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David PesciTime is running out to register for Musical Madness, a musical competition between classes sponsored by the Dean's Office. The deadline for is Feb. 12. All musical genres are welcome and prizes will be awarded for "Best in Class" and Best in Show." Participants will face a distinguished panel of judges that include Rob Rosenthal, professor of sociology, Sarah Lazare, associate dean of student academic resources, and Barry Chernoff, professor of biology and the Robert Schumann Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Performances will take place on Thursday, February 19 in Crowell Concert Hall at 7 p.m. An opening number…
Lin Manuel Miranda '02 and Bill Sherman '02 can add a Grammy to the awards and accolades they've received in the last 12 months for the Broadway musical 'In the Heights.' Miranda and Sherman were among a team of producers and performers on the production who were awarded a Grammy on Sunday, February 8, for "Best Musical Show Album." The play was first performed as a student play at Wesleyan when Miranda was a student.
President Michael S. Roth reviews Denis Dutton's new book The Art Instinct,examining the author's proposition that art arises out of humanity's biology as much as our intellect.
The 22nd Annual Diane Weiss `80 Memorial Lecture will feature Nancy MacLean, chair of history, professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University, presenting "Ending Jane Crow: How Women's Workplace Activism in the 1970s Changed the Country," on Thursday, February 12, at Russell House 8 p.m. A reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. For more information, contact Jennifer Tucker, chair and associate professor, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies at 860-685-5389.
The Hartford Courant lauded the performance by Henry Threadgill and his band Zooid at Crowell Concert Hall on 2-6, saying it was "too expansive to fit into one genre."
Henry Threadgill and his 'Ensemble Zooids' will perform their special blend of jazz-inflected world music on Friday, February 6, 8 p.m. at the Crowell Concert Hall. An article about the event appeared in The Hartford Courant.
John M. Shapiro `74 and Shonni J. Silverberg, M.D. `76 of New York City have made a gift of $3.5 million to transform Wesleyan's creative writing programs and endow the Writing Center. The gift includes an endowed faculty position that will begin later this year. It also will establish a Writing Center in Davenport Hall, which also will be the home to the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life. The full details on the gift announcement can be seen here.