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.