Olivia DrakeBorn and raised in Africa's largest slum, Kennedy Odede ’12 witnessed abuse, rape, domestic violence and general mistreatment of school-aged girls in his community. His own sister, at age 17, gave birth to a baby recently as a result of rape. Sadly, this is the norm. Without access to education, many of the girls are forced into commercial sex work at early ages. The Kenyan Government views the slum, named Kibera, as an illegal settlement and therefore does not provide any services or government-funded schools. "Girls in my community lose their hope of ever attaining an education and ever leaving…
David LowAuthor Wells Tower ’96 recently garnered rave reviews across the country for his first short story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned (Farrar Straus Giroux) which was published in March. The book received two fine reviews in the same week in The New York Times and was the cover review for The New York Times Sunday Book Review. For the Sunday Times, acclaimed writer Edmund White wrote: “Every one of the stories .., is polished and distinctive. Though he’s intrigued by the painful experiences of men much older than he is, Tower can write with equal power about young women and…
Bill Holder“Book-lover Dick Rohfritch didn’t set out to buy 12,000 modern first editions once owned by an eccentric lawyer-collector found murdered in his rural Missouri home. It’s just that he doesn’t like to play golf. And thereby hangs the tale of how The Woodlands got Good Books in the Woods, a new secondhand bookstore full of remarkable finds.” The Houston Chronicle recounts this story about Rohfritch ’66, an English major who works in chemical sales but has always loved reading and enjoys collecting books. The dead man, 70-year-old Rolland Comstock, was an avid bibliophile who acquired signed first editions by 20th-century…
Q: Brian, you are an area coordinator in Residential Life. What housing areas do you oversee on campus? A: I oversee the Senior Wood Frames, High and Low Rise, and the Washington Street Residence Halls. Q: What does it mean to be an area coordinator? A: In general, an area coordinator has an understanding of all that goes on in their residential area and is one bridge between the administration and the needs of the students. This includes the training and supervision of student staff, overseeing the programming that occurs within the area, as well as the adjudication of conduct…
A recent March article by Nate Chinen in The New York Times focused on Firehouse 12, a New Haven state-of-the-art recording studio and home to a jazz record label of the same name. Firehouse 12 Records is co-owned by cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum ’98 and Nick Lloyd, who owns the recording studio. The Times article pointed out that the Firehouse 12 studio in a renovated 1905 firehouse in New Haven’s Ninth Square Neighborhood has also become a venue for performances by some of today’s most talented young avant-garde jazz artists. At the same time, Firehouse 12 records has already released…
Just in time for the opening crack of bats, the prolific Paul Dickson ’61 has produced The Dickson Baseball Dictionary: The Revised, Expand, and Now-Definitive Work on the Language of Baseball (Norton). Writing for The Washington Times, James Stroud says: One cannot be a writer in Washington and not know this local Samuel Johnson of our craft. He is the author of more than 50 books in a staggering range from authoritative accounts of Sputnik, the 1932 Bonus Army March, the history of ice cream and, not surprisingly a whole shelf about the language of slang from the battlefield to…
David PesciMcNair Fellows Asia Neupane ’09 and Aivi Doan ’10 have both received recognition for their research initiatives. Neupane, who also is a Mellon Fellow, was awarded first prize for her poster presentation "Mercury Pollution in Tobago, West Indies" at the 8th Annual New England Science Symposium, which was held April 3 at Harvard Medical School. Neupane collected samples for her research this summer in Tobago, West Indies, and has been analyzing them in the Earth and Environmental Sciences lab of Johan Varekamp, the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science. She has been a research assistant with Professor Varekamp since…
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Wesleyan University is the cover feature in the Spring 2009 edition of River & Shore Magazine. In an article titled "College by the River: Memories Cut in Brownstone," the author, Erik Hesselberg, writes about the history of Wesleyan, College Row's brownstone buildings, the crew team, Wesleyan's first president Wilbur Fisk, the former Judd Hall of Natural Science Exley Science Center, the Geology Department and more. Jelle de Boer, the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, emeritus, also is mentioned in an article titled "Reading the Rocks." The article focuses on De Boer's interests in plate tectonics and mentions his theory on…
Masami Imai, assistant professor of economics, assistant professor of East Asian studies, is the author of "Political Determinants of Government Loans in Japan," published in the Journal of Law and Economics.
Chris Hogendorn, associate professor of economics, co-chaired a session and presented his paper "Platform Contracting and Exclusivity" at the International Industrial Organization Conference at Northeastern University on April 4.
Christopher Doucette ’11, a molecular biology and biochemistry major, received an undergraduate research award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s Undergraduate Affiliate Network is a national organization comprised of university-based chapters dedicated to the advancement of undergraduate research, research-based undergraduate education, and K-12 outreach in biochemistry and molecular biology. Doucette will receive a research award in the amount of $1,000. The award is to be used for the purchase of research supplies and reagents. He is expected to present his findings and results at the next ASBMB annual…