December 2004
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An ear for leadership
A background in chamber music provides excellent training for academic leaders, according to Wheaton President Ronald A. Crutcher in an essay published in the Chronicle of Higher Education this month. "The ability to collaborate, as well as the willingness to lead and the wisdom to know when to assert oneself, are paramount for both a chamber-music performer and a college president," he writes. Read the full essay online.
Prize-winning fiction
Sue Standing, professor of English, has won a 2004 Pushcart Prize for her short story, "Fast Sunday," published in the small press journal, Ploughshares. The director of the college's creative writing program, Standing has published her poetry in a number of literary magazines and has received several notable grants to support her work. (More)
Finals crunch? Cookies to munch!
The students of Emerson House residence hall have devised a creative way of raising money for the New Hope Battered Women's Program this holiday season: a milk-and-cookies delivery service during finals week. On the nights of December 15 and 16, these college bakers are delivering Santa's favorite treat to their fellow students as they prepare for exams. (More)
Professor Krebs to edit higher education magazine
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has named Paula Krebs, chair of the Wheaton English Department, as the next editor of Academe, the organization's bimonthly magazine of issues in higher education. Krebs will assume the editorship in March 2005. (More)
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Not your typical photo contest
Christopher English '03 and Joshua Nordberg '00 won an honorable mention in the Olympus BioScapes 2004 Digital Imaging Competition, an international contest for scientific imaging. Their brilliantly hued image of a human epithelial cell in mitosis was one of 35 winners among more than 700 entries. "This contest really shows the art in science," said Assistant Professor of Biology Bob Morris, who directs Wheaton's Imaging Center for Undergraduate Collaboration (ICUC). "I will be challenging the current ICUC staff to top Josh and Chris's work. Then we can enter this competition too!" Nordberg is currently earning his Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMass Medical School, where English works as a research associate. (View their winning image online.)
Photo of the Month
New England is on the brink of winter, but it's summertime in Wollongong, Australia, where Professor of Computer Science Mark LeBlanc is serving as Wheaton's director for global education for Australia and New Zealand. (View photograph.)
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