Olivia DrakeMelanye Price, assistant professor of government, was a featured guest speaker for the University of Nevada's College of Liberal Arts on April 23. She was broadcast on 88.9 KNPR Nevada Public Radio. In a lecture titled "Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African-American Public Opinion," Price spoke about ways African-Americans have come to understand Black Nationalism, an ideology important to the Black Power movement of the 1960s.
Carl T. West ’11 and Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, are co-authors of the article "Short-time Loschmidt gap in dynamical systems with critical chaos," which was accepted for publication in Physical Review E Rapid Communications.
Kennedy spoke to students in Professor of Art David Schorr's classes. Schorr is pictured at left.
Eco-activist. filmmaker and reality television star Shalini Kantayya spoke about the global water crisis during Wesleyan’s Earth Day Celebration April 15. Her production company, 7th Empire Media, is committed to using media to give a powerful voice to the unheard. Kantayya captured the attention of the nation during the television series “On the Lot,” a reality show created by Steven Spielberg for the purpose of finding Hollywood’s next great director. Out of over 12,000 filmmakers, Kantayya was the only woman to finish in the top 10. (Photos by Alexandra Portis '09)
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Abigail Hornstein, assistant professor of economics, chaired a session and presented her papers "Where A Contract Is Signed Determines Its Value: Chinese Provincial Variation In Utilized vs. Contracted FDI Flows" and "Corporate Capital Budgeting Decisions and Information Sharing" (the second of these co-authored with Minyuan Zhao) at the International Industrial Organization Conference at Northeastern University on April 4.
Norman Shapiro, professor of romance languages and literature, translated the book To Speak, to Tell, by Sabine Sicaud (1913-1928). The book was published by Black Widow Press in April 2009. The 175-page book features Sicaud's original French poems side by side with Shapiro's English translations.