Film wins top festival prize
The latest feature film by Associate Professor of Art and Film Jake Mahaffy won the Grand Jury Award for best "feature film" at the South By Southwest Film Festival held recently in Austin. The movie, Wellness, follows the travails of a hapless pyramid-scheme salesman striving to succeed in a business that doesn't exist. (more)
Wheaton professor recognized with MacDowell fellowship
Associate Professor of English and playwright-in-residence Charlotte Meehan has been awarded a coveted Alpert/MacDowell Colony Fellowship. The prestigious organization received more than 800 applications and awarded 77 residences for the season. Professor Meehan , who also holds an artist-in-residence position with the Perishable Theater in Providence, R.I., was one of seven playwrights who received a residency for the summer. (more)
Programming for biologists
To advise biologists navigating the unfamiliar terrain of computer programming, Wheaton professors Betsy Dyer (biology) and Mark LeBlanc (computer science) have written a guidebook, Perl for Exploring DNA, that serves as an introduction to computer-aided searching of biological sequences. The book grew of the pair's connected courses and their research collaboration with students. (more)
Wheaton receives major grant from Mellon
A select group of twelve English majors from all over the nation will learn what it takes to do doctoral work in English through a four-week summer program at Wheaton, starting in June 2008. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the college a grant of more than $400,000 to establish the Summer Institute in Literary and Cultural Studies. (more)