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Archive for February, 2009

Grammy Award-winning violinist coming to Wheaton

February 19, 2009
Grammy Award-winning violinist coming to Wheaton

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.

Hip hop culture: a closer look

February 17, 2009
Hip hop culture: a closer look

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.

Giving a year to change the world

February 17, 2009
Giving a year to change the world

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

Readings by the Writer, Margot Livesey at Wheaton College

February 17, 2009

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. Margot Livesey grew up in a [...]

Blazing a path to financial success

February 10, 2009

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.

Psychology major co-authors language acquisition study

February 9, 2009
Psychology major co-authors language acquisition study

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.

Wheaton Quarterly team wins awards for excellence

February 3, 2009
Wheaton Quarterly team wins awards for excellence

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

Wheaton previewed Oscar-nominated film

February 3, 2009
Wheaton previewed Oscar-nominated film

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.