Honors Peer Mentorship
There has been a new initiative within the Honors Program to emphasize peer mentorship. Within the last few weeks, Honors Junior and Senior mentors met with their underclassmen mentees.
December 1, 2025
There has been a new initiative within the Honors Program to emphasize peer mentorship. Within the last few weeks, Honors Junior and Senior mentors met with their underclassmen mentees.
Whitworth is the proud host of a literary journal called Script. Script is a completely student-run journal that has been producing editions since 1987, and this year’s edition is collecting submissions from several new categories.
The Whitworth Democracy Lab’s Banned Book Club hosted our 2025 Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week ran from Oct 5-11 this year. The Banned Book Club finished reading 1984 by George Orwell and initiated several projects on campus.
When reading current or aged literature pieces, in Spanish, English, or any other language, the words we encounter in our readings can feel timeless or oddly foreign. The use of linguistic terms can tell the reader a lot – not just about the language itself, but about the period the piece was written in and how languages have evolved alongside their culture, class, and other impacting aspects.
Honors Political Science student, Nyah Hill, spends Spring 2025 in Tanzania learning everything she can about her home away from home.
Nine of our Whitworth Sigma Tau Delta chapter members are flying out to present at the annual international convention in Pittsburgh.
Sarah Immel is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh studying Responsible Natural Language Processing.
Come see Whitworth’s production of Little Women March 7th/8th, 14th/15th at 7:30pm, doors at 7:00pm, or March 16th at 2:30pm, doors at 2:00pm
Ally McAfee spent Jan Term on a trip in Oxford, England with Dr. Clark and writes about her experience in the ancient city.
Whitworth to send 9 presenters to the Sigma Tau Delta, an international English Honors Society, Conference March 19-22 in Pittsburg, PA.
Kyle Marquez spent his summer interning with the Department of Agriculture, specifically the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Washington.
This semester, the Honors Program and its students were hard at work promoting our message of thriving in the world as it is and developing it as it should be.