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Academic Festival Celebrates Writing!
April 25, 2013Wheaton's Academic Festival celebrates student creativity and research in all disciplines on Friday, April 26 in Balfour Hood, from 12:30-3:30. Come to Balfour to see poster presentations on buffleheads and turkey vultures. See demonstrations on liquid nitrogen ice cream and the history of needlework. Hear original songs and watch original ten-minute plays. Listen to papers [...] More » -
Music Major Thomas Van Duyne ('14)
February 4, 2013For his final project in Writing in Professional Contexts (English 280), jazz saxophonist and music major Tommy Van Duyne created a digital portrait of jazz band founder Rick Britto, who passed away in 2012. Using Rick's music as a rich backdrop for the portrait, Tommy narrates an artist-teacher's life in images and in words. More » -
English Language Conversation Group
December 28, 2012Senior women's studies major and writing tutor Rasheeda Abdul-Musawwir has begun an English-language conversation group, which met once weekly during the fall semester for informal conversations in English. Rasheeda, an active member of the Distinguished Women of Color Collective (DWOCC) and Student Government Association (SGA), spent her last two summers teaching literature to seventh graders [...] More » -
Wheaton Welcomes Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Sylvia Reed
August 12, 2012Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Sylvia Reed joins the Wheaton English department this fall. Professor Reed, a linguist who received her doctorate from the University of Arizona, researches Scottish Gaelic, a fascinating and endangered language. Professor Reed explains that “like other Celtic languages, Scottish Gaelic has many characteristics that might seem strange to a speaker of English--for [...] More » -
Wheaton Wins National Recognition for Writing!
February 17, 2011The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), an association within the National Council of Teachers of English, has awarded the Wheaton College Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Program the 2010-2011 Writing Program Certificate of Excellence! More »
