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."