Wheaton College Massachusetts

Faculty Research Talk
2023-10-17 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join Leanna Lawter, Associate Professor of Business & Management for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Effectiveness of Flipped Classroom Format in Quantitative and Non-Quantitative Business Courses – A Meta-Analysis.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
The current meta-analysis investigates two student outcomes of the flipped or inverted classroom format in quantitative and non-quantitative business courses: knowledge acquisition and satisfaction. Data was collected through a search of nine databases to identify empirical studies which compared student outcomes in flipped classrooms to lecture classrooms. A total of 35 studies were identified for inclusion in the study. Results show that flipped format had a positive effect on knowledge acquisition for both quantitative and non-quantitative courses as compared to lecture courses. The impact in non-quantitative courses on knowledge acquisition was larger than the effect in quantitative courses, but was not statistically significant. Student satisfaction in flipped classrooms as compared to lecture classes was higher in quantitative courses, but not statistically significant. The implications for business education is to not use flipped classroom approach as a universal format for instruction but in courses where students benefit from self-directed learning and the increased workload for students merits the gains in learning.
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Come Frunch with Us
2023-10-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-27 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-03 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-17 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-11-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-12-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-12-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Emerson Dining Hall – President’s Dining Room, Norton, 02766, United States
Come on Come All!
When: Fridays
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Who: Anyone wanting to practice their French is welcome
Where: Emerson Dining Hall (look for the French flag!)
Please contact Alexandra Place at place_alexandra@wheatoncolleg.edu with questions or comments

CJRJC Speaker Series: Keynote Speaker – Gregory S. Gordon
2023-10-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Law Faculty
Please join us for our Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice, and Criminology Speaker Series. Keynote Speaker – Gregory S. Gordon. Professor Gordon is a former US federal prosecutor and leading scholar on international criminal justice issues. His talk will focus on justice for survivors of war crimes, crimes against humanity and of genocide. Professor Gordon is author of the seminal book, Atrocity Speech Law.

Roundtable: Alternative Accountability Mechanisms and Restorative Justice at the International Level
2023-10-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Balfour-Hood – 1960 Room, Norton, 02766, United States
The Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice, and Criminology (CJRJC) program announces a Roundtable to take place on Thursday, October 26, from 1-2 p.m. in the Balfour Hood Campus Center 1960 Room.
Former US federal prosecutor and leading scholar on international criminal justice issues, Professor Gregory S. Gordon will be conducting the Roundtable. All are invited to attend.

Faculty Research Talk
2023-10-30 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join Kathy Morgan, Associate Professor of Psychology for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Healing Dakota: A Story of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Working Dogs.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
An estimated 50,000 working dogs are deployed in law enforcement in the US, most of whom are routinely exposed to dangerous and stressful conditions as a daily part of their jobs. Just as with humans, some individuals are resilient in the face of such stress, but others are not so fortunate, and become so overwhelmed by anxiety that they become dangerous and no longer deployable. In this talk, I will talk about recognizing signs of stress in dogs, and reading dog behaviors that can sometimes be quite subtle, but whose understanding can help prevent canine aggression. Using K9 Officer Dakota and his story as a case study, I will also present a brief history of dogs in law enforcement, and talk about my work and the work of Wheaton College students at the K9 PTSD Center in Seekonk, a nonprofit dedicated to the rehabilitation of law enforcement working dogs with post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of their time in service.
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Faculty Research Talk
2023-11-07 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join Montserrat Pérez Toribio, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, The Manly Flight of Mary Stuart O’Donnell, Countless of Tyrconnell.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
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Communications & Literacy MTEL Prep (Education Licensure)
2023-11-08 17:00 - 19:00, 2023-11-13 17:00 - 19:00 | Meneely 104
Academic Advising is providing free prep sessions for the Communication & Literacy MTEL from 5-7 PM on Wednesday, November 8 & Monday, November 13. This exam (along with completion of an education major) is required to earn your teaching license.
Location: Meneely 104
The Wednesday session will be on the Reading subtest and the Monday session will be on the Writing subtest.
The instructor will focus on reviewing your questions about the practice tests (click links below). In order to be prepared and benefit from the sessions, it is important to complete and bring a copy (or have electronic access) of the Reading practice test (11/5) or the Writing test (11/13).

Reading Subtest (pdf)
Writing Subtest (pdf)

Faculty Research Talk
2023-11-16 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join Sara Donaldson, Assistant Professor of Education for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Leveraging Collective Doubt to Deepen Learning.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
Transformational change within social contexts, such as schools, requires a cohesive vision and action plan. This work can be promoted by providing the individuals involved with structured opportunities to collectively grapple with the nuances of terminology and facets of related initiatives in terms of expectations for what the work looks like in practice. Using narrative data collected from field research with mathematics instructional leaders, this faculty research talk will unpack a five-phase framework shown to provide this needed structure. By positioning moments of doubt as opportunities for collaborative learning, this framework serves as a flexible structure to guide shared knowledge development from the initial identification of a shared goal to cohesive understanding and systemic transformation.
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Film Screening: Navalny
2024-02-20 18:00 | Watson Fine Arts – 102, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us for this screening of Navalny which follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.

An Evening with Artist Finnegan Shannon
2024-02-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Finnegan Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist whose work experiments with access and ableist assumptions. At Wheaton this semester, they will explore Alt text as poetry in an ongoing collaborative project with students. After the artist’s talk, Beard and Weil Galleries will be open for students to talk to Finnegan and hear more about joining the project.
Presented by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

AI in our world: chatGPT and more...
2024-02-29 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
Please join us for a presentation on AI in our world: chatGPT and more… with Mark D. LeBlanc, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor, Computer Science. He will be discussing different chatbots, “stages” of AI and machine learning.
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Faculty Research Talk
2024-03-05 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Sarah Christensen, Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow, History Department, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Marriage as a Path to Freedom for Enslaved Women in the Early Middle Ages.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
Description: I examine how enslaved women in the early Middle Ages approached marriage and childbearing as means to secure emancipation. According to a long legal tradition dating to the Roman classical period and lingering in the law codes of both medieval western Europe and Byzantium, marriage offered enslaved women a change in social position as well as a specific transformation of legal status from unfree to free. Looking at legal documents and narrative sources, I examine how individual women strategically leveraged marriage and childbearing to achieve desires that included but were not limited to emancipation, and how these women calculated possibilities for improvement using knowledge of their legal status, social standing, and sexual value.
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Nursing Program Open House
2024-03-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Please join us to learn more about Wheaton’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

Take a tour of our state-of-the-art high fidelity simulation and skills center
Meet our faculty and staff
Learn about career opporunities as Nursing Faculty or Adjunct Clinical Instructors
Enjoy some refreshments and appetizers.

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Face-to-Face with Life without Parole
2024-03-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Delve into the past and present reality without parole in the U.S., drawing on the work of The Visiting Room Project and its first-person testimonials.
The panelists are: Marcus Kondkar, chair of the Sociology Department at Loyola University New Orleans and lead creator of the Visiting Room Project. Alvin Catchings, a Visiting Room Ambassador who served 32 years at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Terrence Guy, a Visiting Room Ambassador who served 28 years at Angola Prison.
The Visiting Room Project is a digital experience that invites the public to sit face-to-face with people serving life without the possibility of parole to hear them tell their stories, in their own words.
This event is part of the speaker series of the Criminal Justice, Restorative Justice and Criminology Program at Wheaton College. It is co-sponsored by the Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, and Film and New Media Studies departments; Wheaton College Speaker Fund/SGA Finance Committee, Office for Institutional Equity and Belonging, the Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning, Center for Social Justice and Community Impact, and Peace and Justice Studies.

Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-04 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Alessandra Ward, Asst. Professor of Education, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Want your child to be a strong reader? Prioritize social-emotional learning.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
The topics of elementary reading education and social-emotional learning (SEL) frequently appear in current news headlines, often as a subject of debate. However, many (if not all!) teachers and families would agree that we want our children to be confident, capable readers and writers, and that we also want them to be able to participate in classroom and community life, get along with their peers, develop their talents, and learn to make responsible decisions. This talk will lay out the theoretical and empirical support behind how teaching SEL in school can positively support children’s literacy development, and vice versa. Practical suggestions will be given for how teachers and families of elementary-aged children can leverage synergies between SEL and literacy; for example, criteria for selecting read-aloud picture books that can address goals in both content areas.
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Free MTEL Prep Sessions
2024-04-04 17:00 - 19:00, 2024-04-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Meneely – 103
The Education Department is providing free prep sessions for the Communication & Literacy MTEL from 5-7 PM on Thursday, April 4 & Monday, April 8. This exam is required to earn your teaching license.
Location: Meneely 103
The Thursday session will be on the Reading subtest and the Monday session will be on the Writing subtest.
The instructor will focus on reviewing your questions about the practice tests (click links below). In order to be prepared and benefit from the sessions, it is important to complete and bring a copy (or have electronic access) of the Reading practice test (Thursday) or the Writing test (Monday).
Reading Subtest
https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/Content/Docs/MA_FLD101_Reading_PRACTICE_TEST_V2.pdf
Writing Subtest
https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/Content/Docs/MA_FLD201_Writing_PRACTICE_TEST_V2.pdf

Science Writing for the Public Good: Let’s Have Fun with Math & Get Serious About AI
2024-04-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The 2024 Norman W. Johnson Lecture will be delivered by award-winning science writer and mathematician Susan D’Agostino. This talk will range from the delightful fact that penguins use mathematics to huddle in Antarctica’s subzero temperatures to the dangers of unbridled technology optimism.
D’Agostino is a Spencer Education Journalism Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she is working on a book about AI in higher education. She the author of How To Free Your Inner Mathematician (Oxford University Press, 2020), which received the Mathematical Association of America’s Euler Book Prize for an exceptionally well written book with a positive impact on the public’s view of math. She is the technology correspondent at Inside Higher Ed. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Scientific American, Wired, Quanta, BBC, Nature, National Public Radio, Financial Times, and other outlets.
Her writing has been recognized with fellowships from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, National Association of Science Writers, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, and Mila–Quebec AI Institute. She earned a Ph.D. in math from Dartmouth College, an MA in science writing from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in anthropology from Bard College.

Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-10 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Professor of Religion, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Cuisine and Cultural Appropriation: The Case of Palestinian and Israeli Food Tourism.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
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Faculty Research Talk
2024-04-15 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
Join Andrew Davinack, Asst. Professor of Biology, for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Invisible Invaders: The Impact of Non-Indigenous Parasites on Global Shellfish Aquaculture.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
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The World of Design—16th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Doug Scott
2024-04-17 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us as we explore the wide wide world of graphic design and its relationship to other design disciplines.
Doug Scott’s design work has won awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society of Typographic Arts, Boston Hatch Awards, New York Art Directors Club, Boston Art Directors Club, Broadcast Designers Association and Bookbuilders of Boston. He has been a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts since 1974 and served on its national board of directors from 1989–1992. He currently runs a design practice doing book and identity design, and is consulting Art Director of Davis Publications, an art education publisher in Worcester, Massachusetts. Scott teaches graphic design, exhibition design, typography and graphic design history at the RISD and teaches graphic design and design history at the Yale School of Art. He has also taught at UMASS/Dartmouth, Northeastern, RIC and Connecticut College.

2024 Visual Art and Design Majors' Senior Exhibition Opening Reception
2024-04-18 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This annual exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s 21 graduating visual art and design majors. It features animation, painting, sculpture, app design, architecture, apparel design, photography, drawing, and textiles.
