Olivia DrakeThe Green Street Arts Center received an award for $5,000 from Bank of America on Jan. 4. The one-year grant will fund Green Street's Afterschool Program.
John Bonin, the Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Science, tutor in the College of Social Studies, is the author of two book reviews: Malcolm Cook's Banking in Southeast Asia: The Region’s Decisive Decade, published in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 83, No. 3 in fall 2009, pp. 555 – 557; and Janos Kornai's From Socialism to Capitalism: Eight Essays, published in The Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XLVII, No. 3 in September 2009, pp. 853 – 856. The latter is the main journal for such reviews in the profession and is published by the American Economic Association.
David PesciElizabeth McAlister and Gina Ulysse discuss the recent events in Haiti from a variety of perspectives
Jeffrey Deitch '74 is the new director of The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Gina Ulysse looks at the film Avatar framed by Voodoo and the idea of white people saving the "noble savage"
Woman's Hockey Coach Jodi McKenna is Winter Olympics-bound
President Roth examines Menand's look at the state of universities and colleges today
Dana Royer discusses a new study that examines carbon dioxide levels from millions of years ago
Richard Grossman's OpEd says the economic mistakes of the last decade can be prevented going forward.
Wesleyan has been actively involved in monitoring all information and protocols provided by The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and State of Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH), and the City of Middletown, and we have been implementing the prescribed measures aimed at precaution and treatment with regards to the Wesleyan Community. The latest information from Wesleyan's Health Services Department is available here. Updates and new announcements will be linked in this space as they become available.
Professor Yohe talks about what happens next in the wake of the Copenhagen Climate Conference