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Wilson College recently announced the winners of the college’s 8th annual juried high school student art exhibition. The top three winners are all students at Greencastle-Antrim High School.

Wilson’s dance ensemble, Orchesis, will present its fall performance at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9 and 10, with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.

Author Alicia Drumgoole will read from a selection of her works of fiction as part of the Wilson College Writers Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, in the college’s Hankey Center. The 30-minute reading is free and open to the public.

On Oct. 20, 2018, the Wilson College Board of Trustees approved identifying Wilson graduates as alumni instead of alumnae/i in all institutional messaging and publications. 

The Wilson College Veterinary Medical Technology Club will hold its popular dog washes from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 3 and 4, in the college veterinary building near the main entrance to campus. The dog washes are open to the public.

Wilson College will hold a reception from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, to mark the opening of an exhibition of art created by area high school students.

Speaker Chad T. Lower will discuss some of the latest developments at NASA from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in the John Stewart Memorial Library at Wilson College. The talk is free and open to the public.

Wilson College will host its annual Arts Day - an educational, fun-filled day of free events that encourages everyone to appreciate and celebrate interdisciplinary arts - on Wednesday, Oct. 10. A highlight this year is the return of steamroller printmaking. Arts Day, which is held at locations all over the campus, is free and open to the public.

Wilson Instructor of English Matthew Diltz McBride will open the college’s annual Writers Series with a reading from his book of poetry, City of Incandescent Light, at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, in Warfield Hall’s Allen Auditorium.

A total of 1,499 students are enrolled in Wilson College for the fall semester, the most in the college’s 149-year history.