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Wheaton seniors Jennifer Bombasaro-Brady and Ru-Shyan Yen are two of 50 college students nationwide selected today to receive a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. The $25,000 award will support a year of travel and research for each student. Bombasaro-Brady plans to investigate the social significance of historical re-enactments; Yen will explore varied artistic techniques for creating batik.

Senior Kara Schamell's research into the meaning of a spiritual Zimbabwean music form played on an indigenous instrument and its transformation as a secular art form embraced in the World Music industry won recognition as the best undergraduate project of the year at a regional anthropology conference.

A series of African films and an accompanying lecture provide glimpses into the diversity of African cultures through issues such as gender and class.

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.

"The Power of Nonviolence," a program of events designed to promote awareness of nonviolence and protest among member of the Wheaton community, will take place February 25 to 27. The program is sponsored by the college's Office of Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility.

The Wheaton Athletic Mentors (WAMs), a leadership group of student-athletes from each of the college's 21 varsity sports programs, will host the fourth annual Big Event on Friday and Saturday to promote sobriety among college students and to contribute to the local community. Proceeds from the event will be donated to Students Against Destructive Decisions [...]

Agriculture 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.

On 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.

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.

Two Wheaton sophomores have curated a campus art exhibition from the personal collections of faculty and staff members.

Wheaton students, staff and faculty will join their peers around the country in seeking to raise awareness about global climate change during Focus the Nation, which is being billed as the biggest teach-in in history.

An exhibition of some of the most important Latin American artists of the last half-century opens at Wheaton College’s Beard and Weil Galleries on February 4 and continues through April 10.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the college a grant of more than $400,000 for the first three years of the Summer Institute in Literary and Cultural Studies (SILCS), which aims to increase diversity among college and university faculty members teaching English.

Sunila Thomas-George has been named a commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination by Gov. Deval Patrick.

Ashley Mott '08 and Caitlin O'Connor '08 spent the summer of 2007 helping to expand an established after-school program in Tanzania. Now they are helping to sustain it by selling greeting cards made from the Tanzanian children's artwork.

The Sundance Film Festival has selected one of Wheaton film professor Jake Mahaffy's most recent short films for screening at the international festival, which starts in mid-January.
The film, Motion Studies: Inertia is one of 83 short films selected from more than 5,000 works submitted by U.S. and international filmmakers hoping to have their work shown [...]

Wheaton College is among the top Division III schools following the United States Sports Academy Directors’ Cup’s second set of fall rankings, as the Lyons are tied for 44th in a pool of over 400 active member institutions.

Starlight and the new year will be among the themes as the Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers present their annual holiday vespers concert on Sunday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m.

The Wheaton College greenhouses will hold an open house on Friday, Dec. 7 from 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. During the open house, visitors are free to wander around the greenhouses at their leisure and may also bring plants in need of repotting.

Joel C. Relihan, professor of classics, has produced a new translation of Apuleius's Latin classic, The Golden Ass (Or, A Book of Changes). The project, which took more than a year, resulted in a version of the work that is not only learned but also readable and fun.

The internationally acclaimed Italian novelist Dacia Maraini will talk about her life and work in a public lecture at Wheaton on Thursday, Nov. 15.

The Wheaton Distinguished Fellows program will bring the managing director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mark Volpe, to visit campus on Tuesday, Nov. 13, to talk with students about careers in arts management and to discuss the renowned organization?s diversity initaitives.

William Allen '09 feels a particular affinity for Harriet Wilson, an indentured servant who lived in the town of Milford, N. H. , in the mid-1800s.

Kim Miller, assistant professor of women's studies and art history, received the 2007 Aluka Award for Innovative Teaching. Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative that seeks to connect resources and scholars from around the world with Africa.

In partnership with a grassroots organization in the Philippines, four Wheaton students are working to establish a computer clinic for rural schoolchildren in that Southeast Asian country.

The Fulbright Program recently announced the complete list of colleges and universities that produced the most 2007-2008 U. S. Fulbright Fellows. The success of the top producing institutions was highlighted in the October 26 printed edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Accomplished sculptor and performance artist, Janine Antoni, will give a lecture regarding her career and inspiration on Wednesday, October 24, 2007, in Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts at 7:00 p.m.

The extraordinary Orchid Ensemble will perform at Wheaton on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 in the Cole Memorial Chapel at 7:30 p.m.

The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) announced that it has launched a new conference Web site, www.newmacsports.com.

The Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning and the Latino Student Association have organized a series of social, musical and political events to enrich the celebration of Latino Heritage Month on the Wheaton campus this October.