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During a 100 kilometer pilgrimage across Spain in June 2010, Kristin McQueeney purchased a silver scallop shell slide to wear on her necklace. Little did she know that shell carried a coincidental Wesleyan connection. The scallop, which represents the pilgrimage across Europe to Santiago de Compostela, also appears on the Wesleyan crest. According to Valerie Gillispie, assistant university archivist, the Wesleyan crest is based on the Methodist founder John Wesley's family coat-of-arms. Wesley was a descendent of the Wellysleye/Wellesley family, whose crest bears a cross decorated with five scallop shells. "Those who made pilgrimages across Europe, or from the port to the…
Wesleyan's Animal Studies hosted the Animals and Society Institute-Wesleyan Animal Studies Fellowship Program Conference June 27-30 in Usdan University Center. The conference is the culminating event in the first annual ASI-WAS Fellowship Program, which brings to campus a broad range of scholars studying human-animal relations. Lori Gruen, chair and professor of philosophy, and Kari Weil, university professor of letters, co-organized the conference. Photos of the conference faculty, guests and ASI fellows are below: (more…)
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The Davison Art Center's exhibition catalog, “Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artists’ Books by Robin Price, Publisher” (DAC 2010) has won third place in the 2011 New England Museum Association Publication Award Competition in the category “Exhibition Catalogues over $10.” The catalog will be featured in the summer issue of NEMA News. The catalog was organized by Suzy Taraba, university archivist and head of Special Collections and Archives. The original exhibition at the DAC was co-curated by Suzy Taraba and Clare Rogan, curator of the DAC. "We are absolutely delighted by this award," Rogan says. First place in this category…
Guy Geyer '13 received the General John A. Wickham Scholarship, awarded by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's Educational Foundation. Geyer, a physics major, will receive a $2,000 scholarship. Candidate must be a U.S. citizen and working toward a degree in electrical, computer, chemical, systems or aerospace engineering; computer science; physics; mathematics; science or mathematics education; technology management; or management information systems. An overall GPA of 3.5 on 4.0 scale or better is required. General John A. Wickham, born June 25, 1928, was United States Army Chief of Staff from 1983 to 1987. Geyer also received honorable mention for a Goldwater…
Ron Jenkins, professor of theater, was interviewed about his prison theater project for a Radio Australia program on June 24. The broadcast was aired on their pacific network in Australia, Indonesia, Cambodia and East Timor. A transcript of the interview is below: Theatre program with a difference in Bali, Indonesia The Kerobokanprison has become synonymous with the trials and convictions of Australian drug traffickers Schapelle Corby, and members of the Bali 9. But now a professor of theatre from the United States is running a theater program as part of efforts to change the atmosphere of the jail. Presenter Nasya…
Four Wesleyan women faculty members are featured in the June 30 Women in Academia Report. According to the article, "Wesleyan University, the highly regarded liberal arts institution in Middletown, Connecticut, has promoted three women to full professor. Another woman was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor." Lori Gruen, who has taught at Wesleyan since 2000, was promoted to full professor of philosophy. Her research focuses on the ethical treatment of animals. Professor Gruen holds a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. Magda Teter was promoted to full professor of history and named the Jeremy Zwelling Professor…
Holly Capelo, a graduate student in the Astronomy Department, wrote a contribution to "astrobites," an e-newsletter for students and others interested in astronomy. In her article, titled "Careers, Like Space Missions, are Tricky: How a Master’s Degree Can Help," Capelo writes about her experience as a M.A. student at Wesleyan: "In general the program is quite flexible: the curriculum includes a baseline number of astronomy courses and the rest of the course work is custom fit for individual students’ backgrounds and goals; often the candidates have undergraduate degrees in related fields, such as math, physics and computer science, and acquire…
Eric GershonIn a June 30 “Modern Love” column in The New York Times, Lindsay Abrams ’12 writes that she “designed my ideal boyfriend in a dorm room voodoo ceremony orchestrated by my roommate…” "…My specifications were that he be tall, scruffy and a bit older than me. I preferred that he major in math or the sciences to offset my artistic nature, and that he like to watch TV with me at night. I know that vague characteristics like height and age do not true love make, but I was warned that being too specific on a campus of only 2,900…
An article by Brian Glenn, visiting assistant professor of government, was published on salon.com July 4. In the piece, titled "What is a 'constitutional conservative' anyway?," Glenn writes, "For conservative politicians, the name signals that they are identifying as Tea Party members, which means limiting government, balancing the federal budget, lowering taxes, ending redistribution from the wealthier to the poor, assigning a central position for God in the lives of Americans, even in courthouses and public schools, and asserting the right to bear arms. While God will always be given top billing, one gets the sense that lowering taxes and…