The Religion Department will host scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker as the college’s annual Martin Lecturer. Her address, entitled “The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology,” will take place in the Holman Room of Mary Lyon Hall at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22.
Archive for the ‘Sciences’ Category
The emerging alliance of religion and ecology
September 15, 2008New science center in the works
July 24, 2008Plans are underway to build a state-of-the-art science center on the Wheaton campus, with construction slated to begin in March 2009. The Center for Scientific Inquiry and Innovation will be the college’s most ambitious building project to date, comprising the construction of a three-story research-and-teaching facility and renovations to the existing science center.
Cultivating their own garden
May 13, 2008
The children and teachers of the Elisabeth W. Amen Nursery School worked together to create a vegetable garden on the school grounds this spring. President Crutcher paid a visit to help with the digging.
Repotting clinic to be offered May 16
April 21, 2008The Wheaton College greenhouses will offer an open house and repotting clinic on Friday, May 16, from 1 to 4 p.m. Horticulturalist and greenhouse caretaker Jane Young will be available to answer questions.
Research experiences lead to Fulbright award
April 16, 2008
Senior Ashlan Musante has been awarded a 2008 Fulbright Scholarship to join the research team of Dr. Tanja Weil at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. The team’s work involves the design and cellular characterization of customized polymeric architectures.
Wheaton junior wins Goldwater Scholarship for excellence in the sciences
April 7, 2008
Blair Rossetti ’09, a biochemistry major from Plymouth, Mass., has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for 2008. Awarded to outstanding college juniors and seniors in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering, the Goldwater Scholarship is the premier national award for undergraduates in these areas.
Wheaton greenhouses to welcome visitors March 12
February 27, 2008
The Wheaton College greenhouses will be open for tours and a repotting clinic on Wednesday, March 12, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Agriculture and sustainability to be subject of lecture
February 8, 2008Agriculture and sustainability will be the subject of a lecture by author and horticulturist Barbara Damrosch ’64 on February 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Hindle Auditorium of the Science Center.
Astronaut Pam Melroy to speak at Wheaton
January 29, 2008On Feb. 3, NASA astronaut Pam Melroy will talk about her experiences in space, including the dramatic and successful mission to the International Space Station that she led this fall.
Programming for the curious biologist
January 18, 2008
To advise biologists navigating the unfamiliar terrain of computer programming, Wheaton professors Betsey Dyer (biology) and Mark LeBlanc (computer science) have written a guidebook, Perl for Exploring DNA, that serves as an introduction to computer-aided searching of biological sequences.
