Wheaton College, which earned its highest ranking in the NCAA Division III Sears Directors' Cup championships last year, is currently ranked in a tie for 37th overall and fifth best in New England following the fall competition.

The Wheaton College men's and women's soccer teams finished their most successful seasons in school history. Along with that team success came many individual accolades, including All-America, All-New England, All-Conference and Coach-of-the-Year honors.

David E. Powell, Professor of Russian Studies at Wheaton, and Hadrien J. Fraissinet, a Wheaton senior, have co-authored an op-ed on Russia's role in the war on terrorism and U.S. foreign policy.

Diane Ravitch, a former assistant U. S. secretary of education, will share her views on education reform at Wheaton on Monday, Oct. 22.

Wheaton's genomics research group is poised to help other colleges launch genomics studies of their own. The college has been awarded a grant of nearly $25,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of interdisciplinary collaborations in biology and computer science.

The Wheaton Consort, an early music ensemble, will present a concert in the Woolley Room of Mary Lyon Hall at Wheaton College on Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 7:30 p.m.

Wheaton will host two evening performances of South India music and dance later this month.

To all concerned parents and friends of Wheaton: With the attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington we are in the midst of an unprecedented national tragedy. Please know that the community is supporting those who have reason to be concerned for relatives and friends who may be affected by these terrible and unprecedented attacks.

As fall approaches, come and revisit the lushness of summer at Wheaton's greenhouse. Take a tour of the exotic and tropical greenery, wander through the cacti and succulents and don't miss the interesting selection of plants for sale.

Wheaton College president Dale Rogers Marshall announced today that the private liberal arts college would release data on its students' college experience to the public as part of an attempt to give high school students and their parents a more complete picture of the institution than offered by the popular America's Best Colleges ranking published by US News and World Report

While construction crews finish preparations on the new Mars Arts and Humanities building, Wheaton students are beginning their exodus back to campus. Fall athletes and student leaders will arrive in Norton by August 20, with 490 first year students following for orientation on September 1.

The 490 students enrolled as first-year students this fall at Wheaton will finish their orientation to college life on Tuesday, September 4 by working as volunteers for municipal and non-profit organizations in Norton, Taunton, Mansfield, Attleboro, Plainville, Brockton, Providence and elsewhere.

Wheaton has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to fund the development of new courses with connections to the local community.

Cheryl Mrozowski, fourteen-year director of the Wheaton Dance Company, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Theatre at Wheaton. In addition to her work with the dance company, Professor Mrozowski will teach ballet and modern jazz for academic credit and will join the theatre department in team-teaching Movement and Dance for the Theatre.

Wheaton's proximity to Boston and the college's Ivy League looks make it a natural stand-in when the gates of Harvard Yard won't open to Hollywood filmmakers

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- Sears, Roebuck and Co. and the National Association of Collegiate Directors of America (NACDA) have announced that Wheaton College finished 22nd overall in the prestigious Sears Directors' Cup in NCAA Division III competition for the 2000-01 academic year.

After the first day of competion at the 2001 NCAA national championship in track and field, the Wheaton women's track team has already gained two more All Americans

Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman warned the 350 members of Wheaton College's Class of 2001 to be wary of the 'globalization lifestyle' and to embrace the fundamental virtues, including conservation.

Former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson Says Bush Energy Plan Shortchanges Conservation

In the 2000-2001 academic year, Wheaton students won seven prestigious national awards: a Rhodes, British Marshall, Truman and four Fulbright scholarships.

Professor of Psychology David Wulff is among the small but growing number of scientists examining the connections between brain activity and experience of the divine, a discipline becoming known as neurotheology--and featured on the May 7 cover of Newsweek magazine.

Arnulfo De La Cruz '00 has been awarded a highly competitive Fulbright Bi-national Business Grant to study and work in Mexico. He is the sixth Wheaton scholar to win a Fulbright this year.

Wheaton will be hosting the NEWMAC Conference baseball and softball championships this weekend (April 28-29).

David Giuliani, a Wheaton sophomore, has been awarded a highly competitive Morris K. Udall scholarship to support his undergraduate studies in environmental science.

Susan Habas, a Wheaton senior majoring in biochemistry, has been awarded a highly competitive New Zealand Fulbright scholarship for chemistry research next year.

Wheaton Chamber Orchestra plays spring concert. The Wheaton Chamber Orchestra will play its annual spring concert on Friday, May 4 at 7:30 p. m. in Cole Memorial Chapel.

The Boston Globe calls Wheaton's leap to co-education 'a winning gamble'.

Odyssey, Wheaton's senior studio art major exhibition, is set to open in Watson Gallery in Watson Fine Arts Center on Wednesday, April 18 at 7 p. m.

The Epic Brass Summer Institute, hosted by Earl Raney and the Epic Brass Quintet, will be held at Wheaton College on Tuesday, June 26th through Friday, June 29, 2001.

On Friday, April 20 at 8:00 pm, Worldfest at Wheaton will host performances Tomie Hahn, accomplished Japanese dancer and shakuhachi (flute) performer, and Masayo Ishigure, master of the stringed instruments koto and shamisen.

Wheaton sophomore Simon Leen won the top honors at the 42nd Annual Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament and Conference, held last week in Boise, Idaho.

Andrea Christoforou, a Wheaton College senior majoring in pre-med and mathematics, has been awarded a highly competitive Great Britain Fulbright scholarship to study bioinformatics at the University of Manchester next year.

Prof. Matthew Allen of Wheaton College has been awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture and conduct research in Ireland.

Thomas L. Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times and author of the provocative bestseller, The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, will address the Class of 2001 at Wheaton's 166th commencement on Saturday, May 19 at 10 a.

The Wheaton College athletic programs are ranked eighth through the first set of winter standings for the sixth annual Sears Directors' Cup, presented annually by Sears Roebuck and Co.

Wheaton junior Fred Marcks is one of 70 college students in the nation to win the Truman Scholarship in public service, announced The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation today.

Wheaton College brings together the music of South India and Brasil.

Writer, historian, activist and playwright Howard Zinn will be this year's recipient of Wheaton's Otis Social Justice Award. Zinn will be on campus to receive the award and to participate in the college's annual Otis Social Justice Symposium on Tuesday, March 27.

Wheaton College brings togetherthe sounds of South India and Brasil in a Worldfest concert on March 23.

Laura Steele, a Wheaton College senior majoring in French and psychology, has been awarded a French Government Teaching Assistantship through the Fulbright program.

As a prelude to their upcoming tour of Italy, the Wheaton Chorale will present their Italy Send-Off Concert on Sunday, February 25. Under the direction of Tim Harbold, the Chorale will perform a varied program including Renaissance works, songs celebrating Wheaton's heritage, and songs of the American landscape, including Shaker songs and spirituals.

Wheaton College celebrates Black History Month with a series of speakers, artists, musicians and discussions. The following events are open to the public.

[NORTON, Mass. ] -- The director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Anne Hawley, visits Wheaton College Thursday, Feb. 8 as part of the Wheaton Distinguished Fellows Program.

While New England was buried in snow and ice, Wheaton senior Jennifer Rolfs was enjoying warm weather while conducting research in Bali. Rolfs was awarded a Davis International Fellowship from the college to spend the month of January completing research for her senior honors thesis in anthropology.

Wheaton College's Watson Gallery will open the 2001 exhibition schedule on February 1 with a one-man show by artist William Hutson. The show, Tactile Images: Paintings and Painted Objects, is co-sponsored by Wheaton's Black History Month Committee and will run through February 29, 2001.

Beginning in February, Wheaton College continues the 2000-2001 lecture series in marine conservation biology. Funded by the NOAA SeaGrant College Program, the series brings a total of six scientists to Wheaton to present current research in conservation biology.

[NORTON, Mass. ] -- The leaders of two of Boston's most prominent cultural institutions and the former head of one of the city's best known management consulting firms have been named Wheaton Distinguished Fellows for 2001.

Wheaton students won both the Marshall and Rhodes scholarships last month, making the college one of the few in the country to win both prestigious scholarships in the same year.