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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 [...]

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 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.

Sean O'Se, one of Ireland's great tenors, will perform in concert at Cole Memorial Chapel on Saturday, September 29.

Wheaton has joined a nationwide initiative that launches today to provide college-bound students and their parents with concise, Web-based consumer-friendly information on individual private colleges and universities.

Andries van Dam, professor of computer science at Brown University, will give a lecture entitled When is the pen mightier than the keyboard? on Wednesday, September 26 at 5:30 p.m.

Ronald Richard, president and CEO of The Cleveland Foundation, will receive the Otis Social Justice Award on Thursday, October 18 at 7:30 p. m. in the Hindle Auditorium.

Wheaton welcomed 440 new students to campus in August. Nearly 4,000 high school students applied for spots in the Class of 2011--the most applications Wheaton has ever received--and only 39 percent were offered admission.

The Wheaton College greenhouses are open for tours and repotting clinics four times each academic year. The next open house is scheduled for Monday, October 8, 2007, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

One recent Saturday morning 100 first-year Wheaton students spread out to do everything from washing walls and flipping mattresses to cleaning ovens and raking courtyards for residents who welcomed the extra hands. The effort was all a part of the Season of Service sponsored by the Office of Spirituality, Service and Social Responsibility. The work began this month and will continue into October. Students will work with a dozen social service and educational organizations at 25 local sites.

The rich history of Wheaton, and the ways in which the institution's past informs its present, served as the theme for the 173rd Opening Convocation ceremony held in Cole Memorial Chapel on Wednesday, Aug.

More than 400 first-year Wheaton College students will spend September and October engaged in community service projects in Norton, Attleboro, Taunton and Boston.

The Wheaton College Department of Athletics has announced a partnership with Norton Community Television and student-run campus radio station WCCS-FM 96. 5 to broadcast a number of the school's athletic events over the course of the academic year.

Wheaton welcomed 440 new students to campus in August. Nearly 4,000 high school students had applied for spots in the Class of 2011, the most applications Wheaton has ever received, and only 39 percent were offered admission.

Friends and supporters of Wheaton College contributed a record-setting $34.7 million in gifts and pledges during 2006-2007, while hundreds of volunteers invested their time and talent in service to the college.

In spite of our national obsession with food and diet, few of us truly think about the food on our plates, and how it got there. This summer, Wheaton's incoming freshmen are thinking about just that, as they tackle their summer reading assignment, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan.