David PesciPhysics Associate Professor Starr and a colleague solve a long-standing materials science problem
New information about a WWI African American private may move a Medal of Honor case forward
Olivia DrakeIshita Mukerji, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, and dean of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics division, received a grant for $6,750 from the National Sciences Foundation. The grant is part of the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates, which provides funding for faculty to work with an undergraduate student. The award is supporting research on “Structure and Function of Holliday Junctions Complexed with Proteins Probed by Flourescence and UV Raman Spectroscopic Methods.”
The Green Street Arts Center received a grant for $3,000 from the Bank of America Thomas J. Atkins Memorial Trust Fund in 2011. The one-year grant provided funding for scholarships to the afterschool arts and sciences program.
Wesleyan’s Center for the Arts received a grant worth $5,000 from the New England Foundation of the Arts on April 20, 2011. The grant supported the National Dance Project “Chunky Move" in 2012.
Limiting financial aid and pell grants, and increased focus on specialization is diluting higher education
Lauren B. Dachs Symposium, "Protecting Great Apes" brings together conservation, ethics, research
Even under harsh regimens, recent nonviolent uprisings have produced an impressive success rate
Former Wesleyan President Douglas J. Bennet ’59 has been named a 2011 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). As one of 212 new AAAS members, Bennet joins one of the world’s most prestigious honorary societies and leading centers for independent policy research. "It is a privilege to honor these men and women for their extraordinary individual accomplishments," said Leslie Berlowitz, Academy President and William T. Golden Chair. "The knowledge and expertise of our members give the Academy a unique capacity - and responsibility - to provide practical policy solutions to the pressing challenges of the day.…
The master of "speculative fiction" discusses her new book, her process and her life as a writer
The jazz original draws from such diverse influences as Coltrane, Brubeck and Stockhausen.
Despite the public yelling and hyperbole, deals of political expediency likely to be struck