Making LEAPS

Wheaton's new LEAPS discussion series helps students prepare for transition to professional life by sharing graduates' experiences.

From student to teacher

Matt Sexton ’14 has won a Fulbright award to assistant teach English in Poland during the year after graduation.

Better together

Guided by the Office of Service, Spirituality and Social Responsibility, Wheaton students are organizing the campus’s first Better Together Festival, which celebrates community, diversity and engaged discussion.

Travel bug

Biology Professor Betsey Dexter Dyer is using a Whiting Fellowship to travel to the American Southwest and Pacific Northwest to study microbial evolution in termites.

It takes a village

Jenish Amatya ’17 and his team recently secured a $7,500 grant to start a fish farming venture in Baseri, Nepal.

Other News

• Liquid assets
  

  Senior wins grant to bring potable water to Guatemalan village

• WheaTalks 2014
  

  It’s ten great ideas in one night

• Professional class
  

  Institute offers students the opportunity to explore the humanities and build their skills

• Commencement speaker selected
  

  Johnnetta B. Cole, national museum director

• Sweet lesson
  

  Wheaton alum returns to give talk, tasting on history of French chocolate