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The Water Balloon Challenge

Watch Wheaton College’s introductory physics class leave their lab and put theory to the test.

Professor to lecture on the Spanish Civil War.

Professor Fernández de Alba was invited by the Spanish Department at Bryn Mawr College to lecture on the Spanish Civil War.

Women’s Studies Mixer

October 22, 2012 Do you want to learn more about Wheaton’s acclaimed Women’s Studies major? Join Women’s Studies majors and faculty members at this semester’s…

Sex, Money, and Equality: Why Should Men and Women Care about this Election?

November 1, 2012 Come and hear Gayle Goldin, Strategic Initiatives Officer at the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, speak about women’s rights in relation to…

Philosophy Club Speaker, Tuesday 10/16 @ 7 pm

The Phil Club was delighted to host a speaker on 10/16. Ian Blaustein at Boston University gave a talk entitled “On Making a Fig in…

Maria Cabral ’12

See what Maria has to say about her internship at the Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights.

Maria Cabral ’12 at the Feminist Boot Camp

Wheaton Alumna and Women’s Studies major Maria Cabral spent the first week of her summer in New York at the Feminist Boot Camp summer session.

Cold as ice

A new study by Prof. Geoffrey Collins and colleagues in the Journal of Geophysical Research shows that water ice gets much harder at very cold…

Maya Ambroise ’13

Maya received a Wheaton Fellowship to intern this past summer at the Chennai Care Foundation, a social service agency for children and their families, located…

Professor Bartolini’s Students Play to Learn

Watch a video of students studying science through play in Issues in Early Education and Care (ED 375)

Schopenhauer and Toni Morrison on happiness

Students in “What is the Good Life?” an FYS course taught by Professor Partridge, met at the Mars Science Center outdoor classroom on Thursday, September…

Women’s Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World wins award

The volume, Women’s Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World (Ashgate 2011) has been chosen by the Award Committee of the Society for…