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A show on bullying in a Middletown neighborhood ,produced by Maddie Neufeld '12 and Harry Bartle '12, was recently featured on WNPR and GPRX radio. Neufeld and Bartle are co-producers of the Middletown Youth Radio Project. After submitting a proposal to Generation Public Radio Exchange (GPRX), Middletown Youth Radio Project was selected to produce a piece on bullying in Traverse Square, a federally subsidized complex in Middletown. "We wanted to understand what bullying might look like in a community. DJ DZhane and DJ Elizabethyano took on the project and went around Traverse Square with a microphone and recorder in hand, interviewing…
Ron Jenkins, professor of theater, is featured in the Feb. 24 issue of The Boston Globe for teaching a class at York Correctional Facility. Jenkins and his Wesleyan students teach the "Activism and Outreach Through Theater" course to inmates. While behind bars at York, students take workshops with Jenkins, learning plays by Shakespeare and Dante. According to the article, Jenkins has focused his career on theater as a catalyst for social change. That has meant working in Italy with Nobel laureate Dario Fo (whose play “Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas’’ Jenkins directed at the American Repertory Theater in 2001)…
Lauren RubensteinTasmiha Khan '12 will present the poster "Responses to Group Devaluation among American-Muslims" at the 2012 Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, May 24 - 27 in Chicago, Ill. In this poster, Khan will present results with her ongoing research with Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, assistant professor of psychology, on how American Muslims feel about negative societal images of their group. Khan has been working in Rodriguez Mosquera's Culture and Emotion Lab since 2009 where she is also involved in another research project on the meaning of honor among South Asian women.
Wesleyan’s Green Street Arts Center received a $75,000 grant from the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority (CHEFA) on March 1. The grant will support Green Street’s After School Program in 2012. CHEFA’s mission is to enhance the welfare and prosperity and improve the health and living conditions of the citizens of the State of Connecticut by providing access to tax-exempt financing and other financial assistance to institutions of higher education, healthcare institutions, childcare providers and nonprofit organizations. The grant was also featured in the March 1 Hartford Courant. Rob Rosenthal, the John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, provost and vice president…
Tanya Purdy, director of health education, and Elisa Del Valle, associate director of student activities and leadership development, received a $600 grant from the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling. The grant was awarded on Feb. 14. The mini-grant will support an educational luncheon for students in health promotion leadership roles; educational outreach on signs of problem gambling to recognize in a friend; and a campaign to examine and dispel myths about gambling.
Professor Ellen Nerenberg, chairperson of the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, recently published a new book, Body of State: The Moro Affair, A Nation Divided. It offers a translation of Marco Baliani's acclaimed dramatic monologue, Corpo di Stato, concerning the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the terrorist Red Brigades. Nerenberg authored the translation along with Nicoletta Marini-Maio and Thomas Simpson. She also co-wrote a critical introduction to the book, with Marini-Maio. Corpo di Stato was commissioned by Italian state television in 1998 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the "Moro Affair." Through over 100 performances of Baliani's monologue since…
A translation by Sarah Ruden, visiting scholar in classics, was published in the The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Third Edition in 2012. Ruden's Lysistrata translation was first published in 2003 by Hackett Publishing. Lysistrata is Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favors with their husbands until they agree to cease fighting. The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most-trusted anthology of world literature available. Guided by the advice of more than 500 teachers of world literature and a panel of regional specialists,…
Gloster Aaron, assistant professor of biology and assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, has published a new study in PLoS ONE, an international, peer-reviewed online publication. The study is co-authored by four Wesleyan students: Jeffrey Walker BA '08/ MA '09, Greg Storch BA '10/MA '11, Bonnie Quach-Wong '12 and Julian Sonnenfeld '11. In this study, the researchers were able to produce a cortical slice preparation that allows activity to propagate from neurons in one cortical hemisphere to the other hemisphere through the corpus callosum. The corpus callosum is the largest structure that connects the right and left halves of our…
David PesciU.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia will be the featured speaker at the annual Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression, which will be held 8 p.m., March 8, in Memorial Chapel. Tickets to the lecture in the chapel were scooped up almost immediately, as were tickets for the simulcast viewing at the Center for Film Studies. The lecture will also be simulcast in CFA Hall, PAC 001 and PAC 002 where tickets are not needed and seats are available. Justice Scalia's speech will be titled “The Originalist Approach to the First Amendment.” In addition to the speech,…
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