of Child Development Sebanc completes her three-year NSF grant project. More »
Humanitarian-Authors Isabel Allende and William C. Gordon Receive Honorary Degrees
10.05.07 Celebrated authors and humanitarians Isabel Allende and William C. Gordon each received an honorary doctorate of humane letters (L.H.D.) from Whittier College in a formal ceremony Thursday evening, held at the Ruth B. Shannon Center. More »
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September
International Event To Explore The Future of U.S.-China Business Relations
09.26.07 Whittier College is proud to host The Future of U.S.-China Business Relations, a video teleconference in "real time" on September 26, in the Ruth B. Shannon Center. Via a live video feed, a panel of experts at Whittier and at SIAS University in China will discuss how changing technology, environmental practices, and other critical factors will likely affect U.S.-Chinese commerce and exchange over the next decade. More »
Whittier Receives $3M Gift Toward Sciences
09.25.07 Whittier College alumni Chester '40 and Olive McCloskey '44 have donated $3 million to Whittier College, in order to enhance the existing chemistry program and establish a critical professorship. McCloskey is the founder of Norac, Inc., a leading chemical manufacturing company. More »
Dress Designed by Cassie Ho '09 Featured at San Francisco Fashion Week
09.14.07 Biology major Ho's first foray into the fashion industry pays off in accolades, named product. More »
Physics Professor Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
09.05.07
The National Science Foundation awarded Glenn Piner, associate professor of physics, a multi-year grant exceeding $150K to continue his study of a large survey of blazars, the extremely active regions surrounding massive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. Piner uses the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array, a system of 10 interconnected radio-telescope antennas spanning the United States, to analyze these astronomical objects.
Convocation Remarks Recommend "Leaping Into the Dark"
to Find Success
09.03.07
During the traditional Orientation Convocation and Light of Learning ceremony, held on Sunday, September 2, President Sharon Herzberger advised new students to embrace uncertainty over the next four years, to "seize every opportunity, savor every experience, and be open to change." To read President Herzberger's full address, please click here. To see the slideshow from Orientation, click here.
Honor Society Recognized
09.01.07
Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society, awarded Whittier College with the prestigious El Premio Octavio Paz, an honor recognizing chapters that maintain an outstanding record of activity and service for three consecutive years. Whittier’s Upsilon Pi was one of eight collegiate chapters to receive the award this year, out of more than 500 chapters nationwide; Doreen O’Connor-Gomez, associate professor of Spanish and Upsilon Pi advisor, accepted the award on behalf of the College at the organization’s convention in San Diego.
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August
Art Prof Featured in "Bosnian Newsweek"
08.15.07 Associate Professor of Art Endi Poskovic was featured in Slobodna Bosna, the largest weekly tabloid magazine in Bosnia, equivalent to America’s Newsweek. The three-page article profiles his art, teaching, life, and career in his adopted country, the United States, and how it all began in the Socialist Federative Republic of Bosnia (then Yugoslavia).
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July
Whittier College Receives Significant Art Loan
07.19.07 College becomes first West Coast School selected for Berman Foundation sculptures More »
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