Graduating senior Anne Bahr was awarded a French Government Teaching Assistantship which will provide her the opportunity to teach English as a foreign language through the Academie de Dijon next year.

Graduating senior Cara Strachan wins French Government Teaching Assistantship that will allow her to spend next year teaching English to elementary level students in Provence.

Two Wheaton faculty members are heading to Africa in June to participate in faculty development seminars sponsored by the Council for International Educational Exchange (CIEE). The seminars, supported with funds through the Wheaton Office of the Provost, will help the professors enrich their classroom curriculum.

Giving the keynote address at Wheaton College's 173rd Commencement held on May 17, 2008, Wheaton alumna Katharine T. Bartlett marveled at the dramatic social, technological and scientific advances that have occurred over the past 40 years since she graduated in 1968, and called attention to how far we still have to go.

What's in a name? For Dean of Students Sue Alexander, who has to pronounce all of the student names at Commencement and get them right, everything. What's the secret to her success?

Wheaton English professor and writer-in-residence Sue Standing will teach literature and poetry writing and work on a series of poems in Toulouse, France, this fall as a Fulbright Scholar.

The children and teachers of the Elisabeth W. Amen Nursery School worked together to create a vegetable garden on the school grounds this spring. President Crutcher paid a visit to help with the digging.

For years, the hidden history of the Abenaki peoples of the northeastern United States and Canada has captivated Wheaton College senior Ashley Smith, who has been researching the historical and contemporary lives and cultures of this Native American group. Now she gets to dig deeper. The Madison, Maine resident has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in Canada on the Abenaki.