May 2003
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Wheaton is blooming with national scholars
Seven Wheaton students have won competitive national awards so far this spring. These outstanding scholars continue what has become a proud tradition: Over the past decade, Wheaton students have earned more than 30 such prestigious honors. Wheaton's five Fulbright scholars--seniors Sabrina Denault, Emily Hyde, Megan Luce, Kirsten Stajich and 2002 graduate Anna Venishnick--will be heading off to Europe and Asia to teach English in their host countries before returning to pursue graduate study. Click here to read more about them, as well as our Harry S. Truman Fellow, Adar Cohen '04, and our Morris K. Udall Scholar, Jared Duval '05.
Take it from the top, maestro
Some of the nation's most outstanding young classical musicians delighted a Wheaton audience on April 10, 2003, when the weekly radio show "From the Top" taped the program live in the Weber Theatre. The Public Radio International program features solo and ensemble performances by musicians ages 9 to 18, along with interviews and comic sketches. Tune in to Boston's WGBH-FM (89.7) at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 31, to hear the Wheaton College recording, or check the show's Web site to find a station that broadcasts the program in your area.
We love a parade
... of honors students, that is. Wheaton's own Thesis Parade (a tradition since 2000) is a freewheeling celebration of scholarship--and spontaneity. The parade steps off from the Science Center at 11:45 a.m. on Monday, May 12, as the senior honors students march, cartwheel and dance their way around the Dimple, bearing their honors theses to the registrar's office--accompanied by campus canines, frolicking faculty and merry music makers, trumpeting the parade theme, "March of the Acid-Free Paper." If you're in the neighborhood, feel free to join in (preferably wearing a creative variation on academic regalia). Or, if you can't make it to this year's parade, take a look at last year's slide show.
Bookshelf
Scums, slimes, felts, and bubbles
Studying the microbial world can be downright ... infectious. In A Field Guide to Bacteria, a readable new handbook from Cornell University Press, Professor of Biology Betsey Dexter Dyer '75 shows how to observe these microscopic creatures through the "field marks" of their activities everywhere--in the crackling sounds of water lilies, the green slime coating a mollusck shell, and the pitted surface of a stone monument, to start. "Without bacteria, the ecological wheels would cease to turn," Professor Dyer writes. Her practical guidebook (available at bookstores and directly from the publisher) illustrates the essential role of bacteria in the natural world.
Athletics
Four Wheaton teams in NCAA tournament action
The women's lacrosse team has advanced to NCAA Division III tournament play for the first time since 1986. The softball Lyons clinched their third consecutive NEWMAC championship in April, propelling themselves to NCAA action. And on the men's diamond, the Lyons snatched their fifth consecutive NEWMAC crown to move on to the NCAA. Check our Web site for the latest schedules and results.
Meanwhile, the women's track team is heading to the outdoor nationals the weekend following commencement, hoping to earn their third consecutive title. Folks on campus are still celebrating their fifth consecutive indoor national championship in March. You can watch them win during a CBS Sports special on NCAA winter sports, scheduled to air on Sunday, May 25.
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