CLEVELAND, OH – Wheaton College completed the fall season ranked 17th in the NCAA Division III United States Sports Academy Directors’ Cup standings, as the Lyons posted their second-highest ranking in the 10th year of the program.

Jane Ruby Professor of English Sue Standing’s first short story won a Pushcart Prize for 2004.

NORTON, Mass. -The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has named Associate Professor Paula Krebs, English Department chair, as the next editor of Academe, the organization’s bimonthly magazine of issues in higher education.

An astronomer involved in a NASA project to examine the make-up of a passing comet will talk about her work during a public lecture at Wheaton College on Thursday, Oct.

Bestselling author Molly Ivins will receive the 2004 Otis Social Justice Award at Wheaton College on Wednesday, Nov. 10, and then reflect on the outcome of the presidential election in a public lecture.

Among baccalaureate colleges, Wheaton is among the top 25 producers of Fulbright student scholars for 2004-2005, according to a special feature published in the Chronicle of Higher Education today.

Pulitzer-winning journalists Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss, will lecture as part of the Wheaton College Otis Social Justice Symposium on Human Rights and War.

The Wheaton Non-violent Coordinating Committee will present a lecture by political cartoonist, David Rees, the first in a series of talks on ‘Human Rights and War.

While it may feel quieter in Norton without Wheaton’s college students in town, campus is bustling with a full program of summer camps and conferences. For more information about participating in Wheaton’s summer camps, please contact the Office of Events and Conferences at 508-286-3789.