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		<title>Students Honored with Academic Prizes, Fellowships, Scholarships</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/20/awardrecipients2013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office of Academic Affairs and Office of Student Affairs hosted a reception honoring students who have been awarded academic prizes, fellowships and scholarships on May 8 in Daniel Family Commons. The awards and award recipients are: GEORGE H. ACHESON AND GRASS FOUNDATION PRIZE IN NEUROSCIENCE Established in 1992 by a gift from the Grass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Students Recipients of Projects for Peace Awards</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/projectsforpeace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Rubenstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Wesleyan students have been awarded grants through the Davis Projects for Peace Program to bring their grassroots project proposals to fruition. Class of 2014&#8242;s Mfundi Makama’s $10,000 grant will support The Buddies Program, which he recently created as a way to empower young women in Swaziland through educational achievement. Greg Shaheen ’13 will use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distinguished Scholars from China Discuss &#8220;Comparative Enlightenments&#8221; at Wesleyan</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/chinesescholars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Holder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Story contributed by Charles Salas, director of strategic initiatives) “A golden example of what exchange should be between academic communities in the United States and China.” That’s how Gao Xiang, vice secretary of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and editor-in-chief of the Social Sciences in China Press, described the Chinese-American Scholarly Exchange Forum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WESeminars, Campus Parties, Reunions, Graduates at R&amp;C Weekend</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/reunionandcommencementweekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reunite with classmates, attend WESeminars, tour campus, visit with former professors, and congratulate the Class of 2013 during Reunion &#38; Commencement Weekend May 23-26. &#8220;Reunion &#38; Commencement is such a fun and celebratory time for the entire Wesleyan community,&#8221; said Deana Hutson, director of events for University Relations. &#8220;There really is something for everyone. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Braxton Honored with Prestigious Doris Duke Artist Award</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/braxtondorisduke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Rubenstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Braxton, the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, has been honored with the 2013 Doris Duke Artist Award, one of the country’s most prestigious awards for individual artists. It comes with a $225,000 honorarium. Braxton is a composer, saxophonist, teacher and philosopher with a career spanning half a century. He is also the founder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naegele Named 2013-14 ELATE at Drexel® Fellow</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/drexelfellow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jan Naegele, professor of biology, professor of neuroscience and behavior, was named a 2013-14 ELATE (Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering) at Drexel® Fellow for the 2013-14 academic year. Naegele and 18 other women faculty in science, technology, engineering and math fields, received the fellowship. They come from a range of universities and colleges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mathematics Ph.D. Student Haensch Receives Mass Media Fellowship</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/massmediafellow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Rubenstein</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Anna Haensch tells new acquaintances that she’s a mathematician, many people immediately recoil. “There’s this repellent nature to math,” she said. “There’s this big wall up around it—people find it terrifying or uninteresting.” That’s exactly why Haensch, a Ph.D. student who just successfully defended her dissertation, wants to learn how to communicate better to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Seniors Present Theses at Study for Public Life Presentation</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/publiclifepresentations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for the Study of Public Life&#8217;s profiled a range of Wesleyan senior thesis research projects on topics related to the study of public life on April 26. The inaugural event featured 10-minute presentations by Wesleyan seniors whose 2012-13 thesis research represents an undertaking to pursue knowledge about public life in its broad definition. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wishing Well&#8221; to Hydrate Wesleyan Community During Reunion &amp; Commencement</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/wishingwell/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/wishingwell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a part of its commitment to be a bottled water-free campus, Wesleyan is continually seeking alternatives to hydrate the campus community. During Reunion &#38; Commencement, May 23-26, a group of students will debut their sustainable solution, &#8220;The Wishing Well,&#8221; a custom-built mobile water station. The two-piece water tank, constructed by Wesleyan&#8217;s Scientific Support Services, features [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wesleyan Joins New England Colleges&#8217; Effort to Reduce Food Waste</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/foodwaste/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/foodwaste/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Drake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-three colleges and universities in New England, including Wesleyan, have joined an EPA effort to cut the amount of food that goes to waste. This doubles the participation of EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge in 2013, since 11 New England colleges and universities were already participating in the challenge. In 2011, these schools recovered a total [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festival, Guest Lectures, Waste Audit at Wesleyan&#8217;s Earth Month Celebration</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/earthmonthphotos/</link>
		<comments>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/earthmonthphotos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hannah Norman '16</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Earth Day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the full Earth Month schedule online here. (Photos by Hannah Norman &#8217;16)]]></description>
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		<title>Graduate Student Services Welcomes New BA/MA Students</title>
		<link>http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/13/graduatestudents-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia Drake</dc:creator>
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