Olivia DrakeMichael Weir, director of the Hughes Program in the Life Sciences, professor of biology, received a grant worth $328,200 from the National Institutes of Health on Sept. 19. Weir will use the funds to support a study titled, "Proteomic Analysis of Translation Initiation of Yeast," through August 2011.
Constance Leidy, assistant professor of mathematics, received a grant for $130,436 from the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematics Science on Sept. 9. The grant will support a project titled "Non-commutative Techniques in Knot Theory" through August 2014.
Wesleyan's Center for Prison Education Program at the Cheshire Correctional Intuition, received a grant worth $5,000 from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving on Sept. 14. The grant will support the general operating expenses for the program.
Benjamin TraversArya Alizadeh '13 comes to Wesleyan from Boston. He studies history, economics, and is in the engineering combined plan program with Columbia University. He is an avid rower on the Wesleyan Men's Crew Team, serves as coordinator for the Wesleyan Student Assembly, shoots photographs for the Argus newspaper, and is a Wesleyan Tour Guide. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvf04PuQ5bc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
David LowThis fall, Wesleyan University’s Center for Film Studies will sponsor a special film and speaker series titled WOMEN AND FILM. This series is dedicated to work made by women. Each installment of the series will feature a movie helmed by a female filmmaker, to be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker herself. Made possible by special support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, WOMEN AND FILM will comprise a wide variety of cinematic experiences, including short films, documentaries and a romantic feature film. “I am thrilled that the Academy is sponsoring WOMEN AND FILM because I’ve…
[youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahtIQZKmuGs&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] View dozens more videos on the Wesleyan YouTube Channel.
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Tsampikos Kottos, associate professor of physics, received a grant worth $140,121 from the National Science Foundation on Sept. 1. The grant will support a project titled "IDR:Novel Photonic Materials and Devices based on Non-Hermitian Optics" through August 2014. Kottos is collaborating with faculty from Southern Methodist University, University of Central Florida, University of Arkansas and Yale University.
Bill HolderWesleyan is open and classes will be held on Wednesday. The situation with power and heat on campus remains fluid...
With the restoration of power to the core of the Wesleyan campus, the university will reopen and classes will resume on Wednesday, November 2.
At 10:00 pm last night we were able to restore power to the central core of the Wesleyan campus, including most classrooms and the residence halls.
We are working with local officials and our own engineers and are hopeful that power will be restored to the central campus area sometime this evening.