Sunila Thomas-George has been named a commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination by Gov. Deval Patrick.

Ashley Mott '08 and Caitlin O'Connor '08 spent the summer of 2007 helping to expand an established after-school program in Tanzania. Now they are helping to sustain it by selling greeting cards made from the Tanzanian children's artwork.

The Sundance Film Festival has selected one of Wheaton film professor Jake Mahaffy's most recent short films for screening at the international festival, which starts in mid-January.
The film, Motion Studies: Inertia is one of 83 short films selected from more than 5,000 works submitted by U.S. and international filmmakers hoping to have their work shown [...]

Starlight and the new year will be among the themes as the Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers present their annual holiday vespers concert on Sunday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m.

The Wheaton College greenhouses will hold an open house on Friday, Dec. 7 from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. During the open house, visitors are free to wander around the greenhouses at their leisure and may also bring plants in need of repotting.

Joel C. Relihan, professor of classics, has produced a new translation of Apuleius's Latin classic, The Golden Ass (Or, A Book of Changes). The project, which took more than a year, resulted in a version of the work that is not only learned but also readable and fun.

The internationally acclaimed Italian novelist Dacia Maraini will talk about her life and work in a public lecture at Wheaton on Thursday, Nov. 15.

The Wheaton Distinguished Fellows program will bring the managing director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mark Volpe, to visit campus on Tuesday, Nov. 13, to talk with students about careers in arts management and to discuss the renowned organization?s diversity initaitives.

William Allen '09 feels a particular affinity for Harriet Wilson, an indentured servant who lived in the town of Milford, N. H. , in the mid-1800s.

Kim Miller, assistant professor of women's studies and art history, received the 2007 Aluka Award for Innovative Teaching. Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative that seeks to connect resources and scholars from around the world with Africa.

In partnership with a grassroots organization in the Philippines, four Wheaton students are working to establish a computer clinic for rural schoolchildren in that Southeast Asian country.

The Fulbright Program recently announced the complete list of colleges and universities that produced the most 2007-2008 U. S. Fulbright Fellows. The success of the top producing institutions was highlighted in the October 26 printed edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Accomplished sculptor and performance artist, Janine Antoni, will give a lecture regarding her career and inspiration on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, in Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts at 7 p.m.

The extraordinary Orchid Ensemble will perform at Wheaton on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 in the Cole Memorial Chapel at 7:30 p.m.

The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) announced that it has launched a new conference Web site, www.newmacsports.com.

The Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning and the Latino Student Association have organized a series of social, musical and political events to enrich the celebration of Latino Heritage Month on the Wheaton campus this October.

Sean O'Se, one of Ireland's great tenors, will perform in concert at Cole Memorial Chapel on Saturday, September 29.

Wheaton has joined a nationwide initiative that launches today to provide college-bound students and their parents with concise, Web-based consumer-friendly information on individual private colleges and universities.

Andries van Dam, professor of computer science at Brown University, will give a lecture entitled When is the pen mightier than the keyboard? on Wednesday, September 26 at 5:30 p.m.

Ronald Richard, president and CEO of The Cleveland Foundation, will receive the Otis Social Justice Award on Thursday, October 18 at 7:30 p. m. in the Hindle Auditorium.

Wheaton welcomed 440 new students to campus in August. Nearly 4,000 high school students applied for spots in the Class of 2011--the most applications Wheaton has ever received--and only 39 percent were offered admission.

The Wheaton College greenhouses are open for tours and repotting clinics four times each academic year. The next open house is scheduled for Monday, October 8, 2007, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

One recent Saturday morning 100 first-year Wheaton students spread out to do everything from washing walls and flipping mattresses to cleaning ovens and raking courtyards for residents who welcomed the extra hands. The effort was all a part of the Season of Service sponsored by the Office of Spirituality, Service and Social Responsibility. The work began this month and will continue into October. Students will work with a dozen social service and educational organizations at 25 local sites.

The rich history of Wheaton, and the ways in which the institution's past informs its present, served as the theme for the 173rd Opening Convocation ceremony held in Cole Memorial Chapel on Wednesday, Aug.

More than 400 first-year Wheaton College students will spend September and October engaged in community service projects in Norton, Attleboro, Taunton and Boston.

The Wheaton College Department of Athletics has announced a partnership with Norton Community Television and student-run campus radio station WCCS-FM 96. 5 to broadcast a number of the school's athletic events over the course of the academic year.

Wheaton welcomed 440 new students to campus in August. Nearly 4,000 high school students had applied for spots in the Class of 2011, the most applications Wheaton has ever received, and only 39 percent were offered admission.

Friends and supporters of Wheaton College contributed a record-setting $34.7 million in gifts and pledges during 2006-2007, while hundreds of volunteers invested their time and talent in service to the college.

In spite of our national obsession with food and diet, few of us truly think about the food on our plates, and how it got there. This summer, Wheaton's incoming freshmen are thinking about just that, as they tackle their summer reading assignment, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan.

Images from the Cassini space probe reveal huge geysers spewing from the southern polar region of one of Saturn's moons generating excitement in the world of planetary science .

Wheaton has been awarded two grants totaling $450,000 to support key programs of the college. The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation has granted the college $200,000 to sustain the Office of Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility (SSSR), and the Mars Foundation has awarded a $250,000 grant to increase the summer research opportunities available through the Mars Faculty/Student Research Fellowships Program.

For the seventh straight time, Wheaton College completed an academic year ranked among the top 50 NCAA Division III institutions in the final United States Sports Academy (USSA) Directors' Cup standings.

The college will host a public forum on Wednesday, June 13, sponsored by state Sen. James Timilty and the Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government.

At Honors Convocation, chemistry professor Herb Ellison emphasized the importance of science education for all students.

Art and nature intertwine in the sculpture of Noah Mithoefer Buehner.

President Ronald A. Crutcher played Vivaldi's Concerto in G minor with the Boston Classical Orchestra (BCO) at Faneuil Hall.

Meghan Smith '09 recently participated in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) national championship show.

The Wheaton Board of Trustees voted unanimously to divest from its endowment holdings any direct investments in companies identified as conducting business in the Sudan.

Giving the keynote address at Wheaton College's 172nd Commencement held on May 19, 2007, pioneering educator Freeman Hrabowski III told the 370 members of the Class of 2007 that education can equalize opportunities, and he urged them to realize their potential as leaders.

The struggle for gender equality in the workplace is not over and today's college students graduates must carry the fight forward, said noted attorney Kathleen O'Donnell, who received an honorary degree during the college's 172nd Commencement on Saturday, May 19, 2007.

Laura Corkery '07, a French Studies and International Relations major from North Marshfield, Mass., has won a French Teaching Assistantship through the Fulbright program. She will teach English next year in the university town of Rennes, France.

Lauren Cipollone '08, a German major from East Burke, Vermont, has been selected to participate in a weeklong summer seminar--the Graduate School Experience--at the University of Minnesota for academically outstanding students considering graduate work in German studies.

Wheaton College senior Ashley Young, a biology major from Westford, Mass., has been awarded a research Fulbright to study the effect of an invasive insect and animal on the lives of indigenous people in Canada.

The Department of Athletics honored five student athletes at its annual awards ceremony on May 1.

Wheaton alumna Courtney McPhail, a 2005 graduate from New York, N. Y., who majored in German and minored in studio art, will teach English in Germany as a 2007 Fulbright Scholar.

Wheaton graduate Stefan Sirucek '06, a German major and filmmaker from Wellfleet, Mass., has won a Fulbright Fellowship to teach English in Germany, where he will apply his knowledge of filmmaking and theater in the classroom.

Wheaton junior Ashley Smith of Madison, Maine, has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship to continue studying the effects of oppression on Native American identity in the Northeast.

NORTON-Wheaton alumna Janet Turkovich '05, of Westford, Mass. , has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach high school students English as a Foreign Language in Hamburg, Germany.

A patchwork quilt made by Wheaton students to inspire, encourage and show solidarity with local HIV positive women of color is visiting a variety of local organizations this month.

Wheaton College students, staff and faculty recently gathered in Cole Chapel during a memorial service for the 32 people murdered at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. During the service, Wheaton Dean of Students Sue A. Alexander reflected on the tragedy in a moving speech.

Wheaton moved up 29 spots from the fall to complete the 2006-07 winter season 38th in the NCAA Division III United States Sports Academy Directors' Cup standings.

President's message to the campus community in response to the tragedy at Virginia Tech.

[NORTON]--Residents of Norton and neighboring communities are invited to visit campus and enjoy the third annual Wheaton College Community Day, on Sunday, April 29, 2007.

Wheaton graduate Rose Maizner '06, a psychology major from Holladay, Utah, has won a Fulbright Fellowship to Argentina that will allow her to study how culture influences the immigration and adjustment of Muslim women.

Four Wheaton students won five prizes at the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition, Rhode Island division. Our six participants were Caitlin Fahey '07, soprano, Alexander Grover '09, baritone, Christopher MacDonald '10, countertenor, Elizabeth McKay '08, mezzo-soprano, Melissa Roby '07, mezzo-soprano, and Jordan Trundy '10, baritone, on Saturday, March 31.

NORTON, MA--The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) will visit Wheaton this week as part of its tour of four Division III New England campuses. The NCAA will introduce the Wheaton campus to readers of its Double-A Zone blog on April 11.

NORTON--Wheaton senior Shanita Gopie, an English major from Westbury, New York, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach English in Hong Kong. For a year, Gopie will work at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, a public university-level school dedicated to the preparation and professional development of teachers.

A new study by Associate Professor of Geology Geoffrey Collins and his research partner suggests that there is a sea of liquid water trapped beneath the ice on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons. Their paper on the research will be published by the planetary science journal Icarus.

NORTON--Members of the Wheaton community, led by the College Democrats and the Progressive Activists Coalition, folded 3,218 paper cranes--one for every U.S. soldier killed in the Iraq War--to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of that country on March 19, 2003.

Three Wheaton students have won two $10,000 grants to promote world peace through projects to be undertaken this summer through the Kathryn Waserman Davis 100 Projects for Peace initiative.

NORTON--Sarata Toriola '07, an English major and campus leader from the Bronx, New York, has won a Fulbright Scholarship for 2008. She will travel to South Korea to teach English and conduct research on Korean women writers.

In an impressive display of Wheaton's commitment to experiential learning, two students recently had the chance to give gallery talks at Boston's venerable and prestigious Museum of Fine Arts, accepting an invitation extended to them by one of the museum's top curators.

NORTON--Wheaton senior Laura Burr, a psychology major and elementary education minor from South Glastonbury, Conn., has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach English in Taiwan.

Senior Laura Tschop plans to spend next year looking for answers to helping immigrant schoolchildren in the U. S. learn English and perform well on standardized tests in South Korean classrooms.

Senior Derron J. R. Wallace of Bronx, N. Y. , was named by the Thomas J. Watson Foundation as one of 50 college seniors nationwide who show unusual promise as leaders and global citizens.

The Wheaton College greenhouses are open for tours and repotting clinics four times each academic year. The next open house is scheduled for Wednesday, March 14, 2007 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. During the open house, visitors are free to wander around the greenhouses at their leisure and may also bring plants in need of repotting.

Wheaton's new Beyond Common Ground discussion series on national public policy issues continues with a dialogue on pending immigration reform legislation seen from the political Right, Left and Center.

Wheaton President Ronald Crutcher has been invited to participate in a national summit on reform in higher education with U. S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.

Six Wheaton students share their stories of immigrating to the U.S.

The new exhibit at the Beard and Weil galleries puts fashion in a whole new light. Fashion Statements: The Fine Art of Faux Apparel presents clothing as a sculptural form and subject.

Wheaton College is proud to present Yanvalou Drum & Dance Ensemble from Wellesley College on Wednesday, February 25 at 7:30 p. m. in the Ellison Dance/Aerobics Studio in Balfour Hood.

The American Council on Education (ACE) has elected President Ronald Crutcher to serve on the organization's board of directors. He began his three-year term on the association's board following its annual meeting in February.

Just a few months before they graduate, a group of Wheaton seniors are getting the chance to test drive their professional skills this February as part of a new mini-course called 'Beyond the Bubble: Meet, Eat and Dress for Success.'

The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric highlights 85 Broads, the network begun by Wheaton alumna Janet Hanson '74 to connect and empower women in business as well as women graduate and undergraduate students from the world's leading colleges and universities.

The Wheaton Athletic Mentors (WAMs), a leadership group of student-athletes from each of the college's 21 varsity sports programs, will host the third annual Big Event to promote sobriety among college students and to contribute to the local community.

Wheaton will host a non-denominational community-wide service for peace around the world on Monday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 p. m. in Cole Memorial Chapel.

Freeman Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and a leading advocate for high-achieving minority students in science, will address the Class of 2007 at Wheaton's 172nd Commencement on May 19, 2007.

Although out of the daily media, New Orleans and its surrounding areas continue to recover and rebuild after the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina. Wheaton students and staff witnessed the destruction first-hand last week during a volunteer mission to help rebuild communities near New Orleans.

PBS recently called on Wheaton senior Ted Nesi '07 to serve as a spokesperson for his generation.

Translating Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy is a feat unto itself, but it was just a start for Joel C. Relihan, professor of classics and chair of the department of classics.