Gabe Rosenberg '16Hari Krishnan, assistant professor of dance, was featured in two recent journals, The Dance Currant and Religion Compass. The Dance Currant article, “The Singular Path of Hari Krishnan,” discusses Krishnan’s solo at “The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth,” a concert of original choreography for the 80th anniversary season of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Krishnan also appears as the subject of The Religion Compass article, “Innovations in Contemporary Indian Dance: From Religious and Mythological Roots in Classical Bharatanatyam.” The three-part essay traces a history of the revival of bharatanatyam, citing Krishnan as a pioneer of Contemporary Indian Dance. Krishnan…
For the first time, 88.1 FM WESU was elected the "Best College Radio Station" in the 2013 Hartford Advocate Readers Poll. WESU is Wesleyan’s non-commercial college and community radio station, reaching an audience of 1 million people throughout Connecticut and southern Massachusetts. The station offers a wide variation of music and free form shows, as well as a schedule of public affairs and independent and alternative news programming. On last year’s Hartford Advocate Readers Poll, WESU placed third, behind 91.7 FM WHUS, from the University of Connecticut, and 91.3 FM WWUH, from the University of Hartford. Rob DeRosa, host of…
Five years ago, Terrance “Munch” Williams ’02 began coaching a group of 12-year-old boys, playing basketball in the gym of a New York City recreation center. Now, that same group of boys is ranked first in the country, champions of the 16u Invitational Division at the Las Vegas Fab 48 tournament. The boys are members of Team SCAN, an afterschool program devoted to developing student athletes academically, socially and athletically in the South Bronx and East Harlem areas. Under the management and coaching of Justin Weir ’02, Williams, Andre Charles ’06 and Jason Forde ’01 work with Team SCAN to…
David LowAcclaimed National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita ’71 has just published a new book of photographs Shangri-La: Along the Tea Road to Lhasa (White Star Publishers). His latest photography collection is a rare, intimate look into the Tibet’s changing world—both ancient and modern, sacred and commonplace, the rarefied and the gritty—before the legends and mysteries of the Chamagudao, the Tea Horse Road, disappear into the Tibetan mist. Yamashita captures stunning images of the Tea Horse Road, which winds through dizzying mountain passes, across famed rivers like the Mekong and the Yangtze, and past monasteries and meadows in a circuitous route from Sichuan…
The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering recently appointed John Keith ’01 as assistant professor and the inaugural R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow. With funding from a 2012 Richard King Mellon Foundation grant, the university’s Center for Energy brought in Keith as part of a program to build an interdisciplinary foundation toward energy research, focusing on functional materials for energy applications. Keith’s research will focus on developing and applying computational methods to enhance processes that convert CO2 and water into useful chemicals and fuels. By collaborating with experimentalists, Keith aims to contribute to finding economically feasible routes for energy solutions,…
As part of its recent “Legends of Sedimentology” event, The Houston Geological Society named George Devries Klein ’54 alongside three other speakers as having made a substantial contribution to the field of sedimentology.Klein is a sedimentologist, sedimentary geologist, sequence stratigrapher, basin analyst, regional geologist, petroleum geologist, and author of 383 papers, books, reports, abstracts, and reviews. He opened his consulting firm, SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc. in Houston, Tex. in 1996, after serving for three years as the executive director of the New Jersey Marine Science Consortium and as New Jersey Sea Grant Director. He is also the author of Rocknocker:…
Attorney Mike MacClary ’93, a partner of Burns & Levinson LLP, has been selected as the 2013 President of the Massachusetts Real Estate Bar Association (REBA). MacClary works in Burns & Levinson’s Franchise and Schools & Colleges practice groups, focusing on commercial real estate conveyancing and leasing. He also counsels charter schools on issues of leasing, property acquisition, financing, and governance. Before joining Burns & Levinson in 2004, MacClary was an associate at Hale and Dorr, LLP, and at Adelson, Golden, Loria & Simons. He also currently serves on the board of directors at the Middlesex Human Services Agency. A…
The chauffeur service Tristar Worldwide received the United Kingdom’s prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. This is the country’s highest accolade for business success. With Mike Fogarty ’90 as United States CEO and Brian Fogarty ’98 as the general manger of the Boston office, the company offers a variety of chauffeur services for international corporations and travel companies, providing airport transfer services as well as ground support for major international events, conventions and financial roadshows. One of the world’s largest chauffeur businesses, with more than 500 vehicles and 650 employees in the United Kingdom alone, Tristar operates in…
Olivia DrakeKim Diver, visiting assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, received an $18,500 grant from the KECK Geology Consortium on Jan. 15. The award will support an undergraduate research program on "GIS Approach to Water-Level Change: Potential Effects of Water-Level Changes on Island Ecosystems," this summer.
The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving presented a $5,000 grant to Wesleyan's Center for Prison Education program. The grant will support the center through Dec. 9, 2013. The grant was made possible through the generosity of the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation.
On Feb. 15, The Green Street Arts Center was awarded 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.
Lauren RubensteinThe journal Cognition and Emotion published a new paper by Assistant Professor of Psychology Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera and former post-doctoral fellow in psychology Toshie Imada. The paper, titled, "Perceived social image and life satisfaction across cultures," studies the relationship between perceived social image and life satisfaction for Indian, Pakistani/Bangladeshi, White British and European American men and women. Participants completed a survey on the cultural importance of social image, positive and negative emotions, academic achievement and perceived social image. For Indian and Pakistani/Bangladeshi participants, who generally valued social image more than White British and European American participants, positive perceived social image predicted life satisfaction…