Olivia DrakeNovember 11, 20081min
Ruth Striegel-Moore, the Walter A. Crowell University Professor of the Social Sciences, professor and chair of psychology, is the recipient of the New England Psychological Association’s (NEPA) Distinguished Contribution Award. She delivered the Distinguished Contribution Award Lecture titled “Reducing the Burden of Suffering from Eating Disorders” during the 48th Annual Meeting of the organization at Western New England College, Springfield, Mass. on Oct. 25. The award honors psychologists with current or prior association with New England who have distinguished themselves by advancing the science of psychology; used psychology to advance individual and/or community well-being through service; are conducting a program…

Olivia DrakeNovember 11, 20081min
Jorge Arévalo Mateus, a Ph.D candidate in ethnomusicology, received a 2008 American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers Deems Taylor Award on Oct. 20. Mateus was honored for his liner notes for The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949, released by Woody Guthrie Publications. Mateus and fellow winners will be honored at a special reception at the The Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York, N.Y. Dec. 9. Established in 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing the world's largest repertory totaling over 8.5 million copyrighted musical…

Olivia DrakeNovember 11, 20081min
Norman Shapiro, professor of romance languages and literatures, received the Lewis Galantière Award, given biennially by the American Translators Association (ATA) for a distinguished book-length literary translation into English. Shapiro was honored for his volume of critically-praised verse translations, The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine (Illinois, 2008). The wisdom, wit, and elegance of La Fontaine (1621-1695), the preeminent fable-writer since Aesop, made him the universally admired master of the genre. This prestigious award honors one of the ATA's founding members, Lewis Galantière (1894-1977), celebrated for his translations from French drama, fiction, and poetry during the middle decades of…

Olivia DrakeNovember 11, 20082min
Dan Lachman '09 was featured in an a Oct. 12 Washington Post article titled Making it: A college student takes aim at his future by starting a profitable clothing business". Lachman, 21, started his company, Sharp Shirter, in 2005. He creates clothing designs and laptop skins. According to the article, "after college, Dan plans to move to Philadelphia and continue expanding Sharp Shirter while perhaps working for a start-up company that's further along so he can learn more about running a business. Ultimately, he wants to run Sharp Shirter online from South Africa, where his father was born and where…

Olivia DrakeNovember 11, 20081min
Ganesan Ravishanker, associate vice president for Information Technology Services, spoke on Wesleyan's electronic portfolio Oct. 24 during the West Coast National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) Group's meeting at Reed College in Portland, Ore. The topic of the meeting was "Is There a Niche for e-Portfolios at Liberal Arts Colleges?" In this presentation, Ravishanker provided a brief history of how ITS and Academic Affairs began developing an electronic portfolio in 1998 as part of a new curricular renewal initiative. The electronic portfolio was originally conceived to enhance the communication between (more…)

Olivia DrakeNovember 11, 20081min
Matt Lesser ’10, who is on a leave of absence from Wesleyan this semester, was elected as a state representative for Connecticut's 100th District during the 2008 election. He pulled off the victory against Republican Ray Kalinowski, a third-term incumbent for the 100th House District, which covers part of Middletown. Lesser, 25, was previously elected to Middletown's Planning and Zoning Commission. Lesser, a democrat, was featured on the Hartford, Conn.-based Eyewitness News Channel 3 Nov. 5 in a story titled "25-Year-Old Snatches State Seat From Rep." The story and video are online here.

David PesciNovember 11, 20081min
A paper co-authored by Ellen Thomas, research professor of earth and enviornmental sciences, titled "Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present," published in Science, 292, in 2001, has been identified by Thomson Reuters Scientific's Essential Science Indicators as one of the most highly cited papers in field of geosciences, and has been designated as a "Current Classic" for October 2008. For more information go to: http://sciencewatch.com/dr/cc/08-octcc/'Article.

Olivia DrakeNovember 11, 20081min
The Wesleyan community is invited to go "Backstage at Information Technology Services" during an open house Nov. 12. Self-guided and guided tours for faculty, staff and students will be ongoing from 1 to 4 p.m. Raffle prizes will be awarded. Also, during this time, ITS will host three "acts." "ITS is hosting an open house to provide an opportunity for the community to visit our staff members in their environments, to learn about what they do, and in some cases to put a face with a person to whom they have either spoken on the phone or emailed," says Ganesan "Ravi"…

Olivia DrakeNovember 11, 20081min
Ellen Thomas, research professor of earth and enviornmental sciences, is the author of "Research Focus: Descent into the Icehouse," published in Geology, 36: 191-192, 2008. She is the co-author of "Depth-dependency of the Paleocene-Eocene Carbon Isotope Excursion: paired benthic and terrestrial biomarker records (ODP Leg 208, Walvis Ridge)," published in  Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst, 9 (10): Q10008, 2008; and "Effects of Oligocene climatic events on the foraminiferal record from Fuente Caldera section (Spain, western Tethys)," published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 269: 94-102. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.08.006, in press.