Wheaton has won a grant of $99,500 from the Teagle Foundation to expand the reach of quantitative analysis (QA) in the college’s multidisciplinary curriculum. A Wheaton working group will develop a variety of initiatives to encourage faculty members to incorporate new quantitative dimensions into their teaching and help students strengthen their QA skills and understanding.
Archive for 2005
Wheaton to explore uses of quantitative analysis across the curriculum
December 13, 2005Junior wins Fulbright-Hays award for study abroad
December 6, 2005NORTON–Wheaton College junior Stanley Ellicott, a double major in economics and Russian language and literature from Avon, Maine, won a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship to fund his spring semester study in Russia.
PATRICIA KING '63 TO JOIN HARVARD CORPORATION
December 5, 2005Patricia A. King ’63, Wheaton College trustee and Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Medicine, Ethics and Public Policy at Georgetown Law Center, has been elected as the first female African American member of the Harvard Corporation, the university announced Dec. 4.
Junior wins Wheaton's first Gilman Scholarship
December 1, 2005NORTON–Wheaton psychology major Valerie Tobia, a junior from Falmouth, Mass., became the college’s first winner of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship late last month.
Sen. Ted Kennedy receives Otis Social Justice Award
November 28, 2005NORTON–In an address at Wheaton College today, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) criticized political leaders in Massachusetts and Washington for not working hard enough to improve access to education and healthcare and to eradicate poverty and injustice.
Wheaton Greenhouse hosts December open house
November 28, 2005Wheaton’s Greenhouse will host an open house and plant re-potting clinic on Friday, Dec. 9, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to receive Otis Social Justice Award
November 20, 2005U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass. ) has graciously agreed to accept the Otis Social Justice Award. He will be visiting campus on Monday, Nov. 28 and the award will be presented to him in Cole Memorial Chapel at noon.
SGA President Alex Dewar wins Rhodes Scholarship
November 19, 2005NORTON, Mass. -Alexander K. Dewar, a senior who is studying political science and plans to pursue a career in climate change policy, was on Saturday named Wheaton’s third Rhodes Scholar in five years.
Wheaton to host first Northeast regional retreat of undergraduate student think-tank
November 7, 2005The Wheaton College chapter of the Roosevelt Institution, the nation’s first student-run think tank, will host the organization’s first Northeast Regional Retreat this weekend (Nov.
Wheaton fourth nationally among Fulbright-winning colleges
November 1, 2005The Institute for International Education announced this week that Wheaton College tied for fourth place among American undergraduate institutions in Fulbright Awards won last year.
