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Wesleyan welcomes several new employees to campus this fall. David Milch joined the Center for the Arts as a program coordinator for the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance on Sept. 12. Kimberly Alonzo was hired by the Mathematics and Computer Science Department as an administrative assistant on Oct. 5. Elizabeth Dagnall was hired by the Susan B. and William K. Wasch Center for Retired Faculty as an administrative assistant on Oct. 17. Paul Gagnon was hired by the Career Resource Center as an internship and civic engagement coordinator on Oct. 24. Richard Hodge was hired by the Public Safety…
Rachel Levenson '12 was featured in the Nov. 7 Jewish Daily Forward as one of "10 Young Jews, Making a Difference." In September, the Forward asked readers to nominate Jews, age 21 and younger, who are working to make a difference locally or globally. Levenson made the list for her efforts studying money-lending practices in Africa. “When I was part of the Jewish Community Teen Foundations, I was really drawn to… this question of, with limited resources, how do you maximize your effectiveness," she says in the article. Her research became part of a larger project led by schools — including Yale and…
Masami Imai, presented a paper titled "Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Constraints of the Open-Economy Trilemma" at three venues in Japan, including the Center for Economic Institutions of Hitotsubashi University; Keio University; and the Institute of Developing Economies-Japan External Trade Organization. The paper is co-authored with Peter Hull '10. Imai is the director and chair of the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies and associate professor of economics.
Elvin Lim, associate professor of government, provided a political analysis on "Why Republicans Can't Find their Candidate" in the Nov. 10 Faster Times. He discusses politicians Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin. "It is far from clear, then, that 2012 will be a Republican year," he writes."Conservatives have yet to explain away a fundamental puzzle: if government is so unnecessary, so inefficient, and so corrupt, why seek an office in it? This is possibly why the very brightest and savviest would-be candidates are in Wall Street, and can’t be bothered with an address change to Pennsylvania Avenue.…
Erika Fowler, assistant professor of government, received a grant worth $80,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The award will provide support to the Wesleyan Media Project through October 2013. The grant is shared with Bowdoin College and Washington State University.