Olivia DrakeSeptember 24, 20101min
Steve Roslonek '93—aka "Mr. Steve" from PBS Kids and the SteveSongs band—will perform at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 23 at at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. He blends participatory songs, clever stories and great melodies for children. Roslonek's band has received several awards from parenting organizations. He formerly worked as a business and technology consultant. Tickets are $25 each, but if you join the “Tribeca PAC 10 Club” you order 10 tickets for $140. To order tickets call 212-220-1460 or go to www.tribecapac.org. To get a special Wesleyan discount mention the special Wesleyan code "WSLSS11".

Cynthia RockwellSeptember 24, 20102min
The eight portraits are larger-than-life, eight feet tall, of heroic proportions. Four of the subjects wear the baggy, bright orange garb of prisoners—which they are. The other four subjects are teens who have an incarcerated parent. In each painting, background icons—a hand grabbing the ankle, a daughter at the ocean, a zoo, family photographs from the past, a mask falling into a breaking mirror—depict the stories of these lives affected by the correctional system. The oil and acrylic portraits were produced in what San Francisco artist and teacher Evan Bissell ’05 calls a “collaborative dialogue. They were on exhibit at SOMArts…

Olivia DrakeSeptember 24, 20101min
Charles Sanislow, assistant professor in psychology, is the co-author of a publication examining psychometric characteristics of antisocial personality traits in the September issue of Psychological Assessment.  The work was carried out under the auspices of the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Study, a 10-year prospective study funded by NIMH on which Sanislow has been an investigator since it began in 1996. The article is titled "Psychometric characteristics and clinical correlates of NEO-PI-R fearless dominance and impulsive antisociality in the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study."

Olivia DrakeSeptember 24, 20101min
Kendall Hobbs, Olin reference librarian, and Diane Klare, head of reference, are the co-authors of an article titled "User Driven Design: Using Ethnographic Techniques to Plan Student Study Space," published in Technical Services Quarterly 27(4), pages 347-363, in 2010. In the article, Hobbs and Klare explain how librarians and information technologists at Wesleyan were provided with an opportunity to design a new study space for students during a library renovation. They teamed up to learn ethnographic techniques and apply them by incorporating student input into the new space, rather than making decisions based on traditional methods. Using this approach produced…

Olivia DrakeSeptember 24, 20102min
The Center for the Arts (CFA) has launched the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP), which brings arts professionals together to examine curatorial practices from the fields of visual arts and performance, in order to better understand and improve upon the ways in which performance is managed, produced and presented in this country. Starting in summer 2011, the ICPP will offer a professional certificate program in Curatorial Practice in Performance. Students will study artistic and curatorial practice, social and cultural context, and entrepreneurial strategies and complete an independent project in consultation with an advisor. Through a close examination of…