Hometown: North Spokane, WA Major: Theology, Women and Gender Studies Concentration Fun Fact: I love Spaghetti Westerns, which are movies of the Western genre produced by Italian film companies, filmed in Italy, for mostly American audiences. In that vein, the animated Western film, Rango, (yes, the one where Johnny Depp is a chameleon), is one of… Continue reading Senior Spotlight 2020: Daniel Roberts
This year, the inaugural Honors floor at Whitworth was created to see what would happen if a group of Honors students lived, studied, and worked together all year long on the same floor. The group of first year female students that pioneered this new program was put in the large and energetic Warren community and… Continue reading Honors Floor
Whitworth holds in high esteem it’s plethora of high achieving students, including Misikir Wondaferahu Adnew. Misikir is a senior who is double majoring in Health Science and Community Health. As head coordinator of the Health Professions Peer Mentorship Program since 2018, Miskir has helped to “overseeing a team of Health Science and Community Health students… Continue reading Misikir Adnew
Continuing in our series of highlighting Honors Program seniors, we have Grace Trumbo. Grace is an art history major who transferred to Whitworth as a junior from Cottey College in Missouri. Grace has received the Provost’s Transfer Scholarship, Enhanced Talent Art Award, Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship, and Piano Scholarship over the course of her two… Continue reading Grace Trumbo
The 2018-2019 school year brought new energy to the Honors Program. The inaugural women’s Honors floor in Warren Hall lived into the idea of living and learning communities on Whitworth’s campus. Eli Min lived on that hall, and we reached out to her to tell us about the Honors floor final event, the 2019 Honors… Continue reading 2019 Honors Monologues
Hometown: Spokane, Washington Major: English (Literature & Writing) Minor: Editing & Publishing Fun fact: Without meaning to, I started collecting bread tags so they wouldn’t just go to the landfill, and now I have a bunch of bread tags and nothing to do with them! Favorite honors class: American Literary Journals with Dr. Thom Caraway; this class made me aware… Continue reading Senior Spotlight 2020: Gabriel Meek
Hometown: Barrington, IL Majors: Arts Administration Minors: Leadership Studies, Community Arts, Honors Fun Fact: Lived in Switzerland for 3 years Favorite Honors Class: Whitworth TED Talk class –> It was a completely unique experience compared to any other type of class offered at Whitworth. Being able to learn and present a very specific type of organized work… Continue reading Senior Spotlight 2020: Andy Weeks
Q & A with Director of Honors Bert Emerson What is the honors program? Honors programs and colleges were largely started at big research universities in order to provide students with all the advantages of a small liberal arts college experience: students get to know their professors in smaller classes; they are guided through an… Continue reading Honors Q&A with Director Bert Emerson
A Freshman Jan Term Experience by Katie Lacayo I went on the Honors Freshman Jan Term Race Across America trip in 2016, not really knowing what it would be like or how it would transform my thinking. If I had not entered into the Honors program when I first came… Continue reading A Freshman Jan Term Experience
DOA-LA19 Domain of the Arts, Los Angeles Jan Term 2019 An immersive, experiential learning course, Domain of the Arts—Los Angeles combines theoretical and historical readings about the history and present of the arts with guided excursions into the different realms of artistic production throughout LA. We address the complex issues pertaining to the term “domain”… Continue reading DOA-LA19: Domain of the Arts, Los Angeles
