Course schedules for January, Spring, and Summer ’22 are now live! That means that we get to take a look at some of the exciting opportunities available to Honors students as registration (Nov. 8 – Nov. 19) approaches. Note: Current Honors students should already have received an email with upcoming course offerings. If you did… Continue reading Registration Guide: January and Spring 2022
Last summer, I got the chance to get honors credit for an academic internship I did with Site Savvy, a web design business in my hometown of Yakima, WA. Web design is a broader field than most people realize, and so, as I went into my very first internship, I didn’t really know what to… Continue reading Summer Internship Spotlight: Sarah Immel
On September 22, 2021, over a thousand Whitworth students, faculty, and staff participated in Community Building Day, Whitworth’s annual service event. For the university as a whole, Community Building Day means partnering with and giving back to our Spokane community. For students and faculty involved in the George Whitworth Honors Program, it is also an… Continue reading Community Building Day 2021: Part of Something Bigger
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
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
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
