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	<title>The Wesleyan Connection &#187; Achievements</title>
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		<title>Meyer Wins Book Award from Academic Society</title>
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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>Alejandro Honored for Contribution to the Arts</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/alejandro-honored-for-contribution-to-the-arts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pedro Alejandro, associate professor of dance, is a recipient of the C. Newton Shenck III Award for a &#8220;lifetime achievement in and contribution to the arts.&#8221;
Alejandro received the award from the Arts Council of Greater New Haven board of directors. He was mentioned in a Nov. 9 article in The Hartford Courant.
Alejandro was featured in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slotkin Talks about Racial Divide in Hartford Courant</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/slotkin-talks-about-racial-divide-in-hartford-courant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cultural historian Richard Slotkin, the Olin Professor of English, Emeritus, is featured in an Oct. 25 Hartford Courant article titled &#8221; Wesleyan Professor Sees 1864 Civil War Battle As Microcosm Of Racial Divide.&#8221; The article focuses on Slotkin&#8217;s most recent book , No Quarter: The Battle of the Crater, 1864.
The title of the book references [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCullough &#8217;10 Featured in The New York Times</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/mccullough-10-featured-in-the-new-york-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angus McCullough ’10 was mentioned in a Nov. 1 New York Times article titled &#8220;Grand Visions for a Faded Bronx Boulevard.&#8221;
McCullough is participating in an exhibit titled “Intersections: The Grand Concourse Beyond 100,” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. A result of a nine-month competition sponsored by the museum and the Design Trust for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faculty, Students Present Work at Geological Society Meeting</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/faculty-students-present-work-at-geological-society-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several Wesleyan faculty, graduate students and alumni participated in the 2009 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Oct. 18-21 in Portland, Ore.
Suzanne O&#8217;Connell, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, director of the Service Learning Center, presented a research poster and delivered a presentation titled &#8220;Techniques and Tools for Effective Recruitment, Retention and promotion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duruöz Releases New CD on Guitar Music from Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cem Duruöz, guitar private lessons teacher, will present the music of his native country, Turkey, in a CD release event at 5 p.m. Nov. 15. at the Milford Center for the Arts, 40 Railroad Avenue South in Milford, Conn. The CD is titled &#8220;Treasures of Anatolia: Guitar Music from Turkey&#8221; and is released from Tutti Music.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upward Bound Co-Founder Honored for Community Service</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/upward-bound-co-founder-honored-for-community-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Willard M. McRae, co-founder of Wesleyan&#8217;s Upward Bound Program, recently received Liberty Bank’s ninth annual Community Diversity Award. The Community Diversity Award was introduced in 2001 to recognize people who build bridges between those of different races, economic backgrounds, faiths, cultures and capabilities, according to the bank.
McRae was awarded at a reception among area dignitaries at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cohan Participates in Darwin Conference at University of Chicago</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Cohan, professor of biology, delivered a presentation titled &#8220;Darwin vs. Mayr on the Origin of Bacterial Species,&#8221; during a Darwin conference, celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin&#8217;s birth. The event was held Oct. 29-31 at the University of Chicago. Cohan joined other evolutionary biologists, historians and philosophers who connected their work directly with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students, Families Help Raise 20,000 Pounds of Food for Day of Caring</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/students-families-help-raise-20000-pounds-of-food-for-day-of-caring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell&#8217;s &#8220;Day of Caring &#38; Compassion,&#8221; Nov. 6, Wesleyan students and their families helped collect 20,000 pounds of food.
&#8220;The goal of the statewide food drive was to replenish the state’s food banks and food pantries for the holidays, especially as the number of people seeking food-assistance has increased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yohe Quoted in The New York Times</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/yohe-quoted-in-the-new-york-times/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2009/11/12/yohe-quoted-in-the-new-york-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Bartlett Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary Yohe, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, was quoted in a Nov. 3 New York Times article titled &#8220;Obama Administration Weighs Costs of Doing Nothing.&#8221;
The article examined the Obama Administration&#8217;s inaction on significant climate change measures and how it is &#8220;struggling to reach its own conclusion,&#8221; a stark difference from the President&#8217;s campaign rhetoric of [...]]]></description>
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