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Driven: NASCAR producer enjoys life in the fast lane
She’s gone on ride-alongs at many racetracks, but ask Andrea Pelkey ’02 whether her job has had any impact on how she handles the road, and she’ll just laugh. “My friends and family would say my...
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Newsmakers: Aaron Marks ’00
The Marks family: Amanda Marks; Ruby, 19 months; Aaron Marks; Oscar, 19 months; and Murray, 4. Public school cafeteria food can be a nutritional nightmare, but when Aaron Marks ’00 realized that his...
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Newsmakers: Nancy Cicco ’84
Nancy Cicco ’84, of York, Maine, was named the editor of the Hampton Union in January. As editor, she will be responsible for directing the coverage and setting policies for the newspaper published by...
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Dogged pursuit pays off
Michelle Riccio ’09 has won a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh grant that will allow her to fund a program that combines the rescue of shelter dogs with the rehabilitation of prison inmates. It’s a pet project...
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Professor Liang helps launch academic organization
Geographically separated only by the narrow Strait of Gibraltar—and closely linked politically, religiously, culturally and economically for centuries—North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula have long...
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Four professors receive NEH awards
Four Wheaton professors have been awarded more than $200,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Professors Michael Drout (and his research team members), Yuen-Gen Liang,...
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Nadila Yusuf ’11
Nadila Yusuf ’11 says that leadership and teaching have been constants in her life, starting in high school. During those years, as she worked through her own cultural and religious identity crisis as...
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Erin Ryan ’11
Erin Ryan ’11 discovered her life’s passion in a sixth grade social studies class. The 12-year-old from Craftsbury, Vt., knew she wanted to help build peace in the world after several community members...
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Merretta Dickinson ’12
Merretta Dickinson ’12, a double major in anthropology and classics, found her true passion thousands of miles from home, working with schoolchildren in Namibia. “I discovered that I have a passion for...
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Kate Cronin ’11
Kate Cronin ’11, of Baton Rouge, La., will take her lifelong fascination with the written word and the art of storytelling to Argentina, where she, as a Fulbright scholar, will spend the year teaching...
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Food, God and scholarship
Professor cooks up a translation, savors connections For Professor of Religion Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, the connection between food and religion is the main ingredient in academic research and...
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A robot, Beowulf and algorithms
What summer vacation? The work at Wheaton doesn’t stop when the semester ends in May. Many students (and even recent graduates) continue their scholarly pursuits on campus. These students spent summer...
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Exploring cinema through a bigger lens
Talitha Espiritu, assistant professor of English and coordinator of Wheaton’s journalism studies minor, teaches “Introduction to Film Studies,” “World Cinema” and “Third Cinema.” A former journalist in...
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A new focus on film and media
Want to know the meaning of “amphisbaena”? Go to wordia.com, and not only can you read the definition, but you also can watch a video of a professor explaining it and his first encounter with the word...
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Professor wins fellowship to Senegal
Over the centuries, France has produced some of the world’s greatest writers. Today, many of the most exciting authors writing in French come from other parts of the world—notably, the French Antilles...
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Be a part of the story
Marjorie Gelb Jones ’62 President, Class of ’62 Author, Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition (Ibis Press, 2008) Retired professor of history, Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Instructor, Sing Sing...
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Helping readers uncover good stories
The advent of e-readers has revolutionized how people read. In seconds, readers can have a new book in hand. What has not changed is the fact that they have to know that a book exists before they can...
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Shaking it up: Gianni Cionchi’s original twist on the restaurant biz
When Gianni Cionchi describes a dish on the menu at FishTag, one of the Manhattan restaurants he runs, it’s clear that he appreciates the “art” in culinary arts. “This is our take on the classic...
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Around the world and back to Wheaton
Stephen Desroches ’96, Tamara Smith Tureli ’96, Kristina “Tina” Chapman Blin ’95 and Marcella Michaud Franck ’96 in Istanbul. Globalization is fast becoming the norm for life in the 21st century. Never...
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History major combs through correspondence for clues to the past
John Winthrop’s name is famously synonymous with the Puritans who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But a wide-ranging research project by Jacob Pomerantz ’12 shows the Pilgrim father’s influence...
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