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David Beveridge, the Joshua Boger University Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, professor of chemistry, was on sabbatical last spring at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India. He was visiting and working on research projects with Professor B. Jayaram, director of the Supercomputer Center for Bioinformatics, SCFBIO. Beveridge's former student, Becky Lee '10, was spending a year doing research in Jayaram's SCFBIO research group on a project in computational biophysics. Beveridge presented one of the thematic lectures on "Dynamic Allosterism" in a lecture series celebrating the 50th anniversary of IIT-Delhi.
Jessica Carso, managing director of the Green Street Arts Center, was named to The Hartford Business Journal's "40 Under 40" 2011 list. From more than 250 nominations for more than 160 individuals, the judges honed the list to the best and brightest. The Hartford Business Journal has been selecting "40 Under 40" honorees for 15 years. According to the Journal, "Among this year’s honorees, we have entrepreneurs and corporate executives, folks who work in nonprofits and folks who advise others on handling their profits. They all have achieved a level of success early in their careers, yet for each, the best…
More than 75 Wesleyan employees, contractors, friends and families participated in the Wesleyan Open Golf Tournament, held July 9 at Banner Country Club in Moodus, Conn. Golfers raised $1,500 for Middletown United Fathers, Inc. MUF is a non-profit organization that operates as an advocate for underprivileged and underserved men and youth of color throughout Middlesex Country. Areas of advocacy are centered on issue regarding education, health, finances, personal, family and community responsibility. Future programming will include ongoing fatherhood parenting classes as well as job placement services for youth and fathers participating in services through the organization. All participants pay an entry…
Ellen Thomas, research professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, has accepted an offer to become one of four science editors for the journal Geology, a prestigious journal in Earth Sciences. She starts her four-year term in January 2012 as the editor for paleoceanography, paleoclimate, stratigraphy, paleontology and related topics. The journal is published by the Geological Society of America, online at http://geology.gsapubs.org/. During the upcoming 2011 GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, held Oct. 9-12 in Minneapolis, Minn., Thomas will meet the other editors and GSA personnel in order to get organized for the commitment.
Shamar Chin '13 was featured in the Aug. 3 edition of The Middletown Press for her efforts running the Green Street Art Center's Young Women's Leadership Institute. The program is designed to empower girls in fifth through seventh grades and to teach them leadership through art, dance, music and writing. Chin, an environmental studies major, started volunteering at Green Street earlier this summer and took on the five-week summer program because she wanted to help young girls succeed. “Especially with what we see in the media, what is being presented to young women, I feel like we are expected to look…
A chapter written by Ákos Östör, professor of anthropology, emeritus, is featured in the Flavours of the Arts:
From Mughal India to Bollywood exhibition catalog for Geneva's Musée d'ethnographie. This pertinently illustrated book focuses on the close relationship between music, painting and film in northern India. His chapter is titled, "Living with Pictures. Study, Film and Life in Naya (West Bengal)."
Papers, articles and book chapters by Fred Cohan, professor of biology, are published in several publications including: "Community ecology of hot spring cyanobacterial mats: predominant populations and their functional potential," published in ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology, 2011; "Influence of molecular resolution on sequence-based discovery of ecological diversity among Synechococcus populations in an alkaline siliceous hot spring microbial mat," published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77:1359-1367, 2011; "Are species cohesive?—A view from bacteriology," published in Bacterial Population Genetics: A Tribute to Thomas S. Whittam, American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington, pages 43-65, 2011; "Species," a chapter published in…
Ishita Mukerji, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, director of graduate studies, is the co-author of "“HU Binding to a DNA Four-Way Junction Probed by Förster Resonance Energy Transfer," published in Biochemistry, issue 50, pages 1432–1441, 2011. This work specifically examines the Escherichia coli protein HU's four-way junction interaction using fluorescence spectroscopic methods. This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation.
Charles Sanislow, assistant professor of psychology, co-authored a study published in the August issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. The study reports on the prospective course of psychopathology and functioning for Borderline Personality Disorder. The work emanates from the Collaborative Personality Study led by a team of researchers of which Sanislow has been a member since the study began in 1996. The study is online here .
Articles by Masami Imai, director of the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, chair and associate professor of east asian studies, associate professor of economics, were published in two economic publications: "Elections and Political Risk: New Evidence from Political Prediction Markets in Taiwan," with Cameron Shelton, appeared in the Journal of Public Economics, 95 (7-8), August 2011. "Transmission of Liquidity Shock to Bank Credit: Evidence from Deposit Insurance Reform in Japan," with Seitaro Takarabe, appeared in the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, June 2011.