Olivia DrakeDavid Winakor is Wesleyan's first general counsel and represents the university on issues affecting the university. Posted 02/01/08 According to David Winakor, lawyers and doctors often have something in common. We cant always tell you what exact illness or illnesses you might have, but we can probably help treat some symptoms and maybe even prevent it from getting worse, Winakor says. Although our issues are very different, we are both trained to find the answer. As a lawyer and Wesleyans first General Counsel, Winakor represents the university, its trustees, officers, faculty and staff, all in their official capacities, on…
Eloise Glick, faculty resource specialist, helps process teaching evaluations at the end of each semester in the Office of Academic Affairs. Posted 02/01/08 Q: Eloise, as a faculty resource specialist in the Office of Academic Affairs, what resources do you manage for the faculty?A: I coordinate all the paper and processes -- except for benefits -- associated with a faculty members career from the letter of offer until retirement. There is a reason the main decorative feature of my office is filing cabinets!Q: When a new faculty member is hired, what is the process of getting him or her…
Barbara Juhasz, at right, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience and behavior, explains eye-tracking data to guests during a roving lab event Jan. 23. Posted 02/01/08 Three new psychology labs in Judd Hall allow faculty and students to study readers' habits, to reveal insights into children's' minds and to help improve existing treatments for schizophrenia.The Department of Psychology hosted a roving lab event Jan. 23 to introduce the labs and showcase the extensive renovations that were completed to create customized multi-purpose facilities. The renovations include Barbara Juhasz's eye tracking lab on the fifth floor, Anna Shustermans child development lab on…
Wesleyan has secured a permanent endowment that will support the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at the Center for the Americas. Posted 02/01/08 In 2004, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation challenged Wesleyan to raise $1.5 million over a three-year period. Wesleyan agreed -- and recently succeeded. As part of the challenge, the Mellon Foundation matched these funds to endow a permanent Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the humanities within the Center for the Americas. Since 1998, postdoctoral fellows were hired on a year-to-year basis as grant funding allowed. The Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program has become part of the very rhythm of the…
Janice Astor del Valle, left, director of the Green Street Arts Center, listens to Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, director of the Center for Art and Public Life at the California College of the Arts in Oakland, speak in Memorial Chapel during a campus visit Nov. 2. Mañjon will return to campus in July as Wesleyan's new vice president for diversity and strategic partnerships. Posted 02/01/08 President Michael Roth has appointed Sonia BasSheva Mañjon as vice president for diversity and strategic partnerships, a new position that will include leadership on civic engagement and cooperation with private and public organizations. Mañjon will work…
U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy is currently the senior Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate. He will speak at the 176th Wesleyan commencement. Posted 02/01/08 U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy will deliver the main address at Wesleyan's 176th commencement in May. Senator Kennedy, a Democrat, is the senior senator from Massachusetts and the second longest-serving current member of the U.S. Senate. Senator Kennedy has long been a thoughtful and energetic supporter of higher education in the United States, says Wesleyan's President Michael Roth. In this time of great change at our universities, it is…
Shawn Hill, desktop support specialist, front, and Catalino Cuadrado, junior instructional media specialist, send a document to a printer in the Science Tower Computing Lab. Three printers in the lab are set up for duplex printing, which is just one way Wesleyan is implementing "green" computing methods. Posted 02/01/08 First came green energy, then green chemistry, and now Wesleyan is exploring green computing as another way to fight global climate change and become a more sustainable institution and community. We are in the process of implementing several green computing ideas to support the universitys mission to become a responsible environmental…