September 2003
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Faculty Focus
Laser sharp
Xuesheng Chen, associate professor of physics and astronomy, has been awarded a $30,000 grant through the National Science Foundation's Small Business Technology Transfer program. Under the grant, Chen and her students will collaborate with Boston Applied Technologies on a research project that "could put the United States on the leading edge of high-power laser technology," she says. (Learn more.)
Professor Albro goes to Washington
Robert Albro, assistant professor of anthropology at Wheaton, is one of six U.S. scholars to win a Library of Congress Fellowship in International Studies this year. While in residence at the library, Albro will conduct research for a book project analyzing the emergence of a popular political movement in Bolivia. (More here.)
Campus News & Events
Opening new vistas in the arts
An exhibition of glass sculpture by Christopher Ries opens the 2003-2004 season of the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program & Arts in the City, Wheaton's major new arts initiative. "The reason I love working with optic crystal is that it's a conductor of light," says Ries, "the chief material that gathers, reflects, refracts and transmits light." Learn more about his visit and the Visiting Artists Program on the Wheaton Web.
Spend some time with your family
... your Wheaton family, that is. Homecoming Weekend, October 23-26, is just weeks away, as are the brilliant colors of autumn. We hope you'll join us to sample some outstanding academic, arts and athletics events, weigh in on Wheaton's presidential search, and visit with fellow alumnae/i at the height of fall foliage season. It will bring back memories, even as you make new ones. Visit the Wheaton Web site to register online or get a preview of what's on tap for Homecoming.
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