Wheaton College Massachusetts

Parents and Family Weekend
2019-09-21, 2019-09-20 | All Campus, 26 E. Main St., Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join Wheaton College as we celebrate students and their families on this festive fall weekend.
Friday, September 20 – Sunday, September 22, 2019
We hope that you will join us for all the great happenings on campus! A variety of campus events are open to all students and their families. Enjoy open classes, connecting with faculty and staff, food trucks, student performances and more!
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ARTS Quad Party
2019-09-20 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Balfour-Hood – Courtyard, Norton, MA, 02766
Come check out what arts@wheaton is all about, including how you can get involved. There will be live performances, music, tie-dye, airbrush tattoos, screen printing and more. Oh yeah, and a food truck serving up tacos. Come play with us!

Wheaton in Puerto Rico Showcase
2019-09-20 15:00 | Emerson Dining Hall – Faculty Dining Room
Two Years After Hurricane Maria: A reflection by Wheaton students who have seen its impacts firsthand.
In the summer of 2019, Wheaton students were supported by a Mellon Foundation Grant to travel throughout Puerto Rico and learn about gender violence and reconstruction post hurricane Maria. Come to see and hear about the work of students in the course Disaster and Reconstruction led by Professor M.Gabriela Torres and Dean Raquel Ramos on the two year anniversary of Hurricane Maria’s landfall in Puerto Rico.

For the Record: Political/Personal/Historical
2019-09-20 13:00 - 17:00, 2019-09-19 13:00 - 20:00, 2019-09-18 13:00 - 17:00, 2019-09-17 13:00 - 17:00, 2019-09-14 13:00 - 17:00, 2019-09-13 13:00 - 17:00, 2019-09-12 13:00 - 20:00, 2019-09-11 13:00 - 17:00 and 3 more dates | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This exhibition brings together six artists, Sara Jimenez, Antonio McAfee, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Mendi + Keith Obadike, and Dano Wall, who are reframing historical images and information to encourage a shift in perceptions of race, immigration, and colonialism.

Free, Confidential HIV & STD Testing
2019-09-20 09:15 - 12:30, 2019-09-06 09:15 - 12:30
FREE, CONFIDENTIAL HIV & STD TESTING
by Taunton Family Planning
Held at Norton Medical Center
By appointment only – call Cynthia at 508-286-8210 to schedule
Appointments available from 9:15 AM to 12:15 PM

Chlamydia & Gonorrhea Testing (urine)
Rapid HIV Testing (finger stick)
Pregnancy Testing

For more information and/or to schedule an appointment, contact:
Cynthia Maricle, Assoc. Dir., Student Health Services,
at 508-286-8210 or maricle_cynthia@wheatoncollege.edu.
Confidential testing is also available from the medical staff at Norton Medical Center
M – F by appointment only.
Testing is not free; all charges are submitted to your insurance. Self-pay options are available, as well.
Please contact Cynthia at 508-286-8210 to schedule an appointment
or for more information.

Funding Fest
2019-09-19 13:00 - 15:00
Career Services is hosting Funding Fest to help students gain a better understanding of the wide range of funding opportunities available to them. Faculty and staff who are interested in learning more about funding for experiential learning opportunities for their students are welcome to attend.
Students should attend Funding Fest to hear from other students who have taken advantage of funding and learn how to:
Create a plan to make the best use of your funding eligibility
Determine which funding opportunities are right for you
Understand what you will be required to do if you apply for funding

Nutrition Counseling
2019-09-19 11:00 - 14:00, 2019-09-18 11:00 - 14:00
Nutrition counseling sessions are available on-campus with nutritionist, Gretchen Stalters.
WHAT: If you’re looking for advice on losing weight, have a particular medical-nutrition issue, or just want to learn to eat healthier, nutritionist, Gretchen, will provide you with ideas on how to improve your lifestyle.
HOW: To schedule an on-campus appointment, please contact Gretchen directly at 508-622-0813 or gretchenstalters@gmail.com. Nutritional counseling sessions are by appointment only.
WHEN: On-campus appointments are available weekdays during the semester. Please call Gretchen at 508-622-0813 for more information.
COST: Most insurance plans will cover nutritional counseling visits (contact your health insurance customer service representative to confirm coverage). To discuss health insurance coverage questions, contact Gretchen at gretchenstalters@gmail.com.
ACCEPTED INSURANCE PLANS: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Tufts, Harvard, United Health, Cigna, Aetna, Neighborhood Health, and First Health Network.
Gretchen received her B.S. in Nutrition from The University of Connecticut and M.S. in Health Administration from Long Island University. She has years of experience working in hospitals and in private practice with children, teens, and adults.

Introducing Jump!Star
2019-09-13 16:00 - 17:00
Did you know that Polaris won’t always be our North Star? Artist George Ferrandi will talk about this lesser-known fact and the future cultural customs she’s been inventing with communities around the world to say goodbye to Polaris and welcome our next North Star through her expansive interdisciplinary initiative, Jump!Star.

Career Design Studio Launch Party
2019-09-13 15:00 - 16:00
This year, Career Services hired 15 Career Peer Advisors to offer peer-to-peer career advising on a drop-in basis. The Career Design Studio is a dedicated space where these Career Peer Advisors are available Monday through Friday from 10:00am-3:00pm and Monday through Thursday from 7:00pm-9:00pm to meet with students and provide career advice.
Please stop by the Career Design Studio Launch Party on Friday, September 13 from 3:00pm-4:00pm to celebrate our official opening with us, enjoy snacks, and meet our fabulous Career Peer Advisors. The entire campus community is welcome and we will also be joined by a special guest, Roary Lyon!

Study Abroad Fair
2019-09-13 12:00 - 15:00 | Balfour-Hood – Atrium, Norton, 02766, United States
Come learn about your study abroad options at our Annual Study Abroad Fair, with representatives from and information on all Wheaton-approved study abroad programs – including faculty-led programs!

Screening of Survivors
2019-09-12 19:00 - 21:00
Documentary filmmaker Lansana ‘Barmmy Boy’ Mansaray, screens his film Survivors, a portrait of Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the socio-political turmoil that lies in its wake. A Q&A and reception will follow.

Faculty Speaker Series - Dr. Geoffrey Collins
2019-09-12 17:00 - 19:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Dr. Geoffrey Collins, Professor of Geology, will give the third Faculty Scholar Speaker Series talk, “Alien Ocean: How the geology of frozen worlds helps us to search for life inside Jupiter’s moon Europa“.
Jupiter’s moon Europa hosts a vast underground ocean that may be suitable for life as we know it. Dr. Collins will give a talk on his research looking into evidence for plate tectonics on Europa, which could be the key to keeping Europa’s ocean habitable. He will discuss this in the larger context of what we know about Europa and why we think it’s one of the best places to look for life beyond Earth. He will also describe his involvement in building the Europa Clipper spacecraft to explore this mysterious moon in the next decade.
The talk, suitable for general audiences, is open to the Wheaton and Norton communities and will be livestreamed. The talk will be held Thursday September 12, 2019 from 5-6pm, Holman Room, Mary Lyon Hall. All are welcome to attend a reception immediately following the talk and discussion in the Woolley Room.
To watch the event online, visit https://livestream.com/accounts/27137832/events/8812788.
Sponsored by Library Services and the Library, Technology, and Learning Committee, partners in celebrating Wheaton faculty scholarship since 2018.

Women's Health Care at Norton Medical Center
2019-09-11 13:00 - 15:45
Kelliann Bachand, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, is available by appointment for routine GYN care at
Norton Medical Center from 1 – 3:45 PM.
Please call 508-285-9500 to schedule an appointment.
New patient appointments are 30 minutes in length; returning patient appointments are 15 minutes.
Routine care and services include annual GYN exams and Pap tests, birth control options, pregnancy testing, consultation & evaluation, and confidential STD/HIV screening and treatment.
To schedule an appointment with Kelliann, please contact Norton Medical Center directly at 508-285-9500.
All charges will be submitted to your health insurance and deductibles and co-pays are applicable.
Please check with your health insurance plan to confirm coverage.
Questions? Please contact Cynthia Maricle, Assoc. Dir., Student Health Services, at
maricle_cynthia@wheatoncollege.edu or 508-286-8210.

Faculty Recital
2019-09-11 07:30 - 21:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The faculty members in the Department of Music perform as part of the Faculty and Friends Music Series.

Community Conversation - Advocacy & Activisim: Using Your Freedoms For Action
2019-09-10 17:00 - 18:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
How can you use your freedoms to support the positive advancement of specific causes and to represent the concern of others within a system (i.e., advocacy) and/or to bring about social and political change outside of systems (i.e., activism)?
Come and hear from Wheaton community members who are successfully engaged in advocacy and activism work on and off campus. Topics for this conversation will include:

different approaches for effective advocacy and activism
leadership skills for advocacy and activist work
opportunities to engage in advocacy and activism work as a student

Refreshments immediately following this event in Wooley Room.
This community conversation is part of our campus-wide Three Freedoms theme. This program is sponsored by the Student Government Association (SGA), the Scholars At Risk (SAR) Committee, the Center for Social Justice & Community Impact (SJCI), and the Office of the Provost. Contact: Peony Fhagen: Assoc. Provost for Diversity & Faculty Development.

31st Martin Lecture Dr. Tanya Luhrmann "The Voices of Spirits and the Voices of Psychosis"
2019-09-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Tanya Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University, the author of When God Talks Back, and co-editor and contributor to Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures. She has done
ethnography on the streets of Chicago with homeless and psychotic women, and worked with people who hear voices in Chennai, Accra and the South Bay. She has also done fieldwork with evangelical Christians who seek to hear God speak back, with Zoroastrians who set out to create a more mystical faith, and with people who practice magic. She uses a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to understand the phenomenology of unusual sensory experiences, the way ideas about minds and persons shape them, and what we can learn from this social shaping that can help us to help those whose voices are distressing.

Gallery Opening— For the Record: Political/Personal/Historical
2019-09-05 17:00 - 20:00 | Haas Concourse and Lobby, Watson Fine Arts
This exhibition brings together six artists—Sara Jimenez, Antonio McAfee, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Mendi + Keith Obadike, and Dano Wall—who are reframing historical images and information to encourage shifts in perceptions of race, immigration, and colonialism.
The exhibition runs September 3—October 11, 2019.
