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Ryan Letada '08 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to go to the Philippines to research methods to reduce homelessness.

Wheaton College 2008 graduate Ryan Patch plans to bike from California to Boston to raise $50,000 to empower poor villagers in Nicaragua, where he spent time last summer creating and funding microcredit as part of his project for peace, which was funded by Wheaton.

The Class of 2008 has set a new Wheaton record for Annual Fund participation by a graduating class, with 324 seniors--90 percent of them--contributing to the senior class gift.

Graduating senior Anne Bahr was awarded a French Government Teaching Assistantship which will provide her the opportunity to teach English as a foreign language through the Academie de Dijon next year.

Graduating senior Cara Strachan wins French Government Teaching Assistantship that will allow her to spend next year teaching English to elementary level students in Provence.

Two Wheaton faculty members are heading to Africa in June to participate in faculty development seminars sponsored by the Council for International Educational Exchange (CIEE). The seminars, supported with funds through the Wheaton Office of the Provost, will help the professors enrich their classroom curriculum.

Giving the keynote address at Wheaton College's 173rd Commencement held on May 17, 2008, Wheaton alumna Katharine T. Bartlett marveled at the dramatic social, technological and scientific advances that have occurred over the past 40 years since she graduated in 1968, and called attention to how far we still have to go.

What's in a name? For Dean of Students Sue Alexander, who has to pronounce all of the student names at Commencement and get them right, everything. What's the secret to her success?

Wheaton English professor and writer-in-residence Sue Standing will teach literature and poetry writing and work on a series of poems in Toulouse, France, this fall as a Fulbright Scholar.

The children and teachers of the Elisabeth W. Amen Nursery School worked together to create a vegetable garden on the school grounds this spring. President Crutcher paid a visit to help with the digging.

For years, the hidden history of the Abenaki peoples of the northeastern United States and Canada has captivated Wheaton College senior Ashley Smith, who has been researching the historical and contemporary lives and cultures of this Native American group. Now she gets to dig deeper. The Madison, Maine resident has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in Canada on the Abenaki.

The Department of Athletics held its annual awards ceremony at Emerson Dining Hall on Tuesday night. Highlighting the evening was the announcement of the five major awards, including two that went to senior Erin Davis (Easton, CT/Joel Barlow), and acknowledgment of Dean of Students Sue Alexander and her 21 years of support for Wheaton athletics.

Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, a nationally acclaimed public health leader, will deliver a lecture titled "Violence Prevention: A Public Health Mandate" at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29, in Watson Auditorium.

The Wheaton College greenhouses will offer an open house and repotting clinic on Friday, May 16, from 1 to 4 p.m. Horticulturalist and greenhouse caretaker Jane Young will be available to answer questions.

Russian Studies major Michael Freese '08 will head to Russia later this year to teach English as a 2008 Fulbright Scholar.

Derron J.R. Wallace, who graduated from Wheaton in May 2007, has been awarded a 2008 Fulbright to teach English and conduct research on education reform in Thailand. In his Fulbright proposal, he said that as a teaching assistant he hopes to help Thai students gain higher levels of fluency in English and a broader, fuller understanding of the diversity and complexity of American culture.

Senior Ashlan Musante has been awarded a 2008 Fulbright Scholarship to join the research team of Dr. Tanja Weil at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. The team's work involves the design and cellular characterization of customized polymeric architectures.

Meghan Kenny, a Wheaton College senior majoring in theatre studies and dance with a minor in sociology, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship to teach English in Malaysia.

Senior history major Caroline Teague has won scholarships from the St. Andrews Society of New York to support her studies at the University of Edinburgh's School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Rachelle DeCoste has been awarded a $6,000 grant from the Mathematical Association of America/Tensor Foundation that will support a newly created workshop for women in mathematics. The workshop will be held at Wheaton College July 27-29. The registration deadline is May 1.

Wheaton has received approval to participate in the federally funded William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. The college plans to implement this new program for the 2008-2009 academic year. The move will allow Wheaton students and their families to avoid the increasingly volatile market for Stafford and PLUS loans offered by third-party lenders.

An interactive "hunger banquet" was held at Wheaton on February 28 to help raise campus awareness of global hunger, poverty and fair trade.

Blair Rossetti '09, a biochemistry major from Plymouth, Mass., has been named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for 2008. Awarded to outstanding college juniors and seniors in the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering, the Goldwater Scholarship is the premier national award for undergraduates in these areas.

A Wheaton tradition that dates back to the 1920s returns center stage on Friday, April 11, courtesy of senior Michael Balderrama, who is staging a Greek tragedy on the steps of the Madeleine Clark Wallace Library. Euripides's Orestes: A New Translation will be performed from 1 to 2:30 p.m. as part of Balderrama’s senior honors thesis during Wheaton’s 17th annual Academic Festival.

Wheaton College is ranked among the top 15 percent of over 400 NCAA Division III institutions in the final winter United States Sports Academy Directors' Cup standings.

Wheaton senior Esther Jeong has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to research changes in traditional dance styles and the cultural shifts that have occurred as globalization has taken place in contemporary South Korea.
Fulbright scholarships are awarded for a variety of educational activities, including university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and [...]

Abdolkarim Soroush, a leading light in the Islamic reform movement, will give a lecture entitled "Islam and Democracy: Democratic Voices within the Islamic World" at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 7.

The latest feature film by Wheaton professor Jake Mahaffy won the award for best "feature film" at the South By Southwest Film Festival held recently in Austin.

Representing the broad diversity of scholarship and achievement on campus, a dozen Wheaton students have won awards and national honors this spring, including two seniors who have earned coveted Watson Fellowships for independent study abroad. The students have won recognition for their scholarly work, proposed research and service projects, as well as achievements in the arts.

Eight Wheaton students performed at the Song Festival of the Rhode Island chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing on March 1, and five of them came away with honors in the annual competition.