Olivia DrakeWesleyan’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,…
Nearly half of the nation’s students - 44 percent - are students of color, but only one of every six teachers is a teacher of color. To help recruit, support and retain individuals of color as K-12 public school teachers, the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color offers scholarships to to ensure that greater numbers of highly qualified teachers of color enter public school classrooms around the country. This year, the Fund awarded fellowships to two Wesleyan seniors: Randyl Wilkerson '12 and Nastassia Williams '12. Wilkerson, an English major, and Williams, an African American Studies major, were chosen…
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In Bangladesh, more than 100,000 children die every year of intestinal diseases. About 31 million people are without access to safe drinking water and 99.9 million people lack proper sanitation. About 80 percent of the wells in more than 8,000 villages are contaminated. Tasmiha Khan '12, founder of the Wesleyan chapter of Brighter Dawns, has spent the past four years determined to help sanitary and living conditions in a slum in Khalishpur, Khulna. Through fund-raising, partnering with NGOs and grant applications, the Wesleyan chapter has teamed up with other Brighter Dawns chapters in the country to distribute more than 1,000 sanitary…
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Q: Liz, what attracted you to Wesleyan and the Wasch Center for Retired Faculty? A: I so enjoy working in higher ed, Wesleyan seemed like a good place to start. When I learned about the position at the Wasch Center, I immediately thought it would be a good fit since I worked closely with faculty in my last job. Q: Please describe your role as an administrative assistant. A: The days can vary greatly. Lately I’ve been busy preparing for the upcoming semester for WILL (the Wesleyan Institute for Lifetime Learning). This entails overseeing the printing and mailing of brochures and managing course…