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A group of Wheaton students combined their passion for cooking with their dedication to community service, serving lunch to 143 people at a Brockton soup kitchen.

Ancient sculpture head in Wheaton's permanent collection has drawn attention and is being featured in an exhibition at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Geology Matthew Evans a $109,880 grant to investigate Himalayan hot springs and their long-term effect on the global carbon cycle.

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."

Organist Carlton T. Russell will play a recital in Cole Memorial Chapel at Wheaton College on Sunday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m. The program will consist of music by Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901), a German composer considered in his lifetime the equal of Bruckner and Brahms. The event will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the college's large Casavant pipe organ.

The Wheaton College greenhouses will offer an open house and repotting clinic on Monday, Oct. 12, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Horticulturalist and greenhouse caretaker Jane Young will be available to answer questions.

The importance of protecting the environment was instilled in Ellen Perkins ’11 at a very young age. Now she will be able to pursue that interest, thanks to a $46,500 fellowship award.

Robert L. Morris, associate professor of biology, has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his continuing research on the roles of cilia in animal development.

Poet and author Gardner McFall, a Class of 1974 Wheaton graduate, will come to campus on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 5 p.m. to give a poetry reading for students. The event is open to the campus community as well as the public.

Students who have questions about the flu, including H1N1, can join an online discussion with other college students from the Boston area on Friday at 12 noon. The Q&A session is being hosted by WBUR.

The question was simple: What does the U.S. Constitution mean to you? Associate Professor of Philosophy Stephen Mathis posted the question to a group of recent graduates who have experience in political science, public policy or the law. His purpose: to provoke reflection on the United States' founding document as a way to commemorate Constitution Day (September 17).

Wheaton set to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the institution's establishment and the 200th birthday of one of founder Eliza Baylies Chapin Wheaton.

This summer, Wheaton's incoming freshmen are reading Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel about a young girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. What are you reading?

Jose Diaz wins Fulbright Scholarship to Spain to be an English teaching assistant.

Wheaton College welcomes Lee Burdette Williams as new dean of students.

The Wheaton annual fund has topped its $3.7 million goal for the 2008-2009 academic year. Despite the national recession, more than 5,400 people contributed a total of $3,888,255 to the college through their annual gifts.

Julia Bolt, a 2008 Wheaton College graduate from Cambridge, Mass., has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Bulgaria.

Elsy Estevez has been chosen to join Teach For America, which recruits outstanding recent college graduates and working professionals to teach in urban and rural public schools.

The NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) has awarded Assistant Professor of Physics Jason Goodman a five-year grant to investigate the flows of ice-covered oceans on Europa (one of Jupiter's moons) and other moons in the outer solar system.

Current Watson Fellow Rushyan Yen '08 is observing and working alongside batik artists in Europe and Asia and she is writing about her experiences on the blog, Paths of Molten Wax on Volatile Cloth.

President Ronald A. Crutcher made good on a bargain by joining members of the Class of 2009 in jumping into Peacock Pond--just as he promised he would do if their class reached its senior gift participation goal of 96 percent.

On a sunny Saturday morning during Wheaton College's Commencement, Governor Deval Patrick painted a bleak picture of the world. But he said the graduates are the hope for which the world is waiting.

There are no reported or suspected cases of H1N1 influenza (swine flu) on the Wheaton College campus. Wheaton's administrators continue to monitor this situation closely.

On Friday, May 1, Wheaton students flocked to Chapel Field to celebrate the last day of classes and the Hindu spring festival of Holi, indulging in a rare opportunity to throw powdered dye and water at their friends. The revelers, many of them dressed in white, were soon doused with all the colors of a spring garden.

Two students who studied literary translation last fall have had an article about a professional translator published in the winter issue of the New England Translators Association's Newsletter. The newsletter is a quarterly publication, which publishes news items and articles of interest to professional translators.

Biochemistry major Blair Rossetti '09 will conduct stem cell research as a 2009 Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands. At Utrecht University, Rossetti will join the team of Sander van den Heuvel, one of the world's premier scientists in the areas of cell division and polarity research.