Olivia DrakeRichard Grossman, was interviewed on the economic legacy of the Bush presidency on WDUN radio in Gainesville, Ga. on Jan. 9, on WSYR radio in Syracuse, N.Y. on Jan. 10, and on WHAS (part 1) (Part 2) Louisville, Ky. on Jan. 12.
David PesciIn his most recent essay for The Huffington Post, Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth '78 reflects on President Obama's 'brilliant, deeply felt Inaugural Address' and echos on President Obama's call to "choose our better history." Roth discusses this and how we need to we actively start "rejecting the policies of recent years that undermined our constitution and our community."
Karl Scheibe, professor of psychology, emeritus, is quoted in The Hartford Courant on both the "unconscious behavior" of crowds in general and the "sense of enrichment" that attending an event like the inauguration of President Obama can provide for an individual.
Richard Slotkin, Olin Professor of English, Emeritus, was featured in an Associated Press story about the inauguration of President Obama titled A moment in history: The American Story Renewed.
Wesleyan was featured as the cover story in Doors & Hardware magazine's Jan. 2009 issue. Doors & Hardware is a publication of the Door and Hardware Institute, which aims to advance life safety and security solutions. In an article titled "Off-Campus Fire Safety: How Wesleyan University meets the Challenge of Making its Unique Student Housing Fire Safe," the magazine cites Wesleyan's Facilities for upgrading residential sprinkler systems. Joyce Topshe, associate vice president of facilities, and Barb Spalding, associate director of campus fire safety, are featured in the article. Wesleyan allocated $5M towards sprinklers for a residence hall that housed 520…
Scott Plous, professor of psychology, is featured in an Dec. 2008 article on action teaching in the APA magazine Monitor on Psychology. Plous coined the term "action teaching" in 2000 to refer to teaching that leads not only to a better understanding of psychology but to a more just, humane, and peaceful world, and he manages the web site ActionTeaching.org.
Elvin Lim, assistant professor of government, was featured in the Jan. 12 edition of The New Yorker in an article titled "Annals of the Presidency." The article discusses inaugural addresses and presidential speech styles in general and draws from Lim's book, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency in which he discusses the progressive dumbing down of presidential speeches.
Q: Scott, when did you begin your Wesleyan career in Information Technology Services? A: I arrived in mid-September 2008. Q: You're currently the academic computing manager for the Natural Sciences and Mathematics area. Do you generally support faculty? A: Supporting faculty takes up most of my time. However, because grad-students work closely with faculty, I have also been supporting grad-students in certain situations. For example, a grad student may need assistance with Wesfiles or Blackboard and I would assist him or her. Additionally, I may also conduct specific training for a class of undergrads. Q: Is supporting NSM any different…
Rico Brogna, who had a nine-year career in Major League Baseball from 1992 through 2001, will rejoin the Wesleyan University football coaching staff as an assistant during the 2009 season. Brogna was an assistant football coach at Wesleyan during the 2004 season, handling receivers. His specific assignment for 2009 has not been determined, however, he will be on the offensive side of the ball, according to 18-year Head Coach Frank Hauser. Playing with the Tigers, Mets, Phillies, Red Sox and Braves during his nine-year major league career, Brogna moved into high school football coaching for three years before joining the…
Masami Imai, assistant professor of economics, East Asian studies, is the author of “Ideologies, vested interest groups, and postal saving privatization in Japan," published in Public Choice August 2008. The privatization of Japan’s postal saving system has been a politically charged issue since it first started being debated in the late 1980s, and yet it provides a useful setting in which political economy of economic policy-making can be investigated empirically. Analyzing the pre-election survey of the House of Representatives candidates in 2003 and also the voting patterns of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members on a set of postal privatization bills…
Priscilla Meyer, professor of Russian language and literature, is the author of How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, published in January 2009 by the University of Wisconsin Press. In How the Russians Read the French, Meyer shows how Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy engaged with French literature and culture to define their own positions as Russian writers with specifically Russian aesthetics and moral values. Rejecting French sensationalism and what they perceived as a lack of spirituality among Westerners, these three writers created moral and philosophical works of art that answered French decadence and "desacralization" with…
Gloster Aaron, assistant professor of biology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, is the co-author of "Statistical Significance of Precisely Repeated Intracellular Synaptic Patterns," published in PLoS ONE 3(12): e3983, Dec. 19, 2008.