David PesciFoyle talks about the factors affecting Sen. Dodd's dropping poll numbers
Joss Whedon '87 receives prestigious Vanguard Award from the Producer's Guild
Russell Perkins '09, COL, has been awarded a 2010 Rhodes Scholarship.
President Roth reviews Breger's "A Dream of Undying Fame" for The Los Angeles Times
The Career Resources Director discusses a phenomenon: alumni turning to colleges for job search networking
Feature on a grant-funded prison education program created by two Wesleyan students.
Olivia DrakeThe Wesleyan Theater Department presented Caryl Churchill's The Skriker Nov. 19, 20, 21 and 22 in the Center for the Arts Theater. The play was directed by Bob Bresnick, visiting assistant professor in theater with costume designs and puppet designs by Leslie Weinberg, artist in residence in theater. Churchill describes the title character in The Skriker as a "polluted, not-believed-in nature spirit who comes up to the world to get love, attention and revenge." The Skriker tries to enlist the help of two friends: one pregnant and one who has killed her child. With tragic poetry and stunning linguistic pyrotechnics, the play…
Priscilla Meyer, professor of Russian language and literature, was awarded the University of Southern California Book Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) during their annual conference. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe, or Eurasia in the field of literary and cultural studies. Meyer is the author of How the Russians Read the French. She speaks about her book online here. More than 2,100 scholars attended the conference.
Asst. Prof. Kirk Swinehart calls the book ‘Cheerful Money,’ the “memoir of the season—and one for all time.”
According to Gary Yohe and other IPCC members the risks of global warming are increasing at a rapid rate.
More than 5,000 parents, alumni and friends came to campus Nov. 6-8 to celebrate Homecoming/Family Weekend. This year's theme was "Come Home!" Event photos are posted on the HCFW website. "Every year, I hear from alumni, parents and students that Homecoming/Family Weekend gets better and better," says Gemma Fontanella Ebstein, associate vice president for external relations. "We had a terrific turnout this year and the energy was palpable across campus – in the WESeminars, athletic contests, department anniversary celebrations and other special gatherings throughout the weekend. This has become one of the highlights of the year for the Wesleyan community.” The…
For 12 weeks last summer, Lauren Valentino ’10 taught underprivileged rising 9th graders how to speak French and read Hamlet – all while most of her students were still learning English as a second language. Valentino was in Denver, Colo., working with residents who had recently moved to the U.S. from Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Kenya, Mexico and Columbia, to name a few. "One student was a refugee from the Ivory Coast and had no formal schooling until three years ago," says Valentino, a sociology and French major. "He was one of my brightest kids." As a student-teacher working at the…