A group of Wheaton students combined their passion for cooking with their dedication to community service, serving lunch to 143 people at a Brockton soup kitchen.

Ancient sculpture head in Wheaton's permanent collection has drawn attention and is being featured in an exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Geology Matthew Evans a $109,880 grant to investigate Himalayan hot springs and their long-term effect on the global carbon cycle.

Senior Mollie Denhard is one of three Wheaton College students curating art exhibitions in the Beard and Weil Galleries this academic year. The exhibition she curated, "Collecting in the Peace Corps: Tangible Memories of the Toughest Job You'll Ever Love," opened October 18 and continues through December 11 in Beard Gallery. It focuses on objects collected by Peace Corps volunteers who served in Burkina Faso.

Lynn Dupont, principal planner and GIS manager for the New Orleans Regional Planning Commission (NORPC) will present a lecture on Monday, November 2, reflecting on the Hurricane Katrina response and recovery efforts. The lecture will be at 7 p.m. in Hindle Auditorium in the Science Center.

Rose Jackson '06 will head to Nairobi next year, having won a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarship. The $30,000 award will allow her to pursue graduate study and work to strengthen constitutional democracy in the region.

For the fifth consecutive year, Wheaton ranks among the top 10 baccalaureate colleges in the country in producing Fulbright Scholars. In 2009, six students from Wheaton won Fulbright Scholarships, placing the college in a five-way tie for ninth place.

Psychology professor Jason Reiss and his students are exploring psychology through the genre of the horror film in Reiss's First Year Seminar section, "Psychology and Horror."

Organist Carlton T. Russell will play a recital in Cole Memorial Chapel at Wheaton College on Sunday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m. The program will consist of music by Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901), a German composer considered in his lifetime the equal of Bruckner and Brahms. The event will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the college's large Casavant pipe organ.

The Wheaton College greenhouses will offer an open house and repotting clinic on Monday, Oct. 12, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Horticulturalist and greenhouse caretaker Jane Young will be available to answer questions.

The importance of protecting the environment was instilled in Ellen Perkins ’11 at a very young age. Now she will be able to pursue that interest, thanks to a $46,500 fellowship award.

Robert L. Morris, associate professor of biology, has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his continuing research on the roles of cilia in animal development.

Poet and author Gardner McFall, a Class of 1974 Wheaton graduate, will come to campus on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 5 p.m. to give a poetry reading for students. The event is open to the campus community as well as the public.

Students who have questions about the flu, including H1N1, can join an online discussion with other college students from the Boston area on Friday at 12 noon. The Q&A session is being hosted by WBUR.

The question was simple: What does the U.S. Constitution mean to you? Associate Professor of Philosophy Stephen Mathis posted the question to a group of recent graduates who have experience in political science, public policy or the law. His purpose: to provoke reflection on the United States' founding document as a way to commemorate Constitution Day (September 17).

Wheaton set to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the institution's establishment and the 200th birthday of one of founder Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton.

This summer, Wheaton's incoming freshmen are reading Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel about a young girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. What are you reading?

Jose Diaz wins Fulbright Scholarship to Spain to be an English teaching assistant.

Wheaton College welcomes Lee Burdette Williams as new dean of students.

The Wheaton annual fund has topped its $3.7 million goal for the 2008-2009 academic year. Despite the national recession, more than 5,400 people contributed a total of $3,888,255 to the college through their annual gifts.

Julia Bolt, a 2008 Wheaton College graduate from Cambridge, Mass., has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Bulgaria.

Elsy Estevez has been chosen to join Teach For America, which recruits outstanding recent college graduates and working professionals to teach in urban and rural public schools.

The NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) has awarded Assistant Professor of Physics Jason Goodman a five-year grant to investigate the flows of ice-covered oceans on Europa (one of Jupiter's moons) and other moons in the outer solar system.

Current Watson Fellow Rushyan Yen '08 is observing and working alongside batik artists in Europe and Asia and she is writing about her experiences on the blog, Paths of Molten Wax on Volatile Cloth.

President Ronald A. Crutcher made good on a bargain by joining members of the Class of 2009 in jumping into Peacock Pond--just as he promised he would do if their class reached its senior gift participation goal of 96 percent.

On a sunny Saturday morning during Wheaton College's Commencement, Governor Deval Patrick painted a bleak picture of the world. But he said the graduates are the hope for which the world is waiting.

There are no reported or suspected cases of H1N1 influenza (swine flu) on the Wheaton College campus. Wheaton's administrators continue to monitor this situation closely.

On Friday, May 1, Wheaton students flocked to Chapel Field to celebrate the last day of classes and the Hindu spring festival of Holi, indulging in a rare opportunity to throw powdered dye and water at their friends. The revelers, many of them dressed in white, were soon doused with all the colors of a spring garden.

Two students who studied literary translation last fall have had an article about a professional translator published in the winter issue of the New England Translators Association's Newsletter. The newsletter is a quarterly publication, which publishes news items and articles of interest to professional translators.

Biochemistry major Blair Rossetti '09 will conduct stem cell research as a 2009 Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands. At Utrecht University, Rossetti will join the team of Sander van den Heuvel, one of the world's premier scientists in the areas of cell division and polarity research.

While there are NO reported or suspected cases of H1N1 influenza (swine flu) on the Wheaton College campus, the recent reports about several cases in Massachusetts presents an opportunity to remind students, faculty and staff about the steps each person should take to guard against the flu and other communicable diseases.

The Wheaton Dance Company, under the direction of Assistant Professor Christianna Kavaloski, will showcase a variety of new works in its spring concert, "Synergy," on May 1, 2 and 3.

By now campus community members are aware of the swine influenza outbreak (swine flu) that is a growing national and global health threat. This message is meant to update the Wheaton community on the impact of this disease and offer other important information.

The second annual iSpeak! spoken word showcase will take place at Wheaton on Saturday, April 25, with performances by student artists and two guest slam poets.

The Wheaton College greenhouses will offer an open house and repotting clinic on Friday, May 15, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Horticulturalist and greenhouse caretaker Jane Young will be available to answer questions.

Jewelry design, encaustic painting, sculpture and film: These are just a few of the media to be showcased at the senior studio art majors' exhibition, entitled Framed, on view from April 22 to May 8 in the Beard and Weil Galleries.

Two Wheaton seniors will see the fruition of a cherished idea on Earth Day, when the college breaks ground for an apple orchard behind the Presidents' House. The festivities will begin at 2:30 p.m. on Earth Day, April 22.

For more than two years, Julia Butterfly Hill lived in the upper reaches of an ancient redwood tree to save it from destruction by a logging company. On Earth Day, April 22, Hill will visit Wheaton to talk about that experience and her continuing work as an environmental activist.

The four winners of Wheaton's third annual Concerto-Aria Competition will perform on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m., during a concert by the Great Woods Chamber Orchestra at the Weber Theatre in Watson Fine Arts.

Wheaton students recently won a series of music competitions at the Song Festival, sponsored by the Rhode Island chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (RINATS).

Senior Lily Mulcahy has won first prize in the undergraduate student paper competition at the 6th Annual Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium Student Conference for her research about a Web site for young cancer survivors.

Wheaton College President Ronald Crutcher announced that Linda Eisenmann, a scholar of higher education and an experienced academic administrator, has been named the Provost and will officially take office on July 1, 2009.

The versatile pianist Eric Eid-Reiner '11 will celebrate the release of his new CD, "On a Meadowlark Night," with a performance drawing musical inspiration from New England, Ireland, Scotland, Quebec and Cape Breton.

Rachelle DeCoste, assistant professor of mathematics, will bring her Career Mentoring Workshop for Women in math (CaMeW) to Wheaton for the second consecutive summer, thanks to a grant of $6,000 from the Mathematical Association of America/Tensor Foundation.

Chelsey Taylor '09 of Rockford, Illinois, has won a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in South Korea.

Wheaton presents an outdoor/indoor performance of Shakespeare's Macbeth April 9, 10 and 11, 16, 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Weber Theatre in Watson Fine Arts.

The impact of a warming Earth on arctic glaciers will be the subject of senior Megan O'Sadnick's research as a 2009 Fulbright Scholar.

Gabe Amo '10 is one of 60 college students in the nation to win the prestigious 2009 Truman Scholarship in public service.

Senior Scott Clark will spend his first year after graduation as a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina, teaching English at a teacher-training college and pursuing his interest in journalism for publications in the U.S. and in Latin America.

The Wheaton community will hold its second annual Focus the Nation "teach-in" on March 23-26 with a series of events designed to raise awareness about sustainability practices on campus and in our daily lives.

Members of the Gentlemen Callers will celebrate the group's 20th anniversary on Saturday, April 4 at 8 p.m., with a reunion concert in Cole Memorial Chapel that will bring back to campus more than 30 alums who were members.

Wheaton College senior Kelly Maby has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. The $28,000 award will support her research of the informal waste collection systems that have developed in Egypt, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador and Guatemala. She is the fourth Wheaton student to win a Watson in the past two years.

Professor Jake Mahaffy has been selected as one of 15 international filmmakers to participate in a prestigious workshop associated with the Cannes Film Festival.

Students recently shared their social justice work during a panel discussion on human rights.

A gallery exhibition and catalog, both created by students, trace the development of Wheaton's campus in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Professor of Mathematics William Goldbloom Bloch has won an honorable mention from the 2008 PROSE Awards for his book, The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel.

The work of nationally renowned artist Dorothea Rockburne will be featured in Dorothea Rockburne: The Astronomy Drawings in the Beard and Weil Galleries from Wednesday, March 18 through Friday, April 16.

The Wheaton greenhouses open house is scheduled for Weds., March 18. Greenhouse caretaker Jane Young will be available to answer questions.

Due to the winter storm, which is expected to result in significant overnight and early morning snow accumulation, Wheaton will delay opening on Monday, March 2, until 1:30 p.m.

Classes scheduled before that time, will not take place; administrative offices will open at 1:30 p.m.

Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn, who was recently honored as the 2008 Classical FM Gramophone Artist of the Year, will showcase her talents as part of the college's Mary Bloor Loser '42 Concert Series.

Byron Hurt, a filmmaker, writer and anti-sexism activist, will visit Wheaton on Wednesday, February 25, to lead a discussion about hip hop music and its underlying messages on race, gender, violence, sex, and visual media.

Four Wheaton seniors will devote ten months of community service to help urban children August through City Year, an AmeriCorps program.

The Department of English and the Dale Rogers Marshall Visiting Artists Program Endowed Fund within the Evelyn Danzig Haas'39 Visiting Artists Program proudly present author Margot Livesey on Wednesday, February 18, at 5 p.m. in Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts. The reading is open to the public without charge.
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A partner in one of Boston's best-known institutional investment firms will visit campus to discuss economic theory, investing and careers in financial management as a Wheaton Distinguished Fellow.

Molly Rose Galdston '09 is the co-author of a study on language development in children with autism that has been presented at two international conferences. The study points up important differences between bilingual and monolingual children with autism that could help refine treatment and intervention methods.

The Wheaton Quarterly magazine has won two silver awards for excellence from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).

The Wheaton community was among the first to preview renown filmmaker Werner Herzog's documentary "Encounters at the End of the World," which was screened on campus last fall. Now that the film has been nominated for an Oscar, there is even more to celebrate.

The global problem of poverty in the midst of plenty, and what that says about the modern food industrial complex, is the subject of a lecture and related events on the Wheaton campus.

When Mike Plante bought lunch for Associate Professor of Art and Film Jake Mahaffy at Red Stripe in Providence, RI, he made one stipulation. In exchange for the meal, Mahaffy must agree to produce a short film. After a couple of burgers and beers, Plante, a Sundance Film Festival programmer, drew up a contract on [...]