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New Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs

The appointment of Touba Ghadessi, an early modern historian of art and of anatomy and an advocate for the humanities, as Provost and Vice President…

Through the Student Lens – Leadership program helps students tap their potential and lead both in and out of the classroom

How does the college help students brimming with leadership potential tap into their skills? Meet a Weiss Women Leadership Program participant and find out how…

Next Steps on Campus COVID-19 Protocols

As we shift away from an emergency response model into more permanent and adaptable management of operations going forward, the COVID-19 Task Force is implementing…

Honors Convocation 2022

Assistant Professor of Political Science Jonathan Chow delivered the keynote address “Finding our Passion in a Time of Grief at Wheaton College’s Honors Convocation.

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.