Art History Professor Paula Radisich, Ph.D.
Many Whittier College students have had the privilege of passing through Professor Radisich’s courses, including Western Art: Renaissance to the Present, Age of Impressionism, Age of Dada and Surrealism, and Art of the Eighteenth Century. But one of her favorite courses to teach at Whittier has been Women Artists from the Renaissance to the Present.
A scholar of eighteenth-century French art, Radisich published articles on aspects of the period and two books—Hubert Robert: Painted Spaces of the Enlightenment and Pastiche, Fashion, and Galanterie in Chardin’s Genre Subjects. She earned her B.A. and Ph.D. at UCLA.
Chemistry Professor Devin Iimoto, Ph.D.
Professor Iimoto has worked at Whittier College for over three decades. Through the years, he has taught Biochemistry, Chemistry Seminar, Integrated Laboratory, Introduction to Chemistry, Preparation for General Chemistry, General Chemistry laboratory, an AIDS education course, and a Freshman Writing Seminar.
Iimoto received the Harry W. Nerhood Teaching Excellence Award in 2009. He says one of his career highlights was the opportunity to teach his AIDS course at Lingnan University in Hong Kong in the spring of 2011.
During his time at Whittier, he has taken pride in researching and collaborating with students and other faculty to study agents to prevent and treat cancer, including triazenes and Chinese herbal extracts. He has also worked with certain enzymes found in snake venom to study whether they might be useful for treating heart attacks and strokes.
In addition, Iimoto served as Chair of the Faculty from 2013 to 2015 and as a co-director of the Whittier College Healthcare Leadership program from 2015 to 2018.
Iimoto attended Carleton College in Minnesota and graduate school at the University of California, San Diego, where he took a postdoctoral position in the Department of Neuroscience.