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Faculty Q&A: Elise Forier Edie, Theatre
Meet the theatre department’s new associate professor and chair, Elise Forier Edie, MFA. She teaches courses like Acting, Directing and Playwriting. Q. What drew you to your academic discipline? A.…
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Q&A: Coach Rod Sandberg on D-I playoffs, Whitworth football
Rod Sandberg knows what national playoff football is all about. In his 10 years as head coach of Whitworth football, Sandberg has guided the Pirates to two Northwest Conference titles…
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Benjamin Barker ’17 wins U.S. Navy Band’s emerging composers award
Benjamin Barker ’17 has won the United States Navy Band’s 2024 Alton Augustus Adams Sr. Award for Emerging Composers for “A Hokusai Triptych,” his composition for concert band. Benjamin majored…
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Course Spotlight: International Human Rights
Whitworth brings the world to its classrooms! In International Human Rights, students participate in a simulation and represent delegates of various countries. Students get to apply human rights to a…
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Computer science program launches new course, Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities is a new course at Whitworth that’s part of the revamped B.A. in computer science, now called interdisciplinary computer science. Students in Digital Humanities have been engaging in…
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Whitworth Ethics Bowl team qualifies for nationals
Whitworth’s Ethics Bowl team is headed to nationals once again. The Philosoraptors took first place at the Northwest Regional Ethics Bowl on Nov. 23 at Pacific Lutheran University. The team…
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Whitworth professor, two students attend U.N. COP 29 climate conference
Whitworth Assistant Professor of Political Science Aaron Hitefield and two of his students, Dylan Richardson ’25 and Ziona Rose ’25, traveled to Baku, Azerbaijan, this month to attend the 29th…
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Renewing Mind & Heart Conference brings leading Christian thinkers to Whitworth
In October, leading Christian thinkers from across the country converged on Whitworth’s campus to discuss the future of Christian higher education and what makes a Christian university education worthwhile. The…
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Biology students take field trip to Verbrugge Environmental Center
Students in Professor of Biology Grant Casady’s Ecological Measures class took a field trip on Oct. 19 to the Verbrugge Environmental Center to measure stream quality metrics on the Little…
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