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Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

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

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

Sharing recommendations from the Experiential Learning Task Force

The plan connects experiential learning with academics and cocurricular life, and engages alums throughout. The goal is to assist students in designing their Wheaton experience,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.…

The Unseen Diversity in Wheaton Woods

The leaf litter that coats the forest floor is full of biodiversity. After research, we find that Wheaton Woods holds new and uncharacterized filamentous fungi.