Cynthia RockwellKenneth Kimmell '82 was named commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Previously he was general counsel for the executive office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, joining Governor Duval Patrick’s team in 2007. Energy and Environment secretary-designate Richard Sullivan has described Kimmell as the “legal lead” on all aspects of recent state energy and environmental policy. Kimmell has been credited with overseeing the state permitting of Cape Wind, the nation’s first off-shore wind project, as well as leading environmental permitting changes and drafting land-based wind energy siting reform legislation. Additionally, he has focused on the development and early implementation…
David LowThe New York Law Journal reports that “Katherine B. Forrest, a litigation partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore who specializes in antitrust and intellectual property, has left the firm to join the U.S. Department of Justice today as deputy assistant attorney general in the antitrust division.” Forrest ’86 will oversee operations for the division’s criminal and civil programs. Her portfolio will also include overseeing international issues and appellate policy for the division. She had been with Cravath since 1990 and made partner in 1998.
Bruce Peabody ’91, a constitutional law scholar at Fairleigh Dickinson University, is the editor and one of the authors of The Politics of Judicial Independence (Johns Hopkins University Press), a new volume that gathers together a range of scholars and experts to chart and explore the importance of criticisms of courts and judges—in the United States and abroad. While contributors consider attacks against the judiciary over the past four decades, several of them are especially interested in court critiques (and their implications for judicial independence) in the 21st century. The judiciary in the United States has been subject in recent…
Bradley Galer ’83, M.D., and Charles Argoff, M.D., are the authors of Defeat Chronic Pain Now! (Fair Winds Press), a survival guide to preventing, reversing, and managing chronic pain. Galer and Argoff present hidden and little known causes of common chronic pain conditions, how to avoid misdiagnosis, and the latest treatments under development including: Myofascial Dysfunction: The real (undiagnosed!) culprit in 90 percent of back and neck pain; DMARDS and NSAIDS: Two breakthrough drugs that promise significant relief for arthritis; Nutraceuticals: The natural wonder treatment for peripheral neuropathy; Focal heat trigger-point (FHTP) therapy: The new drug-free approach to migraine relief. This…
Olivia DrakeWinter Storm Benedict covered Wesleyan’s campus with about 2 feet of snow Jan. 12. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDrunRMQNSE[/youtube] View more photos on Wesleyan's Facebook Site.
Q: Phil, you came to Wesleyan six years ago this month. What were you hired in as, and when did you join the New Media Lab? A: I came to Wesleyan as a multimedia developer working for The Learning Objects Studio, helping to develop and produce web-based projects for the faculty. Over the years, I began to focus more and more on animation, since that was my background, and last fall, my title was switched over to animation and video specialist to reflect my new role. Q: As a member of ITS’s New Media Lab, what are your core responsibilities?…
Erinn Roos-Brown joined the Center for the Arts as a program manager on Nov. 1 Ying-Fei Chen joined the Center for Community Partnerships as an administrative assistant on Nov. 15. Eric Gershon joined the Office of University Communications as an editor/new media writer on Nov. 22. David Jackson joined the Upward Bound Program as a program coordinator on Dec. 20.
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