Wheaton junior Megan Shea is spending her winter break in Ecuador, funded by the Davis International Fellowship. Shea is working to help restore the community of Bahia de Caraquez in the aftermath of natural disasters.

Wheaton senior Chad Taylor is spending his winter break at the Mestizo-Maya village of San Victor in Belize, funded by the Davis International Fellowship program.

Wheaton senior Kyla Hobbie-Welch is spending her winter break teaching orphaned children in Esperanza, Dominican Republic, funded by the Davis International Fellowship program.

Students and faculty in Wheaton's ''Ponds to Particles'' course have received the prestigious ''Green Seal,'' awarded by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Students and faculty in Wheaton's Ponds to Particles course have received the prestigious Green Seal, awarded by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Holcombe M. Austin, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, died in Colorado on Wednesday, January 8. Professor Austin was an extraordinary and inspirational member of the Wheaton community for 68 years.

World renowned cancer researcher Judah Folkman, M. D. , whose discoveries about how tumors grow has opened an exciting new area of study and clinical treatment, will speak with students on Monday, Feb. 3, as a Wheaton Distinguished Fellow.

Wheaton is among the top 15 percent of colleges and universities nationwide on four of five key components of quality in undergraduate education, according to results from the 2002 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).

Wheaton honors Black History month with a variety of events celebrating black history and culture.

The Wheaton Dance Company is proud to present Eclipse on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 27, 28 and March 1 at 8:00 p. m. in the Weber Theatre of Watson Fine Arts.

Forget about those huge, gray piles of snow, and spend a few minutes away from winter in a lush, green tropical rain forest! The Wheaton greenhouse will host the first of two spring open houses and plant re-potting clinics on Wednesday, March 19.

Wheaton College is proud to present A Festival of New Plays, Tuesday, March 4 - Saturday March 8 at 7:30 p. m. in the Kresge Experimental Theatre in Watson Fine Arts.

Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart will deliver a lecture this spring as part of the continuing Jane E. Ruby Lecture Series at Wheaton. The lecture will be held on Thursday, April 3 in Cole Memorial Chapel at 7:30 p.m.

Methyl mercury, a potent neurotoxin, can exist in dangerously high concentrations in Massachusetts coastal and inland waters, high enough to pose health threats to anyone consuming fish from those areas. A Wheaton chemistry professor has been awarded two grants to study the production of methyl mercury in coastal marine sediments.

As part of Wheaton's Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artist Program, well-known New York playwright Tina Howe will give a public lecture, The Thrill and Danger of Writing for the Theater, on Tuesday, March 25.

As part of Wheaton's Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artist Program, well-known New York playwright Tina Howe will give a public lecture, ''The Thrill and Danger of Writing for the Theater,'' on Tuesday, March 25.

[NORTON, Mass. ] -- Wheaton College President Dale Rogers Marshall has announced that she will resign on June 30, 2004, after leading the college for 12 years.

[NORTON, Mass. ] - If and when the U. S. launches its long-anticipated strike on Iraq, Wheaton professors are prepared to act. The Wheaton faculty voted on Friday to call a one-day moratorium on classes as usual, in the event of war.

Exploring the centuries-old struggle over Jerusalem's sacred spaces from a femeinist perspective will be the topic of this year's Martin Lecture on Monday, March 24, to be delivered by Bonna Devora Haberman.

NORTON, Mass., March 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- With the U. S. strike on Iraq underway, Wheaton professors are calling a one-day moratorium on ''classes as usual'' to help students understand the conflict and its aftermath.

Wheaton proudly presents a coffee house style performance of Irish and Appalachian traditional fiddle-guitar music featuring Mick Daly from Cork, Ireland, guitar, banjo and voice and Anna Falkenau from Wesleyan, Connecticut, fiddle and voice on Thursday, March 27 at 7:30 p.

From the Top, the hit public radio program that NBC Today calls classy reality programming comes to Wheaton on April 10 to record a show before a live audience. This program, in Wheaton's Weber Theatre, is being recorded for broadcast, and will feature talented and diverse group of young musicians from Massachusetts, Illinois, California and Alabama.

Wheaton is proud to present Evelyn Danzig Haas Œ39 Visiting Artist Mick Moloney and guests who will perform in Cole Memorial Chapel on Sunday, March 30 at 7:30 p.m.

CLEVELAND, OH - Wheaton College, which earned its highest ranking in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Directors' Cup Division III standings two years ago, is ranked 29th overall and fifth in New England through the final standings of the winter competition.

From the Top, the hit public radio program that NBC's 'Today' calls 'classy reality programming' comes to Wheaton to record a show before a live audience.

Wheaton junior Adar Cohen is one of 76 U.S. college students to win the Truman Scholarship in public service, announced Madeleine K. Albright, president of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.

Songs of War, Songs of Peace will be performed twice on Sunday, April 27, by the combined choirs of Wheaton College and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, under the direction of Tim Harbold.

The Department of Theatre Studies and Dance presents Tartuffe, the French master's classic comedy about a pseudo holy man on the make in an upper middle class household on April 17, 18 & 19 and 24, 25 & 26 at 7:30 p.m.

David Levering Lewis, the double Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of historian W. E. B. Du Bois, will address the Class of 2003 at Wheaton's 168th commencement on May 17, 2003.

Four Wheaton students have won competitive national awards this spring, including two Fulbright Scholarships, a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, and a Morris K. Udall Scholarship.

Jared Duval '05 of Bethel, Vermont, has won a Morris K. Udall Scholarship, awarded annually to outstanding sophomores and juniors who are studying the natural environment and related fields.

Wheaton chemistry major Tom Morgan '04 received an award for 'best student poster' at the April 2003 annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), North Atlantic Chapter, in Mystic, Connecticut.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Levering Lewis challenged the 340 members of Wheaton College's Class of 2003 to 'make history come out the right way' after attacking the rise of the radical right in American culture and accusing the Bush Administration of an assault on democracy.

ORLANDO, FL--The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) has announced that Wheaton College finished 21st overall in the prestigious NACDA Directors' Cup in NCAA Division III competition for the 2002-03 academic year.

Wheaton College President Dale Rogers Marshall today expressed her strong support for the Supreme Court's decision that colleges can take race into account as one of many factors in admissions decisions.

The Merck Company Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have jointly awarded Wheaton $60,000 to support interdisciplinary research on vernal pools with students in chemistry and biology during the next three summers.

[NORTON, Mass. ] - Laura Berman, a 2003 Wheaton graduate, is the recipient of a Fulbright award for research on economic development in Peru. Berman joins several of her college peers in receiving prestigious academic awards--Wheaton students earned six Fulbright awards and one Truman scholarship this year.

Laura Berman, a 2003 Wheaton graduate, is the recipient of a Fulbright award for research on economic development in Peru. Berman will spend a year researching and analyzing the effects of energy privatization on the Peruvian economy as an associate of the Group for the Analysis of Development, a private research center in Lima.

Ailey® II, the dynamic young touring ensemble created by Alvin Ailey in 1974 to showcase the talents of young dancers, will conduct master classes at Wheaton in September, capping off their visit with a performance on Saturday, September 20. The ensemble's visit is part of Wheaton's new initiative, the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program & Arts in the City.

Wheaton professor and political anthropologist Robert D. Albro is one of six U.S. scholars to win a Library of Congress Fellowship in International Studies this year.

What do golf maven Tiger Woods, singer Jimmy Buffet, men in grass skirts with rubber sharks on their heads and 100,000 golf fans have in common?

Wheaton's Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy Xuesheng Chen has been awarded a $30,000 grant through the National Science Foundation's Small Business Technology Transfer program.

[NORTON, September 29, 2003]Wheaton College is proud to present celebrated pianist and noted Beethoven scholar, Victor Rosenbaum on Wednesday, October 8, 2003 at 7:30 p. m. in Cole Memorial Chapel.

As politicians on both sides of the aisle debate the $87 billion spending request for military and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, they must not forget the families of deployed soldiers, sailors, and airmen, both active duty and reserve, Wheaton College historian Anni Baker writes in an op-ed published by the Chicago Tribune.

In separate shows, two of Wheatons alumna-Squidge Liljeblad Davis 65 and Judith Nulty 66 exhibit their work in the Beard & Weil Galleries from October 16 through November 14.

Mary Saunders, teacher of musical theatre, vocalist, and an Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artist performs for the Wheaton campus on October 17 at 7:30 in the Weber Theatre.

National security, military intervention and the spread of weapons of mass destruction--all issues likely to remain front and center for the 2004 presidential election--will be on the agenda Monday, October 20, for an American foreign policy debate at Wheaton.

The Evelyn Danzig Haas 39 Visiting Artist Program, Worldfest at Wheaton and the Department of Music is proud to present Los Pleneros Del Coco with Miguel Almestica on Thursday, October 30 at 9:00 p.m.

The Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artist Program is proud to present the Beethoven Violin Sonatas in a series of four recitals featuring Irina Muresanu, violin and Professor Ann Sears, piano.

Tomie Hahn, performance artist, ethnologist and an Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artist presents an evening of Japanese dance and music at Wheaton College on Wednesday November 12 at 7:30 p. m.

The Department of Theatre Studies and Dance is proud to present Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, Part One: Millenium Approaches on November 13, 14 and 15, 20, 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.m.

Auditions for the musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF will be held on Friday, November 21 in Weber Theatre.

One of India's most prominent journalists will discuss South Asia's view of terrorism in the first lecture of the new Colloquium Series on Globalization and Culture, which will be held on Thursday, Nov.

Wheaton's Greenhouse will a late fall open houses and plant re-potting clinics on Wednesday, Dec. 10. from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. and 6:30 to 8 p. m.

Wheaton's Greenhouse will host late fall open houses and plant repotting clinics on Wednesday, Dec. 10. , from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. and 6:30 to 8 p. m. Horticulturalist and greenhouse caretaker Jane Young will start visitors on a self-guided tour of the facility.

Wheaton's Greenhouse will a late fall open houses and plant re-potting clinics on Wednesday, Dec. 10. from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. and 6:30 to 8 p. m.

Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will address the Class of 2004 at Wheaton's 169th commencement on May 21, 2004.

Holiday cheer will be on the program as the Wheaton College Chorale and Chamber Singers present their annual Holiday Vespers, midst the greens and candlelight of Wheaton's Cole Memorial Chapel.

The Great Woods Chamber Orchestra begins its second season under the baton of its dynamic conductor, Earl Raney, at Wheaton College's intimate Cole Chapel on Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:30 p.m.

With the weather outside frightful, Holiday Vespers will be all the more delightful.

The Hollywood script might have called for Wellesley women, but it was all Wheaton when the cameras rolled last December on the set of Mona Lisa Smile, the Julia Roberts film set for release on Dec. 19.

CLEVELAND, OH--Wheaton College has continued to improve year after year in the NCAA Division III United States Sports Academy Directors' Cup standings and the fall of 2003 was no different, as the Lyons have garnered their highest ranking in the eight-year history of the program.