Honors Life at Whitworth

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New Computer Science Degrees for 2024

As technology evolves at a rapid pace, so must education. The Whitworth University Computer Science department is excited to announce new degrees for the 2024 academic year, reflecting years of thoughtful dialogues between faculty and students, feedback, and a commitment to inclusivity and interdisciplinary learning. 

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STEM Night 10/21/24

This Monday, at 7 in the HUB MPR, STEM students will share their summer research. The poster session will begin at 7:30 and showcase students’ work.

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Infinite and the Void: Interdisciplinary learning through mathematical concepts

Next spring, SC-126: Infinite and the Void will become an Honors class, allowing it to count towards Honors credit for Honors students.
This course examines concepts of math through an interdisciplinary lens. Charlie Rodriguez, a senior math major who TA’d for the class, said that people often think that mathematics has no meaningful connection to life. He says this “couldn’t be further from the truth.”

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Student Job Openings for 2024

Are you passionate about Honors and looking for an on-campus job? The Honors Program is hiring for four separate positions! Click here to learn more about the positions and how to apply.

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Honors: Courses for Fall 2023

George F. Whitworth Honors Program: Fall 2023 Offerings Questions: Contact Honors Director Dr. Bert Emerson at dbemerson@whitworth.edu Shared Curriculum Offerings Upper Division “H” and Major

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Reflections from an Honors Graduate

As I look back on my past four years at Whitworth, there are many opportunities, lessons and people that I am very grateful for. As a part of the group of students who endured the wrath of COVID-19 on their college experience, these past four years have been hard. Now that I have made it on to the other side and have adorned my cap and gown, I can say the growth I have experienced has been very rewarding.

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Sigma Xi: Five new Honors students inducted

Sigma Xi Five new Honors students inducted This semester, five honors students were inducted into the Sigma Xi branch at Whitworth. Sigma Xi is a well-respected National Research Honors Society that supports quantitative research aimed at positively advancing society, according to Dr. Aaron Putzke.  The five students added this semester include Eleanor Jeffers, Casey Moddrell, Kendall Sandhop, Corrine Vasiloff, and Ethan Worth. While this organization has traditionally focused on STEM fields, Whitworth has made a goal to include other disciplines with quantitative research. This allows Whitworth’s chapter to be more inclusive with students that are both in

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Water Rights Research Project: Celia Hagey

As an English Writing major, I am constantly asked the question, “what are you going to do with your degree?” The answer, as I have discovered during my time in Whitworth’s honors program, is that the possibilities are far more wide-reaching than even I would have guessed as I declared my major in 2019. Eighteen-year-old literature-loving me would not have anticipated using my writing skills to interpret and communicate water law— but that’s exactly what I did throughout the fall of 2021. HN300, or the community-based research honors seminar, is a class that divides honors students into

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Ryan B. and Lisa H. Present their Research at Genetics Society of America Conference in Washington DC

            During the summer 2019 and continuing into the school year, we worked in the developmental biology lab of Dr. Aaron Putzke here at Whitworth University. We worked on a project that was presented at an international conference by Dr. Putzke and that we presented at the regional Murdock College Science Research Conference in November of 2019. Our project has now been accepted to be presented by us at The Allied Genetics Conference in Washington DC in April. Our project has also led to a paper that we contributed to and is being submitted to the G3

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