Corrina KerrSteve Stemler, assistant professor of psychology, is the co-author of "The socially skilled teacher and the development of tacit knowledge," published in the British Educational Research Journal, Feb. 24, 2010
Olivia DrakeRae Armantrout’s Versed, published by Wesleyan University Press, won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the poetry category. “The poetry award went to Rae Armantrout’s Versed (Wesleyan University Press) for its demonstration of superb intellect and technique, its melding of experimental poetics but down-to-earth subject matter to create poems you are compelled to return to, that get richer with each reading.”
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, associate professor of American studies, associate professor of anthropology, delivered the keynote address during the Hawai'i American Studies Association Symposium March 11 at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her lecture was titled, "A Sorry State: Hawaiian Nationalism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment." Kauanui's talk was co-sponsored by the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Sasha Rudensky '01, visiting assistant professor of art, is exhibiting her work in the "31 Women in Art Photography" exhibition at Affirmation Arts in New York City. The exhibit is open until April 10.
Norman Shapiro, professor of romance languages and literatures, is working on an opera titled "La Castrata," with David Francis Urrows, associate professor of music of Hong Kong Baptist University. Shapiro is providing the libretto, or text of the opera.
Brian KattenJohn Raba, head men's lacrosse coach at Wesleyan since 1997, has been selected as one of seven inductees for the University of New Haven Athletics Hall of Fame class of 2010. John is a 1993 graduate of U.N.H. and a former standout in both football and lacrosse there. Coming aboard the full-time Wesleyan staff in 1996 and now an adjunct associate professor in the physical education department, Raba enters his 14th season as head coach of men's lacrosse during 2010. Raba has a 155-67 record at Wesleyan, including an 18-3 mark in 2007, the best season ever at the college, and a…
Rick McCarthy, who recently completed his fifth season as an assistant coach for Wesleyan's highly successful men's lacrosse team, was one of seven individuals inducted into the Connecticut Lacrosse Hall of Fame during a ceremony Jan. 10 at Yale University. Serving as the head coach of the men's lacrosse team at Western Connecticut State U. for the 2004 and 2005 seasons, McCarthy came back to join the Wesleyan staff in 2006 after serving in that capacity during the 2003 campaign. In December 2006, McCarthy was honored by the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLCA) as the Division III assistant coach…
Smashing Magazine, a web design and development blog, ran an article March 19 on higher education web sites, focusing on homepage design. In part the text noted: "College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current students, and alumni. In many cases, they’re also the gateway to the school’s intranet and the public face for both academics and athletics. They often need to include reams of information in a way that makes everything easy to find. It’s a huge…
Scott Holmes, associate professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on March 2. The three year grant, worth $599,832, will support his studies on “Epigenetic Silencing of Gene Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” Read more on Holmes's study here.
Damien Sheehan-Connor, assistant professor of economics, received an $88,747 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his study titled "Bone Marrow Registries and Donor Motives." This grant, subcontracted with the University of California, Santa Barbara, will be applied over three years.
Wesleyan's Center for the Arts received an $800 grant from the Middletown Commission on the Arts (MCA) on March 5. The funds will support "Wesleyan Gamelan Live," through Feb. 28, 2011.