Olivia DrakeFor 37 years, John Paoletti has explored the ideas and histories that produced both well-known and not so well-known works of Renaissance and modern art with thousands of Wesleyan students. This May, Paoletti will retire from Wesleyan's Art and Art History Department, ending a longtime career of teaching artists such as Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donatello, and Michelangelo as well as the patronage of the Medici family. "I will really miss working with the Wesleyan students and faculty colleagues across the curriculum," Paoletti says from his office in the Davison Art Center. "Both have always been keenly critical of the…
Gary Yohe, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, has been appointed to the Adaptation Subcommittee of the Connecticut Governor’s Steering Committee on Climate Change, 2008-2010. He also has been selected to be a member of the National Research Council Committee on America’s Climate Choices: Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change, 2008-2011. The panel will host a Climate Summit in DC at the end of March and provide Congress and the Administration a review of the panel’s "Choices" by the end of the year. A synthetic blueprint will then be created by an umbrella panel. Yohe also helped organize…
A photograph by Jenny Fields ’03, digital asset and project coordinator for University Communications, was chosen to be part of the Shoreline Arts Alliance's IMAGES photography exhibit. The annual, juried photography competition is open to all residents of Connecticut and is highly regarded for excellence statewide. The exhibition will run from Feb. 9-28 at the Guilford Art Center, 411 Church Street, Guilford, Conn. The gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. daily. The photo, titled "Rest," is part of a series Fields photographed to chronicle the end of her grandmother's life. "It's true that art heals," Fields writes in…
Robert Herrick III was hired by the Psychology Department as a web programmer on Feb. 9. Edgardo Quinones was hired by the Green Street Arts Center as the technical and maintenance coordinator on Feb. 16.
Rich Langer, store assistant at the Cardinal Technology Center, will be inducted into the Regional School District 17 (Haddam and Killingworth, Conn.) Hall of Fame 2009 May 30. The Hall of Fame was formed to honor the contributions made by coaches, former student athletes and others to the various athletic programs offered as a part of the Regional School District 17 schools. The Hall of Fame Class of 2009 will recognize the Langer's volleyball coaching career.
Ali Fourney ’09 has become the all-time leading scorer for Wesleyan women's basketball. The 18 points Founey scored 18 during a 66-55 loss at Emmanuel College in Boston, Mass. on Feb. 4. gave her a career total of 1,424 points, the most in Wesleyan's program history. She surpassed the previous career points scoring record of 1,416 held by Angie Palmer '95. Fourney, and Wesleyan Women's Basketball still have two more regular season games before the NESCAC tournament begins Feb. 21. For more information click here.
The program, "The Middletown Youth Radio Project" (MYRP) on Wesleyan's station WESU 88.1 FM was featured in the Feb. 3 edition of The Christian Science Monitor. MYRP partners 12 elementary and middle-school students with eight Wesleyan University student mentors. Every Friday night, two 10- to 12-year-old DJs put on their headsets in the WESU radio studios and host their own half-hour radio show. Both Wesleyan students and the neighborhood kids benefit from MYRP, says Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, vice president of diversity and strategic partnerships, and Ben Michael, WESU station manager. "The program ... connects students and their curricula work with hands-on…
David PesciPamela Tatge, director for the Center for the Arts (CFA) was a guest on the Faith Middleton Show, which is broadcast locally on National Public Radio affiliates. Tatge discussed the global arts events at Wesleyan.
Elizabeth McAlister in UK a reprint of the piece placed in South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Jonathan Cutler, associate professor of sociology spoke about the negotiations between the Teamsters and Sikorsky Aircraft that are heading toward a midnight deadline.
Jeanine Basinger, Chair and Corwin Fuller Professor of Film Studies, discusses in The Los Angeles Times what films Hollywood offered during the last great economic crash and how they contrast with what studios are screening now.
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