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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.

Images from the Cassini space probe reveal huge geysers spewing from the southern polar region of one of Saturn's moons generating excitement in the world of planetary science .

Wheaton has been awarded two grants totaling $450,000 to support key programs of the college. The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation has granted the college $200,000 to sustain the Office of Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility (SSSR), and the Mars Foundation has awarded a $250,000 grant to increase the summer research opportunities available through the Mars Faculty/Student Research Fellowships Program.

For the seventh straight time, Wheaton College completed an academic year ranked among the top 50 NCAA Division III institutions in the final United States Sports Academy (USSA) Directors' Cup standings.

The college will host a public forum on Wednesday, June 13, sponsored by state Sen. James Timilty and the Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government.

At Honors Convocation, chemistry professor Herb Ellison emphasized the importance of science education for all students.

Art and nature intertwine in the sculpture of Noah Mithoefer Buehner.

President Ronald A. Crutcher played Vivaldi's Concerto in G minor with the Boston Classical Orchestra (BCO) at Faneuil Hall.

Meghan Smith '09 recently participated in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) national championship show.

The Wheaton Board of Trustees voted unanimously to divest from its endowment holdings any direct investments in companies identified as conducting business in the Sudan.

Giving the keynote address at Wheaton College's 172nd Commencement held on May 19, 2007, pioneering educator Freeman Hrabowski III told the 370 members of the Class of 2007 that education can equalize opportunities, and he urged them to realize their potential as leaders.

The struggle for gender equality in the workplace is not over and today's college students graduates must carry the fight forward, said noted attorney Kathleen O'Donnell, who received an honorary degree during the college's 172nd Commencement on Saturday, May 19, 2007.

Laura Corkery '07, a French Studies and International Relations major from North Marshfield, Mass., has won a French Teaching Assistantship through the Fulbright program. She will teach English next year in the university town of Rennes, France.

Lauren Cipollone '08, a German major from East Burke, Vermont, has been selected to participate in a weeklong summer seminar--the Graduate School Experience--at the University of Minnesota for academically outstanding students considering graduate work in German studies.

Wheaton College senior Ashley Young, a biology major from Westford, Mass., has been awarded a research Fulbright to study the effect of an invasive insect and animal on the lives of indigenous people in Canada.

The Department of Athletics honored five student athletes at its annual awards ceremony on May 1.

Wheaton alumna Courtney McPhail, a 2005 graduate from New York, N. Y., who majored in German and minored in studio art, will teach English in Germany as a 2007 Fulbright Scholar.

Wheaton graduate Stefan Sirucek '06, a German major and filmmaker from Wellfleet, Mass., has won a Fulbright Fellowship to teach English in Germany, where he will apply his knowledge of filmmaking and theater in the classroom.

Wheaton junior Ashley Smith of Madison, Maine, has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship to continue studying the effects of oppression on Native American identity in the Northeast.

NORTON-Wheaton alumna Janet Turkovich '05, of Westford, Mass. , has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach high school students English as a Foreign Language in Hamburg, Germany.

A patchwork quilt made by Wheaton students to inspire, encourage and show solidarity with local HIV positive women of color is visiting a variety of local organizations this month.