Olivia DrakeThe Department of Economics welcomes William “Bill” Craighead, assistant professor. Craighead is an expert on international economics, open-economy macroeconomics and economic history. “I’m currently researching how exchange rate policy affects employment in different sectors of the economy,” he says. In addition to his research, he is teaching an upper-level elective, International Trade, and a core course called Macroeconomic Analysis. "This is a particularly exciting time to be studying macroeconomics," he says. "While the economic slump has unfortunately brought a great deal of hardship to many people, it has raised a number of issues that I can discuss with the students…
Cynthia RockwellDiana Farrell ’87, deputy assistant to the President on economic policy and deputy director of the National Economic Council, was the subject of a Fortune magazine interview. Writer Tory Newmyer was exploring the impending departure of Farrell’s boss, Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council, at midterm elections. When asked what Farrell thinks Summers’ legacy will be, she told Newmyer: “I think his legacy and the President's legacy are going to be extraordinary. Consider the first 18 months of this administration, when Larry was really a key architect of a lot of the economic policy, it was an unprecedented…
Gale Lackey, in her 33rd year of coaching at Wesleyan, and her 26th season at the helm of the women's volleyball Cardinals, will be inducted into the Connecticut Women's Volleyball Hall of Fame during its 13th annual induction ceremony Tuesday, Nov. 23. The ceremony will take place at the Aqua Turf Country Club in Southington, Conn. In total, six individuals will be enshrined this year, bringing the total in the CWVHOF up to 80. Coach Lackey will become one of only six who are inducted as college coaches. Others this year are being added to the Hall of Fame in the…
The Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholars Program enables qualified young men and women from each of 11 countries or regions - The People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam to come to Wesleyan on full tuition scholarships. This program is made possible by Wesleyan University and the Freeman Foundation, which aims to improve understanding and to strengthen ties between the United States and the countries of the Pacific Rim. Entry into the Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholars Program is highly competitive: only one student will be selected annually from each country. Below…
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Clara Silverstein '82 is the author of A White House Garden Cookbook published by Red Rock Press, 2010. When Michelle Obama decided to turn a chunk of White House lawn into a vegetable patch, she was cheered by parents who want their kids to eat better and Americans who want to have a hand in growing their own food. This book chronicles the first year of this famous garden, with its many dozens of vegetables and herbs, including descendants of seeds planted by Thomas Jefferson; its berries and the honey from the hives of First Family bees. Filled with ideas…
Tasmiha Khan '12 made a poster presentation on her research during the Inspiring Women Scientists conference Sept. 24 at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. She represented Wesleyan, while presenting her research "Responses to Devaluation among American-Muslims,” co-created by Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, assistant professor of psychology. Khan focuses her research on ethnic minorities/feminine honor. Mariah Schug, visiting assistant professor of psychology, accompanied Khan at the conference. Sandy Durosier ’13, Adela Ramirez ‘13 and Mariah Schug, visiting assistant professor of psychology, also attended the conference.
Sarah Wiliarty, assistant professor of government, tutor in the College of Social Studies, is the author of The CDU and the Politics of Gender in Germany: Bringing Women to the Party, published by Cambridge University Press, September 2010. This book develops the concept of the corporatist catch-all party to explain how the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has responded to changing demands from women over the past 40 years. Otto Kirchheimer's classic study argues that when catch-all parties reach out to new constituencies, they are forced to decrease the involvement of membership to facilitate doctrinal flexibility. In a corporatist catch-all party,…