David LowVisiting instructor in film studies Sam Wasson ’03 conducted a fascinating Q&A about Blake Edwards’ classic American film Breakfast at Tiffany’s, which was shown on Sept. 28 at the Goldsmith Family Cinema as part of the ongoing Adaptation Series, a collaboration between the Friends of the Wesleyan Library and the Center for Film Studies which examines the translation of literary works to the screen. Wasson is the author of The New York Times best seller Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and The Dawn of the American Woman, the first complete account of the making of the beloved movie…
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The Office of Public Safety announces two promotions and a new hire. Tony Bostick, formerly a captain, was promoted to associate director of Public Safety on Oct. 1. Bostick has 21 years of service at Wesleyan. He's worked as an officer, supervisor, investigator and as a patrol captain for the past five years. In his new role, Bostick will continue to direct the patrol division and will also oversee investigations, assist with budget management, and maintain relationship with outside agencies. "I like the campus environment - the students, the administrators," Bostic says. "I enjoy working to keep everyone comfortable and secure,…
Q: Gianya, what is your class year and major? A: I am class of 2014 and I am most likely majoring in psychology. Q: What is your favorite class this semester? A: My favorite class this semester is social psychology because of the professor, Scott Plous. And of course, as a psychology major, I love anything psych related. Professor Plous uses examples that we deal with in everyday life to help us understand different studies that were done in the ’50s and ’60s. One specific example that he used was advertisements in magazines to demonstrate a concept called "the Pygmalion effect,"…
Cheryl-Ann Hagner, formerly director of university events and scheduling, became the director of graduate student services on Sept. 12. Hagner came to Wesleyan in 2001, and has served as director of events and scheduling since 2006. Over the past five years, Hagner and her team have played a critical role in implementing the online Event Management System (EMS), which now serves as the central scheduling software for spaces and events across campus. Hagner has led the effort to streamline the room scheduling process during a time when event bookings at Wesleyan have more than doubled to more than 18,000 events per…
James McGuire's recent book Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010) was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2010 and won the 2011 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. McGuire is professor and chair in the Department of Government and a member of the Latin American Studies Program at Wesleyan. The Stein Rokkan Prize is awarded annually by the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and the University of Bergen (Norway), in memory of Professor Stein Rokkan, who was an eminent social scientist at the…
Bill HolderJohn Gudvangen, Wesleyan's new director of financial aid, is featured in the Sept. 28 Chronicle of Higher Education's "Newly Minted" section. Despite being apart from his family (in Colorado) Mr. Gudvangen is excited to begin his new adventure in Connecticut. “I knew all along that I was taking a leap to leave my very great life and move off to someplace 1,900 miles away,” he says in the article, “but for me and my family, even though we’re apart, it’s a great life event.” After being on one campus for more than 20 years, Gudvangen is eager to get to…
Richard Grossman, professor of economics, served as program chair of the annual meetings of the Economic History Association Sept. 9-11 in Boston, Mass. Grossman was responsible for coordinating the work of the four member selection panel in choosing 45 papers. He also organized these into 15 sessions, selected and recruited discussants, session chairs, plenary speakers and graduate student poster presenters. More information of the annual meeting is online here.
Brian KattenWhen asked about his strongest football memory from his playing days at Wesleyan, Sandy Herzlich ’81 came up with a 20-7 win at Amherst in 1979. “We beat Amherst up there in just a great game,” Sandy recounted. “Kosty [defensive coordinator Peter Kostacopoulos] put in a wild game plan and we were shuttling personnel in and out, and it worked. I remember that as being a very satisfying win.” Head Coach Bill Macdermott called it “one of the best defensive games I’ve ever seen Wesleyan play.” Mac was in his ninth season at the helm. Sandy’s memory of his first…
Justin Kurian ’94 has published his first novel, The Sunlight Lies Beyond (Regent Press), whose protagonist John Arden, a disillusioned American from a Wall Street background, lives in Romania in 1992, a country in transition three years after the collapse of the Communist regime. His life becomes entangled with various people caught in a tumultuous world, among them actors at the National Opera and a talented, ambitious businesswoman who is repressed by society. Arden finds that if he can successfully confront the tribulations ahead, he may possibly vanquish his inner demons. Kurian recently shared some thoughts about working on the…
“Just Look at What You Did!” is the headline on a Nicholas Kristof column, letting readers know that his request that they commemorate Mother’s Day with donations led to a $135,000 gift to Shining Hope for Communities, a project in the Kibera slum of Kenya led by Kennedy Odede ’12 and Jessica Posner ’09. Kirstof writes: “So while in Kenya recently, I dropped by to see what was being done with your money. In the grim alleys of the Kibera slum in the capital of Nairobi, I found a dazzling girls’ school being built with some of those donations —…
Anne Adelman ’83 is the co-author (with Karry Malawista and Catherine Anderson) of Wearing My Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories: Learning Psychodynamic Concepts from Life (Columbia University Press), a book that is certain to enliven psychodynamic theory for students, teachers, clinicians, and others eager to learn the ins and outs of practice. The authors share amusing, poignant, and sometimes difficult stories and reflections from their personal and professional lives as they invite readers to explore the complex underpinnings of the profession, along with analytical theory’s esoteric nature. The vehicle of the story is an integral part of psychodynamic practice…