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An Acid Test for Polar Ice

Professor of Chemistry Matt Evans uses ice core samples from Greenland and Antarctica to study how gases migrate through polar ice, a potentially useful measurement…

Beautiful Words for Beautiful Girls

This past October, Professor of English Lisa Lebduska’s short story “Belle Ragazze” was published in the Tishman Review.

Student Businesses Take Flight

Students in Professor Donna Marchand’s Fundamentals of Business course presented their completed business plans to the campus in the Balfour Hood Atrium.

Applying Mathematical Concepts to Elections – the “Geometry of Redistricting”

Tommy Ratliff, professor of mathematics and economics, speaks about his participation in the “Geometry to Redistricting” workshop sponsored by the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group…

Cosmopolitan Post-nationalists – New Approaches to Hispanic Literature

Francisco de Alba, professor of Hispanic Studies, contributes chapter entitled “Cosmopolitan Post Nationalists: The Case of Virgilio Piñera and Wifredo Lam” to the recently published…

Expediting and Exploring Interdisciplinary Practice Worldwide

Jessie Knowlton, assistant professor of biology, recently publishes the collaboratively produced article “Barriers and Solutions to Conducting Large International, Interdisciplinary Research Projects” in the journal…

Calling all lovers of texts and tech

Calling all lovers of texts and tech: WED, Nov. 15, 3:30 pm (csLab, SC 1315)

A New Method of Learning

Vicki Bartolini, professor of education, and E. Patrick Rashleigh, data visualization expert, co-author “Transforming a Reggio-Inspired Documentation Assignment Using VoiceThread, an Online Collaborative Tool” for…

“You Can’t Belong Anywhere Else”

Scott Gelber, associate professor of education, publishes “‘You Can’t Belong Anywhere Else’: Postsecondary Aspirations of Rural Students in the Postwar Era,” this past November in…

Freddie Mercado

The Creative Writing Program and the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH) proudly present performance artist and painter Freddie Mercado.

Medical Humanities Summer Institute

Co-directors of the WIIH 2016-17 Prof. Gabriela Torres and Prof. Montserrat Pérez attend the Medical Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Miami.

The WIIH at the 2016 Celebration of the Humanities

On Thursday, October 6, WIIH co-director Professor Montserrat Pérez Toribio along with two current Wheaton students Gavriel Cohn and Pia Parisi-Marcoux attended the 2016 Celebration…