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March 23, 2022

Whitman

Christina and Peter Dawson have donated a $2 million gift to Whitman to endow the Kathleen M. Murray Chair in Computer Science. The chair is named for Whitman President Kathleen Murray, who is retiring at the end of this academic year. Established in 2015, the computer science program was approved as a new major in 2016 during Murray’s first year in office, and then officially offered to students starting with the 2017-18 academic year. Since then, it has continued to expand, with courses including web design, introduction to data science, computational problem solving and human-computer interaction. Graduates have gone on to careers at Google, Microsoft and other competitive companies. Each full-time computer science faculty member currently advises nearly 30 students. The Dawsons’ gift will allow the college to search for an additional computer science faculty member this year.




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