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Archive for March, 2009

Gabe Amo '10 is Truman Scholar

March 26, 2009
Gabe Amo '10 is Truman Scholar

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

International "family" inspired Fulbright award recipient

March 25, 2009
International "family" inspired Fulbright award recipient

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.

Campus teach-in focuses on sustainability

March 23, 2009
Campus teach-in focuses on sustainability

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.

Celebrating 20 years of singing

March 19, 2009
Celebrating 20 years of singing

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 senior wins Watson

March 18, 2009
Wheaton senior wins Watson

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.

A worldwide screen for professor's film

March 18, 2009

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 share human rights experiences

March 17, 2009
Students share human rights experiences

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

Beyond bricks and ivy: Modernism at Wheaton

March 11, 2009
Beyond bricks and ivy: Modernism at Wheaton

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

Math professor's book wins national laurels

March 5, 2009
Math professor's book wins national laurels

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.

Dorothea Rockburne exhibit to open

March 4, 2009
Dorothea Rockburne exhibit to open

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.