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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…

Finding Plato in a Bomb Shelter

Elana Weiner ’11 recently visited Wheaton and shared this update. “It’s wonderful to be a Philosopher in the desert! After graduation, I decided to spend…

Call for Papers: Undergrad Philosophy Conference

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies will host the third Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on March 8-9, 2013 at Marist College. Undergraduates are…

Philosophy Majors rock the GRE

Among all undergraduate majors, philosophy majors get the highest scores on the Verbal and Analytical Reasoning parts of the GRE. Among Humanities majors, philosophers get…

Martin Lecture Series presents Kecia Ali

September 27, 2012 The Religion Department welcomes feminist Islamic scholar and Boston University faculty member Kecia Ali, who will present a lecture entitled “Making Muhammad…

Courtney Gilman ’15

Women’s Studies major Courtney Gilman ’15 spent the summer as an intern at the Family Violence Project in Maine.

Welcome Professor Eileraas!

This fall the Women’s Studies program welcomes Karina Eileraas, Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Islamic Studies.