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Students in the anthropology course "Feast or Famine" conducted an emergency fundraising drive on campus to provide Thanksgiving dinners for local families.

Wheaton presents its annual holiday Vespers concert on Dec. 7, at 7:30 p.m.

Come visit Wheaton's greenhouses during open house and repotting clinic on Friday, Dec. 5, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Derron "J. R." Wallace has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship that will further his aspiration to improve the situation of impoverished rural communities around the globe by enhancing educational systems.

Seven students from Wheaton won Fulbright Scholarships in 2008, placing the college among the top ten liberal arts colleges in the country. The success of the top Fulbright-producing institutions was highlighted in the October 24 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education

Professor of Mathematics William Goldbloom Bloch explores the intersection of math and literature in his recently released book The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel.

Wheaton will present Professor of Chemistry Emerita Bojan Jennings with an honorary degree on Thursday, Oct. 30, at noon in Cole Memorial Chapel.

The next time you're savoring a Hostess Twinkie, think about what is inside that treat: carbon monoxide, petroleum and rocks. Confused? Author Steve Ettlinger will visit Wheaton on Wednesday, Nov. 5 to explain.

What would you do with $10,000 to promote world peace? 
Wheaton students interested in answering that question have until Jan. 12, 2009, to develop a plan. That's the deadline for submitting a proposal for the Davis 100 Projects for Peace program. 
The Davis Projects for Peace program is made possible by Kathryn Wasserman Davis, an accomplished [...]

A new online video series, Wheaton InFocus, has been launched, and the series' first installment focuses on the creation of a site-specific sculpture for the college.

President Ronald A. Crutcher and the Board of Trustees are inviting the Wheaton community and local residents to the groundbreaking for the new Center for Scientific Inquiry and Innovation on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 3 p.m.

College students voting in this year's presidential election can thank others for leading the way in earning their right to cast a ballot. Among them: Candy Yaghjian Waites '65 and a group of her friends and classmates.

The Wheaton College greenhouses will offer an open house and repotting clinic on Monday, Oct. 13, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Arc of Intent: Claudia R. Fieo, Selected Works, 1988-2008, which is currently in the Beard and Weil Galleries through Oct. 19, reflects Professor of Art Claudia R. Fieo's faith in creating art, as well as traces the arc of her life. As a printmaker, this marks Fieo's 11th solo exhibition. The works span a range of techniques, stylistic choices and creative periods, but ultimately center upon what Fieo calls the "mystery of life's contrasting forces."

Wheaton and Norton officials have teamed up to improve safety on campus and in town. Through a program called Citizen CPR, Wheaton's peer health advocates, Norton Emergency Medical Service staff and Norton High School faculty will work together to train all Norton high school students in CPR, which can double a cardiac victim's chances of surviving. Wheaton's resident advisors also will receive the training.

On Friday, September 26, the college will celebrate the 199th birthday of Eliza Baylies Wheaton, the principal founder of Wheaton Female Seminary. The event, which begins at 1 p.m. in Cole Chapel, marks the revival of Founders' Day, a tradition first celebrated in 1889 to mark the 80th birthday of Mrs. Wheaton.

Tom Farrey, a regular correspondent with ESPN's primetime newsmagazine E:60, will speak at Wheaton College on September 24 about youth sports in the United States. His talk will be at 7 p.m. in the Holman Room in Mary Lyon Hall. His book, Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of Our Children, explores the pressure on younger and younger children to excel in organized athletic competition.

The Religion Department will host scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker as the college's annual Martin Lecturer. Her address, entitled "The Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology," will take place in the Holman Room of Mary Lyon Hall at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 22.

Miss opening convocation? You can watch it online. President Ronald Crutcher delivered the keynote address, "Where Do 'The Two Cultures' Intersect?: Engaging the Sciences and Humanities in a Broader Dialogue."

On campus for three weeks as a visiting artist, internationally known sculptor Patrick Dougherty will work with Wheaton College students to create a piece of outdoor art that will be visible to passers-by on the town of Norton's busiest street.

Wheaton will welcome 420 students representing the Class of 2012 to campus on Saturday.

Wheaton College has been awarded a $700,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a program to help the next generation of college professors sharpen their teaching skills.

Plans are underway to build a state-of-the-art science center on the Wheaton campus, with construction slated to begin in March 2009.
The Center for Scientific Inquiry and Innovation will be the college's most ambitious building project to date, comprising the construction of a three-story research-and-teaching facility and renovations to the existing science center.

Ryan Letada '08 has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to go to the Philippines to research methods to reduce homelessness.

Wheaton College 2008 graduate Ryan Patch plans to bike from California to Boston to raise $50,000 to empower poor villagers in Nicaragua, where he spent time last summer creating and funding microcredit as part of his project for peace, which was funded by Wheaton.

The Class of 2008 has set a new Wheaton record for Annual Fund participation by a graduating class, with 324 seniors--90 percent of them--contributing to the senior class gift.

Graduating senior Anne Bahr was awarded a French Government Teaching Assistantship which will provide her the opportunity to teach English as a foreign language through the Academie de Dijon next year.

Graduating senior Cara Strachan wins French Government Teaching Assistantship that will allow her to spend next year teaching English to elementary level students in Provence.

Two Wheaton faculty members are heading to Africa in June to participate in faculty development seminars sponsored by the Council for International Educational Exchange (CIEE). The seminars, supported with funds through the Wheaton Office of the Provost, will help the professors enrich their classroom curriculum.

Giving the keynote address at Wheaton College's 173rd Commencement held on May 17, 2008, Wheaton alumna Katharine T. Bartlett marveled at the dramatic social, technological and scientific advances that have occurred over the past 40 years since she graduated in 1968, and called attention to how far we still have to go.