Olivia DrakeKhachig Tölölyan, professor of letters, professor of English, editor of "Diaspora," was one of two keynote speakers at a conference on “Diaspora as a resource: Comparative Studies in Strategies, Networks and Urban Space.” The international event was held in Hamburg, Germany June 4-6. Tölölyan’s interests include diasporas, transnationalism, the world/globe polarity and the Armenian diaspora.
James Greenwood, visiting assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, was mentioned in a June 14 BBC News science article on “Much More Water Found in Lunar Rocks.” Greenwood and Professor Lawrence Taylor from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, have come up with evidence on the origins of lunar water: comets. According to the article, they believe there were a lot of comets flying around at the time of the Moon's formation, "hitting the little, nascent, early Moon some 4.5 billion years ago.”
Paula Paige, adjunct professor of romance languages emerita, won the online Gordon Award for Flash Fiction, sponsored by Our Stories Literary Magazine, for a story titled "Moshiach is Here." Although she’s been writing fiction for a long time, this is her first publication. She was long-listed for the Fish International Fiction Prize, and received Honorable Mentions in the “New Millennium Writings” winter competition of 2009 and in the 2010 Richard Bausch Short Story Prize. She was Writer in Residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, in 1991. A segment of the story follows: "The garage on 87th disgorged a big…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg invited Wesleyan Soccer players Clare Colton '12 and Beth Kenworthy '10, both playing this summer for the New York Athletic Club, to a reception at the Mayor's Gracie Mansion June 9 as part of the World Cup Kick-off.
Rob Rosenthal, the John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, will serve as interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs for the 2010/2011 academic year. Rosenthal brings to this position experience gained as chair of the faculty, as director of the Service Learning Center, and as a celebrated scholar-teacher. Rosenthal's appointment is effective July 1.
David PesciThe two day festival in New York City celebrated Braxton's Music and influence
The New York Times cites performances by Anthony Braxton, professor of music, and Braxton’s students Taylor Ho Bynum ’98, James Fei ’99, Mary Halvorson ’02, and Chris Jonas ‘99 in a round up of Jazz Festivals happening in and around New York City during the next few weeks.
Newly-graduated Kurose on going from being a senior to proving yourself all over again in the job market
Esteemed Film Studies Professor discusses history of actors beyond their teen idol years
Most pop songs run between two and four minutes. However, on Congratulations, the new album by MGMT - a.k.a. Ben Goldwasser ’05 and Andrew VanWyngarden ’05 - have a pop song called "Siberian Breaks" that clocks in at just over 12 minutes. In The Chicago Tribune, bandmates explain how it came about, and why it follows a certain pop tradition.
Bill HolderWilliam Ward, professor of theater and design emeritus, died June 14, 2010. He was 79 years old. Ward came to Wesleyan in 1956, as an instructor in art, and he taught at Wesleyan for 42 years, becoming professor of theater and design in 1969. He retired in 1998. Ward designed sets for more than 100 plays and concerts at Wesleyan, and he also created graphical and other design work for more than 25 exhibitions and publications. Ward was one of the principal faculty involved in proposing the Center for the Arts complex, for which he served as design consultant. In…
Ismail says that, despite the school's rough surroundings, 'there was no excuse not to achieve"