Olivia DrakeThe MINDS Foundation, an organization started by Raghu Appasani ’12, was recently featured in the June 6 Huffington Post. The MINDS Foundation is working to eradicate mental illness stigmas and provide mental healthcare services to patients in rural villages in India. According to the article, the conditions of many mental health facilities are inexcusable; people lack basic human dignity, and necessities such as clothes, clean water, and food; they are often locked away in prison-like rooms; and lack even the most basic legal protections. Since 2012, the MINDS Foundation has educated nearly 1,000 individuals, and is currently treating 36 patients suffering…
Peter Rutland, the Colin and Nancy Campbell Chair of Government, gave a lecture on "Democracy and Capitalism" at the Urals State University in Yekaterinburg, Russia on May 31. He published an opinion piece about the region's new governor in the Moscow Times on June 3. On June 9, he attended a meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian President's State Academy for Economics and Public Administration, to discuss the curriculum and select faculty for a new B.A. in Comparative Politics.
Ulrich Plass, associate professor of German studies, presented a talk titled “Metaphysics and the Body: Adorno and Nietzsche on Living Rightly” at the Philosophy Department of the University of South Florida in April. His lecture compared Nietzsche’s philosophy of the body with Adorno’s attempts to ground an ethics of the good in somatic experience, i.e., in the spontaneous articulation of impulses.
Elizabeth McAlister, associate professor of religion, associate professor of African American studies, associate professor of American studies, is the author of “Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies,” published in Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 2, pages 457-486, 2012; And “From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian History," published in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2012.
Wesleyan's Green Street Arts Center received a $350,000 grant from the State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, to administer Connecticut’s Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Schools Program throughout the state for the 2012-13 academic year.
The Center for the Arts received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for the 2012-13 academic year. A $34,000 grant will support the CFA's Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. Founded in 2010, the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) brings together artists, curators, scholars, presenters and cultural leaders to encourage innovative and relevant curatorial approaches to presenting time-based art. Another grant, worth $20,000, will support the presentation of dance artists.
Lauren RubensteinJohn Kirn discussed his neuroscience research into song learning and production in zebra finches
David PesciThe piece extols the new option and says universities must seek out similar ways to become more productive
Prof. Seth Redfield and Visiting Prof. Adam Jensen observe exoplanet shedding hot hydrogen
The three-year path gives students a lower-cost option to earn a Wesleyan degree
Craighead advises postponing scheduled tax increases until unemployment falls to a more acceptable level.
Biology's Laura Grabel received funds for the stem cell outreach program she has helped run since 2006.