Wheaton College Massachusetts

President's Welcome Ceremony 2020
2020-08-22 09:30 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Virtual
President’s Welcome Ceremony 2020
For New Students and Families

Virtual Program
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Please visit the Fall Orientation – Welcome Weekend page for a full listing of events and other helpful information.

Order of Exercises

Welcome
Dennis M. Hanno
President

Greetings
Walter Caffey
Vice President for Enrollment and Dean of Admission & Student Aid
Renée White
Provost
Zachary Irish
Interim Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students
Abaigeal Lypps ʼ21
President, Student Government Association
Meshal Muzaffar ʼ21
Chair, College Hearing Board

Closing
Dennis M. Hanno
President

Weighing Goods—What’s at Stake: Philosophical Perspective and Scientific Application
2020-08-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Join us for this session of the summer seminar and lecture series focused on Public Health and Social Justice. This virtual session is open to the entire Wheaton community, including alumni and parents. Current and incoming Wheaton students will also be able to participate in a reading discussion program related to the lecture series and participating students will receive a Wheaton Public Health and Social Justice certificate.
Presenters:
Teresa Celada, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Meg Kirkpatrick, Associate Professor of Psychology
Sponsored by:
Wheaton Inclusive STEM Excellence (WISE) initiative

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Why Face Masks Work but not Everyone Wears One: A Biopsychosocial Look at COVID-19 Behavior
2020-08-13 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Join us for this session of the summer seminar and lecture series focused on Public Health and Social Justice. This virtual session is open to the entire Wheaton community, including alumni and parents. Current and incoming Wheaton students will also be able to participate in a reading discussion program related to the lecture series and participating students will receive a Wheaton Public Health and Social Justice certificate.
Presenters:
Amy Beumer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology
Michael Berg, Professor of Psychology; Co-Coordinator, Public Health Program
Sponsored by:
Wheaton Inclusive STEM Excellence (WISE) initiative
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Modeling Disease Spread in the Context of Human Behavior: The Impacts on Policy and Social (in)Justice
2020-08-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Join us for this session of the summer seminar and lecture series focused on Public Health and Social Justice. This virtual session is open to the entire Wheaton community, including alumni and parents. Current and incoming Wheaton students will also be able to participate in a reading discussion program related to the lecture series and participating students will receive a Wheaton Public Health and Social Justice certificate.
Presenters:
Emily Fischer, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Kate Mason, Assistant Professor of Sociology/Women and Gender Studies
Sponsored by:
Wheaton Inclusive STEM Excellence (WISE) initiative
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Health Disparities and the Environment
2020-07-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Join us for this session of the summer seminar and lecture series focused on Public Health and Social Justice. This virtual session is open to the entire Wheaton community, including alumni and parents. Current and incoming Wheaton students will also be able to participate in a reading discussion program related to the lecture series and participating students will receive a Wheaton Public Health and Social Justice certificate.
Presenters:
Janina Benoit, Professor of Chemistry
Russell Williams, Associate Professor of Economics; Chair, Department of Economics
Sponsored by:
Wheaton Inclusive STEM Excellence (WISE) initiative
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An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Health Disparities
2020-07-23 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Join us for this session of the summer seminar and lecture series focused on Public Health and Social Justice. This virtual session is open to the entire Wheaton community, including alumni and parents. Current and incoming Wheaton students will also be able to participate in a reading discussion program related to the lecture series and participating students will receive a Wheaton Public Health and Social Justice certificate.
Presenters:
Gabriela Torres, Professor and Chair of Anthropology; Co-Coordinator, Public Health Program
Hilary Gaudet ’09, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Sponsored by:
Wheaton Inclusive STEM Excellence (WISE) initiative
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Virtual Gallery Opening—Many Frequencies, Equal Intensity: 2020 Visual Art Majors' Exhibition
2020-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Virtual
The Wheaton College Visual Art Program is thrilled to invite you to a celebratory virtual gallery opening. During this virtual event senior visual art majors will present their group thesis exhibition Many Frequencies, Equal Intensity in a 3D virtual gallery tour experience powered through the generosity of Kunstmatrix.
Advanced registration is required to attend
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Wheaton Athletics End of Year Awards
2020-05-03 16:00 | Virtual
On Sunday, May 3rd at 4:00 pm, join us for a live broadcast to kick off a week of virtual celebration.
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Virtual Celebration of the 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage
2020-04-16 19:00 | Online
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The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight for the Vote
Keynote speaker, Elaine Weiss
Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 7 p.m.
This event will now be held virtually!
Wheaton alumni, faculty, parents and staff are invited to join our virtual book club, which will be reading Elaine Weiss’ book. Participants will have the opportunity to be part of an online forum to discuss the book with other members of the Wheaton College community.

Finding Remote Internships and Other Summer Experiences Workshop
2020-04-14 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
Join Matt Wheeler of Career Services for a virtual workshop on searching for remote internships for the summer. You will get tips about how to find these opportunities as well as learn strategies for working with employers to potentially create an opportunity that doesn’t exist yet!
To join, please follow the Zoom instructions below:

https://zoom.us/j/110121806?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 110 121 806, Password: [REDACTED]

If you can’t make it, don’t worry! We will be recording the presentation and uploading it to YouTube afterwards. Subscribe to our channel and click the bell icon to be notified when it’s ready:

Surviving the Coronapocalypse: Finding Mental Health Care
2020-04-10 13:00 | Online
This event will focus on how to find mental health care close to you, with information on how to use your insurance to see what services are covered, different types of therapeutic services, and different digital ways to help improve your mental health.
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Equal Pay Day and Salary Negotiation
2020-04-07 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
Career Services and the BASE are collaborating to present this session focused on Equal Pay Day and Salary Negotiation. By attending, you will learn about Equal Pay Day and salary negotiation, participate in trivia, and have an opportunity to win a $30.00 gift card.
Part 1: What is Equal Pay Day – 5:00pm-5:30pm EST Dani Roberts, Social Justice Program Coordinator, will discuss the history of the wage gap and how the wage gap continues to impact women and other intersecting identities. Participants of Part 1 will have a chance to win a $30 Target Gift Card.
Part 2: So You Got The Job: Salary Negotiation Advice, 5:30pm-6:30pm EST Maggie Becker, Associate Director-Career Services will host a session on how to review your offer, and strategies on negotiating your salary. Participants in Part 2 will have another chance of winning a $30 Target Gift Card.
To join in for both parts, access the Zoom Meeting.

Intro to Blender - Navigation and Orientation with Jacob
2020-04-02 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
This is an introduction to the 3D software Blender. No prior experience is necessary! This introduction will go over the general uses for the software and supply you with the knowledge needed to get you started. Feel free to download Blender beforehand and follow along on Twitch.tv. Please email Jacob at libby_jacob@wheatoncollege.edu if you are interested so that he can get an estimated head count beforehand!
Download Blender here
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DIY Cooking with Jacob: Gnocchi!
2020-04-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Learn to make Gnocchi! Tune in with ingredients to make yourself (and your family) some dinner!
** Ingredients needed **
2½ pounds russet potatoes (about 4 large), scrubbed
1¼ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus more
1 egg, beaten to blend
4 tablespoons (½ stick) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, room temperature
2 ounces Parmesan, finely grated, plus more for serving
BEFORE WE BEGIN: Before joining the Zoom meeting make sure you scrub and boil the potatoes (skins on) in a large pot of boiling water (over medium-high heat) for 40 minutes.
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Meeting ID: 391 233 897

Virtual Community Conversation - Understanding and Preventing Hate Speech & Crime
2020-03-31 17:00 - 19:00 | Online
Please mark your calendars for this on-line community event! Please join us virtually (via Zoom) on Tuesday, March 31st, 5-7pm for a community conversation on understanding and preventing hate speech and crime. This event is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and DEAL (Diversity, Equity, & Access Leadership).
RSVP: Please complete this form to RSVP by Friday, March 27th
During this community conversation faculty, staff, and students will have an opportunity to engage with each other and a panel of professionals from Wheaton and the wider Massachusetts community who will provide information, perspective, and guidance about this important social justice issue. They will help us make sense of these violent behaviors, which are on the rise nationally, and better understand how we can prevent them in our communities.
The panelists are:
Adam Strom, Director of Re-Imagining Migration
Adar Cohen (’04), Mediator-Facilitator-Speaker, Co-founder of Civic Leadership Foundation
Christina Riggs Romaine, Associate Professor of Psychology, Wheaton College
Peggy Shukur, Interim Deputy Director, Anti Defamation League (ADL) New England
Robert Winsor, Chief and Director of Public Safety, Wheaton College
Sophia Hall, Supervising Attorney, Lawyers for Civil Rights
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Meeting ID: 104 316 149
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Electronics with Kevin and Madison
2020-03-31 15:00 - 18:00 | Online
Are you interested in electronics?! Have you ever dreamed of building a personal droid? Do you want to work for NASA?! This is not going to get you there because it’s for beginners. BUT, it’s a start. This will be a mixture of information and comedy… technology and philosophy… nature and wisdom… the force and a new hope… for surviving in your parent’s house for the indefinite future. Meet Kevin, a student with little to no qualification to be “teaching” this course… Meet Madison… she works here.
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Discussion Series
2020-03-31 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Join us on Tuesday for a discussion on how 3D printing tech is capable of making a positive impact on the lives of healthcare workers on the front lines.
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Hexaflexagon Making
2020-03-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Online
Are you fidgety during this pandemic and want to relieve your stress. Come and learn how to make hexaflexagons! What are hexaflexagons? They’re paper folds composed of triangles which you can flip inside out over and over again. Hexaflexafolds are fidget toys that come in 2D AND 3D! All you need to bring is a piece of paper, some scissors, and tape/glue. We’ll start off with the classic 2D hexaflexagon and work our way to the little more challenging 3D origami style. Hope to see you there!
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French Cabaret
2020-03-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Balfour-Hood – Lyons Den, Norton, 02766, United States
A night of music and comedy with performances by students, faculty and special guests Les Frères Manouche. Come have a crêpe and support the students singing their hearts out like Piaf.
Contact Prof Walsh at walsh_jonathan@wheatoncollege.edu if you’d like to perform something in French or have questions (by March 1 please).
Open to the public.

Readings by the Writer: Stacy Szymaszek
2020-03-04 17:00 - 18:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – May Room, Norton, MA, 02766
Szymaszek is the author of five books, including Journal of Ugly Sites and A Year from Today. She is a poet who marvels at, is obsessed by, and is always considering how a human lives their life during the course of any given day. Her work has appeared in BOMB, Chicago Review, and VOLT. She has taught with the Naropa Institute of Disembodied Poetics and at Brown University.

Applied Ethics in the Hardest of Places by LTC Nathaniel B. Davis
2020-03-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Despite the recent urging of high-profile figures like Pope Francis and Senator Bernie Sanders to establish a “moral economy,” we have not. Free-market advocates hold fast to justifications that amount to variations on the “invisible hand” theory of Adam Smith — that the economy is not a moral space, but one that relies on a free and fair market, self-interested (as opposed to selfish) actors and amoral (as opposed to immoral) calculation to arrive at the most efficient and innovative outcomes. The invisible hand of the market must be allowed to act; placing moral limits on the economy, they argue, would hinder this flourishing.
Humanity has tried to limit war on moral terms since Cicero first outlined the Just War Ethic, an effort that continues to this day. In war, the reversion to barbarism can be tempting in the heat of battle, and as passions and hatreds rise between peoples. However, even here, humanity has managed to place moral limits. In the modern world, the Just War Ethic may seem like a distant abstraction; but its effects influence the relationship between war and society in profound ways. Michael Walzer, perhaps the most influential living philosopher of just war theories, articulated the importance of seeking to establish moral principles there: “War is the hardest place: if comprehensive and consistent moral judgments are possible there, they are possible everywhere.”
If we can seek to regulate war in terms of morality, there is no reason such morality cannot be equally applied to the economy, as Walzer indicates. War is inherently unjust, but the Just War Ethic has made it more just. The economy is not moral, but a foundational ethics of the economy could make it more moral. The product of such ethics would be decidedly imperfect, but it would be better than no ethics at all.
Reception to follow in Mary Lyons Wooley Room

Stakeholders in the British Shipbreaking Industry
2020-03-02 17:00 - 18:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Digital History at Wheaton College presents Stakeholders in the British Shipbreaking Industry: A Critical Practice of Digital History into Text Encoding and Semantic Web by Naoki Kokaze, University of Tokyo and Kiyonori Nagasaki, International Institute for Digital Humanities

New Plays Festival
2020-03-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2020-02-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Longer form plays—written, directed and performed by Wheaton students—will be showcased at our annual festival.

George Kuo—Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Master
2020-02-27 19:30 - 22:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Kuo is known as one of Hawaii’s premiere Slack Key (ki ho’alu) guitar artists playing in the traditional nahenahe (sweet, soothing) style. In his illustrious career, he has accompanied and collaborated with Hawaii’s major artists such as Eddie Kamae and the Sons of Hawai’i, Dennis Kamakahi, Cyril and Martin Pahinui and Aaron Mahi. His recordings for the Slack Key Guitar Masters Series on the Dancing Cat label, Love for the Elders and Hawaiian Touch, were awarded Instrumental Album of the Year by the Hawai’i Academy of Recording Arts. In addition to his performing career, George is a Board Member of the Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame and Museum, where he has supported initiatives to perpetuate Hawaiian traditional music.

Tales from Mongolia: Adventure in Social Entrepreneurship and Public Health
2020-02-27 17:00 - 18:00 | Knapton Lecture Hall, Norton, Massachusetts, 02766
Ms. Munkhbayar will discuss why and how she chose the path of entrepreneurship and social business, her personal and professional experiences connected to social entrepreneurship in Mongolia, and what she is trying to achieve in Mongolia and elsewhere after her Fulbright Scholarship period in the United States is complete. Dr. Bromage will discuss how he got interested in Mongolia during his doctoral studies and the nutrition situation in the country, his current efforts in Mongolia and related efforts elsewhere, and where his next career steps might be following his postdoctoral work at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Reception to follow in Knapton Lobby.

The game is rigged! Mathematics for cheaters and scoundrels
2020-02-27 17:00 | Discovery Center – Hindle Auditorium, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us for the 12th Norman W. Johnson Lecture in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Professor Zeitz of the University of San Francisco will explore a variety of wagers and games that practically guarantee a win for the player who makes the best mathematical analysis—and will demonstrate why this is the case. It’s not all fun and games though, these vignettes have important mathematical morals to share.

Amazing Grace - a Film featuring Aretha Franklin
2020-02-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Join us for a viewing of the 1972 concert film featuring the incomparable ARETHA FRANKLIN. Wednesday, Feb 26 at 5 PM in the Watson Ellison Lecture Hall.
A brief Q&A will follow with Profs. Shawn Christian & Ann Sears.

Lyons Lunch and Learn webcast - Social entrepreneurship
2020-02-26 12:30 - 13:00 | MA
Join President Dennis M. Hanno and guests for a Lyons Lunch and Learn webcast
Social entrepreneurship
Wednesday, Feb. 26
12:30 to 1:00 p.m. EDT
Webcast and conversation
President Hanno and Imran Chowdhury, the inaugural Diana Davis Spencer Chair of Social Entrepreneurship and Associate Professor of Business and Management, will discuss current social entrepreneurship initiatives and how they fit into the mission of the college’s liberal arts curriculum and, specifically, within Wheaton’s historic focus on experiential learning as an integral part of students’ education.
For this Lyons Lunch webcast, several students involved in social entrepreneurship efforts will share what they are learning through coursework and from putting their own ideas into action. Also, Madison Dunaway, the new Coordinator of Innovation Spaces and Programs, will discuss how our programs, workshops and events help students gain confidence and competence to follow their passions and launch their own social enterprises.
You can join the conversation by posing questions to President Hanno and his guests, during the webcast or in advance, by sending an email to lyonslunch@wheatoncollege.edu.
Watch the webcast on Livestream

A Watchman’s Web: Using Archives to Visualize 19th-Century Providence—12th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Dr. C. Morgan Grefe
2020-02-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
A young watchman at Providence’s Prison made a resolution to keep a daily diary in 1867. He recorded his work with the men and women incarcerated there; but, unlike today, the watchmen lived in the prison as well. What can we learn about Rhode Island history from his words? Dr. Grefe will explore the ways records and documents can illuminate how working-class Providence looked and felt in the 19th century.
