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Joseph Campbell ’14

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  • Anson and Jean J. Beard ’65 Trustee Scholar
  • Chemistry
  • Loudon, N.H.

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Julie Bogen ’14
Judith Garcia ’13
Joseph Campbell ’14

Go Beyond, Campaign for Wheaton“I worked with Professor Jani Benoit on a summer research project. We had a lot of one-on-one time, a lot of lab time to learn research skills. I loved it. At a bigger university, if an undergrad is doing research, he is probably making photocopies and handing them to a graduate student. Here, you really are involved. You’re right in the thick of the material. It’s really an experience like no other.

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Dig it

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The college’s supporters celebrated a major victory at Homecoming with the groundbreaking for the Diane C. Nordin ’80 Turf Field, expected to open for the fall 2013 semester. Student-athletes and coaches, trustees and administrators joined Nordin (center) and her husband, Thomas Keller (in Wheaton sweatshirt), to kick off construction. In six short months, alumnae/i, parents and friends contributed $3 million toward the new artificial turf field, which will expand the opportunities for varsity, club and intramural teams. Before opening day, however, the college must raise an additional $1 million to support long-term maintenance for the field. For more information, or to get involved, visit wheatoncollege.edu/gobeyond or call Marjorie Houston at 508-286-3556.

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The virtuous circle

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John and Ann Kirkpatrick Runnette ’56

John and Ann Kirkpatrick Runnette ’56

Sunny Chen ’06 remembers the first time she met John and Ann Kirkpatrick Runnette ’56.

“I had just co-founded the Wheaton Investment Club with two classmates,” she recalls. “The Runnettes were so supportive of our initiative that they immediately promised seed funding to the investment club!”

Their investment in the club marked the start of a relationship between Chen and the Runnettes that has featured several big surprises.

The first came in 2006, when the economics major and Wheaton Posse Scholar graduated. The Runnettes, who were on campus for Ann Runnette’s 50th Reunion, attended the Posse celebration that followed Commencement. “We just think she’s a lovely person,” Ann Runnette says. “When she graduated, we met her parents and many of her family members at graduation.”

The Runnettes were so moved by the ceremony that they decided to name their Wheaton Fund Scholarship in Chen’s honor. “I was very surprised and humbled,” admits Chen, who prefers to see the honor as symbolic. [Read more...]

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Creating learning opportunities from research grants

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Professor Matthew EvansProfessor Matthew Evans and four Wheaton students will spend the next three summers above the Arctic Circle seeking to better understand how the melting of Greenland’s glaciers will contribute to rising sea levels.

“The big question is how the Disko Bay system has responded to temperature changes in the recent past,” Professor Evans said. “The hope is that we can better predict how warming will impact the system in the future. It’s an important system, with one of the fastest-advancing and iceberg-producing glaciers on Earth.”

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $139,104 grant to Evans for the research effort, which will also take the Wheaton team to the National Ice Core Lab in Denver, Colo., to analyze the 100-meter ice cores they will collect in Greenland. [Read more...]

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