Lauren RubensteinTatge discusses year-long program to consider Muslim women today through the arts
BBC News features the real world impacts of Plous' popular Social Psychology MOOC
Professor of Economics Richard Grossman, author of Wrong: Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn to Them, was interviewed on Concord News Radio about policy decisions made in the aftermath of the financial crisis. "The actions that were taken in the wake of the financial crisis, I view as having been completely necessary. If you go back and look at the Great Depression,when the government didn't do enough and the central bank for sure didn't do enough, then you get a sense of how bad things can be," said Grossman. "When you're just a few inches away from financial Armageddon, even if the policy isn't…
Visiting Writer Charles Barber, director of The Connection Institute for Innovative Practice, will be the principal investigator, along with David Sells of Yale University, on a study peer mentoring of prisoners, thanks to a $295,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. The study is a two-year randomized trial involving 110 ex-offenders in New Haven, Bridgeport and other Connecticut cities — 55 will receive mentors, and 55 will not. "We will recruit clients from prisons, where mentors— who are former prisoners themselves, with at least five years of stability behind them — will meet with them two to three times, pre-release. Mentors will then…
Rutland: Hong Kong demonstrators not just demanding democracy, but asserting identity
Wesleyan is among a growing number of schools to no longer require applicants to submit scores
McAlister examines negative prayer, from Afro-Haitian vodou to Christian evangelicism
Johnston's associated photography exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Many people think of archaeology as taking place in exotic locations overseas, not in their own backyard. Yet archaeology projects are continuously being carried out all over the state of Connecticut. On Oct. 18, Wesleyan’s Archaeology Program and Office of Community Partnerships will present the Connecticut State Archaeology Fair to give the public a close-up look at some of these projects. Part of Archaeology Awareness Month in October, the fair will feature many hands-on exhibits and activities for adults and kids. Presenters will represent a full spectrum of archaeology in the state, ranging from local tribes and community groups to…
"Worlds Without End" offers "a genealogy of multiple-world cosmologies"
In this Q&A, meet campus tour guide Greg Tavarez ’16. He is an economics major, who runs on the Men’s Track and Field team, and is a member of the Invisible Men Collective.
Q: Welcome to Wesleyan, Professor Burge! Please fill us in on your life up to now. A: I’m originally from Michigan, and attended undergrad at Michigan Tech. I moved out to Massachusetts and worked on radar systems for quite a few years. I did a lot of off-site work traveling all around the country; it’s exciting to see the products you build in action. I always planned to go back to graduate school, and I decided to pursue a master’s in computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I started out there part time, but then an opportunity arose and I…