Olivia DrakeRed & Black Society member Megan Lesko '06 talks to alumni while raising funds for the Wesleyan Annual Fund for Excellence. Pictured below is Allie Joe, '05 and Joshua Atwood '08. Lesko and Joe are both student managers for the society. Posted 12/02/05 Emily Frost 06 knows it takes courage to call and speak with strangers. As a member of Wesleyans Red & Black Society, she is learning how to transform what could be an awkward conversation into a more meaningful exchange. Frost is among 60 Red & Black Society members who call alumni and parents requesting gifts to Wesleyan…
Ruth Striegel-Moore, professor and chair of psychology, is leading a binge-eating study. Posted 12/02/05 The largest, most comprehensive binge-eating study ever undertaken has been initiated in Portland, Oregon, and the primary investigator is Ruth Striegel-Moore, professor and chair of psychology. Striegel-Moore, an internationally-recognized expert on eating disorders, says the study will last four years and include male and female subjects between 18 and 50 years of age. People participating in the study who present with eating disorders will be offered treatment options. The study is being funded by National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and…
Posted 12/02/05 Spencer Berry, professor of biology Emeritus, died Nov. 19 at his home in Middlefield, Conn. at the age of 72. His career at Wesleyan spanned 35 years. Berry joined the Wesleyan faculty in 1964 and retired in 1999. He earned a bachelors of art in biology from Williams College with a minor in art history; a masters of arts in biology from Wesleyan; and a Ph.D at Western Reserve University. An expert in the mechanisms of insect development, he held a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Career Development Award from 1971 to 1976 and received several research grants…