AARON BRATT Class of 2024. Aaron Bratt is a double major in music composition and English writing. Aaron cares deeply about storytelling and, although ecology isn’t his area of study, Aaron hopes to help change the stories we tell ourselves about climate change through this project and to start honest
DELANEY WOODS Class of 2024. Health Sciences Major. Breaking the Cycle: Redefining healthcare through overprescription awareness In a healthcare system reliant on pharmacological interventions, patient health is significantly compromised. Given the diverse and often unknown influences at play, how can we mitigate the negative impacts associated with overprescription? This project
KAE BENTON Class of 2024. Biochemistry Major. As a student who has spent many hours in biology and chemistry classes, I have fostered a deep appreciation for the world of science and all that comes with it. However, in my time as an undergraduate student, I became more aware of
ISABELLE SCOTTLIND Class of 2024. Isabelle is an undergraduate student at Whitworth University pursing her Bachelor’s in English and History. She hopes to pursue a career in the museum industry with a focus in women’s and LGBTQIA+ history. The Straight and Narrow Ridge: Queer Activism and Resistance at Whitworth and
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
Q & A with Director of Honors Bert Emerson What is the honors program? Honors programs and colleges were largely started at big research universities
Honors goes to see saxophonist Joshua Redman perform with the Whitworth Jazz Ensemble “The act of playing music becomes emotionally and spiritually whole when played
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
Riia Yazepova, a freshman Honors student, has enjoyed how the Honors floor has connected her with motivated students and friends.
Read this article to discover exactly what that experience has looked like and the friends she has made along the way!
Every year during the Spring semester, Whitworth hosts a few Honors scholarship weekends. These weekends are times in which highly motivated students are invited to stay at Whitworth. During the weekend, the invited students give a speech, participate in a discussion group, and write an essay in hopes of winning a full ride scholarship or a runner-up $1,000 a year scholarship.
Read about Alex’s experience winning one of the full-ride scholarships this spring!
Kaitlyn Wornath, a senior majoring in accounting, conducted an independent study during fall of 2022. This study focused on four different media sources, which each examined the applicability of business and ethics working together. Read this summary by Kaitlyn to discover the essential messages of those media sources and how the independent study has inspired her to continue the personal development mission and implement ethics into the business world.
In Jan Term 2023, a handful of Honors students took the course Resurrection Science, a class that covers topics such as genome editing, de-extinction, and the connection between DNA and health. Read this post to see how they learned and grew both academically and personally.
#DOA-LA19: The Huntington by Ethan Paxton, ’22 A massive compound spanning a whopping 207 acres, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens is perhaps
#DOA-LA19: Death House at the Road Theatre by Annika Bjornson, ’22 “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find
#DOA-LA19: Downtown LA Graffiti Arts by Heidi Massey, ’22 Standing in sharp contrast to the pristine Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels our class had
#DOA-LA19: The Edge of Jazz at Walt Disney Concert Hall by Drew Bair, ’22 Throughout our time in Los Angeles, we have been wrestling with
