March 18th, 2009
Wheaton College senior Kelly Maby has been awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. The $28,000 award will support her research of the informal waste collection systems that have developed in Egypt, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador and Guatemala. She is the fourth Wheaton student to win a Watson in the past two years.
March 18th, 2009
Professor Jake Mahaffy has been selected as one of 15 international filmmakers to participate in a prestigious workshop associated with the Cannes Film Festival.
March 17th, 2009
Students recently shared their social justice work during a panel discussion on human rights.
March 11th, 2009
A gallery exhibition and catalog, both created by students, trace the development of Wheaton's campus in the 19th and 20th centuries.
March 5th, 2009
Professor of Mathematics William Goldbloom Bloch has won an honorable mention from the 2008 PROSE Awards for his book, The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel.
March 4th, 2009
The work of nationally renowned artist Dorothea Rockburne will be featured in Dorothea Rockburne: The Astronomy Drawings in the Beard and Weil Galleries from Wednesday, March 18 through Friday, April 16.
March 3rd, 2009
The Wheaton greenhouses open house is scheduled for Weds., March 18. Greenhouse caretaker Jane Young will be available to answer questions.
March 1st, 2009
Due to the winter storm, which is expected to result in significant overnight and early morning snow accumulation, Wheaton will delay opening on Monday, March 2, until 1:30 p.m.
Classes scheduled before that time, will not take place; administrative offices will open at 1:30 p.m.
February 19th, 2009
Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn, who was recently honored as the 2008 Classical FM Gramophone Artist of the Year, will showcase her talents as part of the college's Mary Bloor Loser '42 Concert Series.
February 17th, 2009
Byron Hurt, a filmmaker, writer and anti-sexism activist, will visit Wheaton on Wednesday, February 25, to lead a discussion about hip hop music and its underlying messages on race, gender, violence, sex, and visual media.
February 17th, 2009
Four Wheaton seniors will devote ten months of community service to help urban children August through City Year, an AmeriCorps program.
February 17th, 2009
The Department of English and the Dale Rogers Marshall Visiting Artists Program Endowed Fund within the Evelyn Danzig Haas'39 Visiting Artists Program proudly present author Margot Livesey on Wednesday, February 18, at 5 p.m. in Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts. The reading is open to the public without charge.
Margot Livesey grew up in a boys' [...]
February 10th, 2009
A partner in one of Boston's best-known institutional investment firms will visit campus to discuss economic theory, investing and careers in financial management as a Wheaton Distinguished Fellow.
February 9th, 2009
Molly Rose Galdston '09 is the co-author of a study on language development in children with autism that has been presented at two international conferences. The study points up important differences between bilingual and monolingual children with autism that could help refine treatment and intervention methods.
February 3rd, 2009
The Wheaton Quarterly magazine has won two silver awards for excellence from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
February 3rd, 2009
The Wheaton community was among the first to preview renown filmmaker Werner Herzog's documentary "Encounters at the End of the World," which was screened on campus last fall. Now that the film has been nominated for an Oscar, there is even more to celebrate.
January 30th, 2009
The global problem of poverty in the midst of plenty, and what that says about the modern food industrial complex, is the subject of a lecture and related events on the Wheaton campus.
January 14th, 2009
When Mike Plante bought lunch for Associate Professor of Art and Film Jake Mahaffy at Red Stripe in Providence, RI, he made one stipulation. In exchange for the meal, Mahaffy must agree to produce a short film. After a couple of burgers and beers, Plante, a Sundance Film Festival programmer, drew up a contract on [...]
December 10th, 2008
Wheaton seniors Sarah Mielbye and Kristine Vilagie have been chosen to participate in Teach for America (TFA), a select corps of college graduates who commit to teaching for two years in low-income communities across the nation.
November 26th, 2008
Students in the anthropology course "Feast or Famine" conducted an emergency fundraising drive on campus to provide Thanksgiving dinners for local families.
November 21st, 2008
Wheaton presents its annual holiday Vespers concert on Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m.
November 21st, 2008
Come visit Wheaton's greenhouses during open house and repotting clinic on Friday, Dec. 5, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
November 14th, 2008
Derron "J. R." Wallace has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship that will further his aspiration to improve the situation of impoverished rural communities around the globe by enhancing educational systems.
November 11th, 2008
Seven students from Wheaton won Fulbright Scholarships in 2008, placing the college among the top ten liberal arts colleges in the country. The success of the top Fulbright-producing institutions was highlighted in the October 24 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 31st, 2008
Professor of Mathematics William Goldbloom Bloch explores the intersection of math and literature in his recently released book The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel.
October 27th, 2008
Wheaton will present Professor of Chemistry Emerita Bojan Jennings with an honorary degree on Thursday, Oct. 30, at noon in Cole Memorial Chapel.
October 22nd, 2008
The next time you're savoring a Hostess Twinkie, think about what is inside that treat: carbon monoxide, petroleum and rocks. Confused? Author Steve Ettlinger will visit Wheaton on Wednesday, Nov. 5 to explain.
October 22nd, 2008
What would you do with $10,000 to promote world peace?
Wheaton students interested in answering that question have until Jan. 12, 2009, to develop a plan. That's the deadline for submitting a proposal for the Davis 100 Projects for Peace program.
The Davis Projects for Peace program is made possible by Kathryn Wasserman Davis, an accomplished [...]
October 19th, 2008
A new online video series, Wheaton InFocus, has been launched, and the series' first installment focuses on the creation of a site-specific sculpture for the college.
October 13th, 2008
President Ronald A. Crutcher and the Board of Trustees are inviting the Wheaton community and local residents to the groundbreaking for the new Center for Scientific Inquiry and Innovation on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 3 p.m.
