David PesciSuzanne O'Connell, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, director, service learning center, has an opinion piece in The Hartford Courant that tells residents and law-makers about a proven, environmentally-friendly method for reducing carbon emissions and raising revenue that's also incredibly cheap to implement.
Matthew Weiner '87, the creator of the popular TV series 'Mad Men' won two Emmy awards for the show at the most recent Emmy awards ceremony. Weiner won for both best drama, and for writing.
Brian Stewart, associate professor of physics and director of Wesleyan's Molecular Collisions Laboratory, settles once and for all exactly what the Heisenberg Principle means on NPR's "The Colin McEnroe Show."
Marwa Aly, Wesleyan's Muslim Chaplain, discussed what it's like to be a Muslim Chaplain at American universities, and details some of the challenges she faced in general growing up as a Muslim student in the American school systems.
Lisa Dombroski, associate professor of film studies, comments in USA Today on the new film Jennifer's Body, a horror film with a snarky side that has the genre-inverting set-up of men as the victims and a woman who is the feared yet extremely attractive "monster."
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, published by the Wesleyan University Press, is one of the winners of the 30th annual American Book Awards for 2009. The awards are presented by the Before Columbus Foundation and will be formally award on Sunday, October 11th, in New York City.
Gil Skillman, chair and professor of economics, was a featured guest on WNPR's "Where We Live" discussion on the general state of the economy one year after the demise of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the recession. Skillman and two other economists discuss what led to the collapse and point out some of the danger points that have been under-reported in the newsmedia and have yet to be addressed by the Federal Government.
The Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR had a discussion about Vodou and Haitian culture featuring Elizabeth McAlister, associate professor of religion, associate professor of African American studies, and Gina Ulysse, associate professor of anthropology, associate professor of African American studies, associate professor of feminist gender and sexuality studies.
The Department of Film Studies Elia Kazan Centennial, which opens Saturday, Sept. 12, was the focus of a feature in The Hartford Courant. A seminal director and founder of the Actors Studio, Kazan was both a brilliant and influential figure in film. He was also surrounded by controversy during his career, especially during the 1950s and the investigations by House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee. Kazan was also a "fixture" at Wesleyan, where he often came to write and speak to the classes of Jeanine Basinger, Chair and Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies. His personal papers reside in the Wesleyan…
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Jared Radin '12 is among those interviewed in a Newsweek story about kids who grew up in the wake of the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Noah Klein-Markman ’13 learned his first lesson at Wesleyan 20 minutes after arriving on campus. "I already lost the key," he said, carrying in two armloads of belongings. "I think I left the key inside the room." Klein-Markman, of Berkley, Calif., was one of the first students to move into the Butterfield Residence Hall during the Class of 2013 Arrival Day Sept. 1. He joined more than 800 other first-year, transfer, exchange and visiting students in the class. His mother, Laura Klein '78; father Henry Markman; and brother Sam Klein-Markman assisted Noah with the early morning move. The family dog,…