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Wheaton Pre-College program launches

Academics

The Wheaton Pre-College program offers a four-week academic program that allows high school students the opportunity to experience Wheaton and gain college credit.

Film Festival Success – Spring 2023 Edition

Academics
Film & New Media Studies

Wheaton filmmakers and recent alumni have had a successful start to the 2023 Film Festival Circuit.

Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

Academics
On-Campus Announcements
President

Karen McCormack, Associate Provost and Dorothy Reed Williams Professor of the Social Sciences, has graciously agreed to serve as Interim Provost for the 2023-24 academic…

Wheaties Wooed By Sports

Business & Management

Students and faculty attended the Worcester Sports Management Summit along with almost 700 other students interested in careers in the sports industry.

“Hit the Books!” Wheaton CounterCanon Anthropology Game Makes Theory Fun

Anthropology

Students in Dr. Bastian’s Anthropological Theory designed a game to make learning Theory fun and engaging.

Prevalence of Saccharomyces Yeast in the Wheaton Woods

Academic Festival
Academics
Biology

We collected yeast, a single celled fungus, from the Wheaton Woods to determine the prevalence of saccharomyces species in Massachusetts. The data we collected will…

Global Learning: Exploring Puerto Rico and Climate Change through the Lens of Culture

Academic Festival
Hispanic Studies

This how my four years at Wheaton culminated into a project that ultimately changed the way I think about the world.

The Power of Learning a Foreign Language in the Context of a Liberal Arts Education

Academic Festival
Academics
Hispanic Studies

Landing on a capstone project topic wasn’t an easy task for me. There was no obvious choice. I wanted it to be meaningful while connecting…

Power, Sex, and Gender in the Workplace

Academic Festival
Academics
Career Services
Sociology

The “Power, Sex, and Gender in the Workplace,” panel is a space where students can come and learn about the realities of sexual assault and…

Global Honors: The Power in 3: Celia Cruz, Selena and Rosalía and New York City, Miami and Cleveland

Academic Festival
Academics
Hispanic Studies

My global project applies transculturation, musical crossover, bilingualism, and productive frictions to Celia Cruz, Rosalía, and Selena. My reflection portion of the Global Honors focuses…

Unpacking the Food of Food Assistance

Academic Festival
Sociology

There is a gap in knowledge of how food assistance as an institutionalized system shapes what food even makes it to pantry shelves. Using in-depth…

Guatemala’s Gender Norms Seen Through Film

Academic Festival
Academics
Hispanic Studies
Women's and Gender Studies

For my senior capstone project in Hispanic Studies I looked at the relationship between the film of director Jayro Bustamante and gender norms in Guatemala.…