Wheaton has received a grant from the George I. Alden Trust to fund a variety of science equipment priorities. The $75,000 grant supports curricular plans to make the sciences more central to the experience of every Wheaton student and gives Wheaton science faculty tools to illustrate critical connections between the sciences and other disciplines.

Brenda Wyss, associate professor of economics at Wheaton, has been awarded a lecturing and research Fulbright to Jamaica for the spring 2003 semester. Wyss, a political and feminist economist, studies the intersections of gender, family studies and economics, with a particular focus on Jamaica and the Caribbean.

Wheaton graduate Anastasia Pano '02 of Worcester, Mass., was the first recipient of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Phyllis A. Brauner Memorial Book Prize Undergraduate Research Award.

When most people plan a trip to Peru, they are interested in seeing Machu Picchu, or perhaps the mysterious Nazca Lines, the origins of which are still unknown. But Wheaton student Robyn Gravel '04 of Northfield, Conn., wanted to do more.

It's official: back to school season is here. Wheaton athletes and student leaders arrive in Norton this week, with 420 first year students arriving for orientation on August 31.