Prints from college art collection featured on WGBH

Wheaton's Japanese woodblock prints were featured on WGBH's Greater Boston on May 23. The show highlighted Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) in Andover, Mass., where 49 of Wheaton's 100 Asian prints are undergoing conservation.

Susanne Gramly of NEDCC is working on preserving the Wheaton prints, which she called impressive. "There are many well-known Japanese artists in this collection with many wonderful colors," she said. "They are quite attractive."

The prints are an indispensable teaching tool in Professor Sean McPherson's art history classes, "Print Cultures of Early Modern Japan" and "Art in East Asia." McPherson emphasizes the importance of using tangible art in his classes. (More)

English Professor Michael Drout wins McIntosh Fellowship to support scholarship on medieval poetry

English Professor Michael Drout, a nationally known medievalist, has been selected as a Millicent C. McIntosh Fellow for 2006 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The $15,000 award will support Drout's continuing scholarship on tenth century English literature.

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Four seniors win French teaching assistantships

Four members of Wheaton College's Class of 2006 will teach English in France and its territories next year after winning French Teaching Assistantships through the Fulbright program and the Institute of International Education in Washington, D.C.

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Cokie Roberts delivers Wheaton commencement address

Journalist and author Cokie Roberts told the 385 members of Wheaton College's Class of 2006 that while it might be popular to denigrate and disrespect the government, it is a dangerous sentiment because government binds us together as a nation.

"We have no nationhood except our government," said Roberts, the award-winning senior news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR) and political commentator for ABC News. "We have no common ethnicity, race, history, religion, even language--despite what the Senate is up to right now. If you look at what's happening in the rest of the world today, you understand the miracle of this nation."



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