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	<title>The Wesleyan Connection &#187; David Pesci</title>
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		<title>Meyer Wins Book Award from Academic Society</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/16/meyer-wins-book-award-from-academic-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Priscilla Meyer, professor of Russian language and literature, was awarded the University of Southern California Book Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) during their annual conference. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia in the field of literary and cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Questions with…Ethan Kleinberg</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/5-questions-with%e2%80%a6ethan-kleinberg/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/5-questions-with%e2%80%a6ethan-kleinberg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the College of Letters (COL) celebrates its 50th anniversary, we asked Ethan Kleinberg, associate professor of history and letters, director of the COL, about his life in two departments, his views on interdisciplinary teaching, how this impacts his own scholarship, and the future of the COL.
Q. How did you end up with a joint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Questions with&#8230;Mary Alice Haddad</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/5-questions-with-mary-alice-haddad/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/10/27/5-questions-with-mary-alice-haddad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The candidate for issue’s &#8220;5 Questions with&#8230;&#8221; is Mary Alice Haddad, assistant professor of government, assistant professor of East Asian studies. She provides some insight into the recent, dramatic change in the Japanese government.
Q: What are your primary areas of study and research?
MAH: My primary area of research has been on civil society and democracy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Skillman Speaks on State of the Economy to WNPR</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/09/22/skillman-speaks-on-state-of-the-economy-to-wnpr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gil Skillman, chair and professor of economics, was a featured guest on WNPR’s “Where We Live” discussion on the general state of the economy one year after the demise of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the recession.
Skillman and two other economists discuss what led to the collapse and point out some of the danger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Questions With&#8230;Edward Moran</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/09/22/5-questions-with-edward-moran/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/09/22/5-questions-with-edward-moran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[5 Questions is a new feature in The Wesleyan Connection that will ask faculty members &#8211; surprise! &#8211; five questions about their work and activities.
This issue, the questions go to Edward Moran, chair and associate professor of astronomy and director of the Van Vleck Observatory. His primary area of study is black holes. This summer he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanley Lebergott Dies at 91</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/08/06/stanley-lebergott-dies-at-91/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stanley Lebergott, the Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, Emeritus, died July 24 after a long illness. He was 91 years old.
Lebergott began his career as a public servant, working for 20 years in the U.S. Department of Labor, the International Labor Office, and the U.S. Bureau of the Budget. He joined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF, NIH Support Burke&#8217;s Development, Evolution Research</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/07/14/nsf-nih-support-development-evolution-research/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/07/14/nsf-nih-support-development-evolution-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ann Burke, associate professor of biology, recently received a three-year, $395,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the development and evolution of the shoulder girdle using transgenic mice, frog and salamander.
The mice will be generated in collaboration with a lab at the University of Michigan and will allow Burke and her associates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angle, Gallarotti, Gottschalk Promoted, Willis Appointed to Endowed Professorship</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/07/14/tenure-2/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/07/14/tenure-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wesleyan University has announced the promotion to full professor, effective July 1, 2009, of the following members of the faculty.
Stephen Angle, professor of philosophy, came to Wesleyan in 1994. He has served as director of the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, co-directed the NEH summer seminar &#8220;Traditions into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burke Awarded NSF, NIH Grants</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/07/14/burke-awarded-nsf-nih-grants/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/07/14/burke-awarded-nsf-nih-grants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ann Burke, associate professor of biology, received a three-year, $395,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the development and evolution of the shoulder girdle using transgenic mice, frog and salamander. She also received a two-year $100,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to use the same amphibian systems (salamander and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Board Affirms Newly Tenured, Promoted Faculty</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/06/04/board-affirms-newly-tenured-promoted-faculty/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/06/04/board-affirms-newly-tenured-promoted-faculty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pesci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wesleyan University Board of Trustees affirmed the following appointments to the faculty, effective July 1, 2009:
Promotion with tenure:
Yuriy Kordonskiy, associate professor of theater, was appointed assistant professor at Wesleyan in 2002.
Previously he was visiting assistant professor at George Washington University. He has served as head of directing in the Theatermakers program at the O’Neill [...]]]></description>
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