Name: Lynn Noland
Job title: Director of Sponsored Programs
Department: Academic Affairs
How long have you worked at Whitworth? 13 years
What do you like best about your job? Working with faculty and helping them advance their research, as well as helping develop new programs here on campus
In what ways do your gifts and abilities help meet the needs of the campus community you serve? By providing knowledge of very complicated and always-changing grant systems – every funder and every federal agency has different rules – and by making sure the university is in compliance with all the federal regulations tied to receiving federal money
Favorite book: Usually the one I am reading at the moment, so The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Favorite movie: "The Power of One"
Favorite food: Pasta
Favorite quote: “Do you know what I want? I want justice – oceans of it. I want fairness – rivers of it. That’s what I want, that’s all I want.” Amos 5
Favorite music: Jazz
Favorite animal: Dog
Guilty pleasure: Ice cream
Hobbies: Quilting, gardening, cross-stitch, knitting and reading
Best vacation ever: Two weeks in Provence
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
We’d be surprised to know that…I play the piano.
I collect…bells.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? To the village of Hoffnungstal, in Ukraine, where my grandparents and great-grandparents were born
If you could try anything and not fail, what dream would you attempt? Write a novel
What is your favorite sound? Rain falling on the cabin roof at Lake Coeur d’Alene
What is your life motto? “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” – Oscar Wilde
If the whole world was listening, what would you say? “War is not the answer.”
Favorite childhood book: Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
Favorite childhood TV shows: “Sky King,” “Cisco Kid,” “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
Least favorite word: Can’t
If you could go on a road trip with anyone (from the past or present), who would you choose and where would you go? My three kids, wherever they wanted to go
Best high school class subject: History
