Olivia DrakeRichard Kendall ’74, a senior partner in the Los Angeles office of the law firm Irell & Manella, represented the National Resources Defense Council in a case involving whales and the U.S. Navy that recently was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Environmental groups had contended that the Navy’s use of underwater sonar was harming whales and other marine animals. The case arose when the Navy skipped an environmental impact statement for anti-submarine exercises planned from 2007 to 2009. The NRDC sued, and Los Angeles district court restricted the Navy’s use of active sonar. Later, a U.S. appeals court affirmed…
The Wesleyan University Press and the Center for the Arts have received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants in December 2008. Wesleyan University Press received a $35,000 grant to help publish the work of the following poets: Kazim Ali, Rae Armantrout, Adrian Blevins, Kamau Brathwaite, Brenda Hillman, Ed Roberson, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Roberto Tejada and Tan Lin. The Center for the Arts received $10,000 grant to help fund the "Breaking Ground Dance Series and DanceMasters Weekend.
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09.04.08 Faculty, Student Study Emerging Language 09.04.08 Class of 2012 Welcomed to Wesleyan 09.04.08 Professor Scott Plous Honored for Teaching Efforts 09.04.08 Student Writes, Produces NPR Stories 09.04.08 Students Help Humanity with Open Source Software 09.04.08 Center for Humanities Fall Lecture Series Unveiled 09.04.08 U.S. Laureate Poet Kicks-Off Russell House Series 08.06.08 PIMMS Takes Math and Science Teachers Back to School 08.06.08 Researchers Get to the Core of Block Island 08.06.08 2008-09 Arts Season Kicks Off At CFA 08.06.08 Wesleyan Rideboard Links Campus Commuters 08.06.08 Students Learn about Financial Issues at Workshop 08.06.08 First Lady of Wesleyan Kay Butterfield Dies…
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A paper by Ellen Thomas, research professor of earth and environmental sciences, is listed as one of the 100 most influential papers in the earth sciences by MantlePlumes.org. Thomas's article, "Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present," was originally published in Science, 292, in 2001. Also included in the top 100 are Charles Darwin's The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, published in 1842, and British geologist Sir Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology, from 1830-33. The same paper was also identified by Thomson Reuters Scientific's Essential Science Indicators as one of the most highly cited papers…
Trash bins may find themselves down in the dumps, at least around Wesleyan’s campus. The university is replacing them - one by one - with recyclable containers in attempt to make Wesleyan a "greener" campus community. "Most everything we throw away at our desks - paper, plastic water bottles and soda cans and cardboard packaging material - is recyclable," says Jeff Miller, associate director for facilities management. "So why keep a trash can under your desk?" Miller and other members of Wesleyan's Recycling and Waste Committee, a subcommittee of Wesleyan's Sustainable Advisory Group for Environmental Stewardship (SAGES), are spearheading efforts…
Suzanna Tamminen, director of Wesleyan University Press, received a "2008 Outstanding Service to Dance Research" award from the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD). The CORD Awards were established in 1995 to recognize excellence in the field, contribute to motivating further research, and signal to the scholarly world at large that the works and individuals recognized are highly valued by those involved in dance research.
Scott Plous, professor of psychology, was quoted in a Dec. 14 issue of The Washington Post in a story titled "Choosing Not To Choose: Ever feel lost in a maze of too many options?" The article, which focused on the overwhelming abundance of life-changing decisions such as finances, health care and career moves, mentions Plous's book, The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making. "There's no question that we have more choices than ever before," Plous agreed. "And decisions are generally harder and more time-consuming when there are lots of alternatives."
Ellen Thomas, research professor of earth and environmental sciences, is a co-author of an article on the "long record of the Ca-isotope composition of seawater," published in Science Magazine Dec. 15.
Johan Varekamp, the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, is a co-editor of a special volume on "Volcanic Lakes and Environmental Impacts of Volcanic Fluids," for the for the Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Volume 178, Issue 2, published Dec. 10, 2008. He's worked on the publication for more than two years. The publication contains 17 articles including one of Varekamp's own papers titled "The volcanic acidification of glacial Lake Caviahue, Province of Neuquen, Argentina," found on pages 184-196.
Richard Grossman, professor and chair of economics, was interviewed on the National Bureau of Economic Research’s determination that the United States has been in recession since by KFAB in Omaha, Neb.; WXNT in Indianapolis, Ind., and most recently by KTRH in Houston, Texas on Dec. 2. Grossman also spoke on the recent financial crisis to the Rotary Club of East Hampton, Conn. on Dec. 3.