Sarah Bolton (physicist)
Sarah Bolton is an American physicist and university administrator who currently serves as the president of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She assumed this position on July 1, 2022. Bolton has been a strong supporter of Dreamers, students who are undocumented but born in the United States, Posse scholars, a program to "empower diverse groups of leaders who transform communities, this country and the world," and international students, especially when many could not return home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| 15th President of Whitman College | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Kathleen M. Murray |
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| Alma mater | Brown University (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Thesis | Dimensionality dependence of indium gallium arsenide nonlinear optical response (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Daniel S. Chemla |
Prior to her tenure at Whitman, Bolton was president of the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio from 2016 to 2022, as well as dean and professor of physics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts from 1995 to 2016.
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