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Google employee Doug Cody ’09 visited campus May 10 to record images for Google Maps. Here are some photos of the man-powered Google-bike that hauls the camera and computer:
Q: Tara, when did you join Wesleyan's Office of Admission? A: I started working at Wesleyan in July of 2007. Q: What are they key ways you recruit students to Wesleyan? A: We recruit students in many different ways. Prospective students and their families visit our campus at all times of the year. We also travel all over the country and the world to spread the word about Wesleyan. We see every activity we undertake as recruiting. Q: What percentage of your time is spent traveling? Which regions of the country do you oversee? A: I spend about six to eight weeks…
Jan Naegele, professor of biology, professor of neuroscience and behavior, is the author of "Tangled Roots: Digging Deeper into Astrocyte or Interneuron Dysfunction in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy," published in Epilepsy Currents, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2011. The article is online here. She's also the author of "STEP Regulation of Seizure Thresholds in the Hippocampus," published in Epilepsia by Wiley Publishers, 2011. The article is online here.
Jessica Sullivan '08; Barbara Juhasz, assistant professor of psychology; and Hilary Barth, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, are the co-authors of a paper titled, "Adults’ number-line estimation strategies: Evidence from eye movements," published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Issue 18, pages 557-563, in June 2011.
Barb Juhasz, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, and Rachel Berkowitz '09 are the co-authors of "Effects of morphological families on English compound word recognition: A multitask investigation," published in Language and Cognitive Processes, Issue 26, pages 653-682, in 2011.
Sumarsam, University Professor of Music, is the author of the essay, "Past and Present Issues of Islam within the Central Javanese Gamelan and Wayang," published in Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia by Oxford University Press, pages 45-79, in 2011. According to the abstract: "Sumarsam's contribution to the volume addresses Islam in the context and development of the Javanese gamelan and wayang kulit shadow play. The chapter uniquely combines the interpretation of primarily Javanese and European texts, the author's personal experience as teacher, performer, and practitioner of gamelan and wayang kulit, and a assessment of the public attitudes of…
Suzanne O'Connell, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, director of the Service Learning Center, received a grant worth $21,000 from the Keck Geology Consortium on April 27. The award will support an undergraduate research project titled "Sediment Dynamics in the Lower Connecticut River" this summer.
Fred Cohan, professor of biology, professor of environmental studies, and biology graduate student Sarah Kopac received a $20,000 Connecticut Space Grant Consortium Training Grant on March 9. The award, which is subcontracted through the University of Hartford, supports a study titled "The Speciation of Bacillus Subtilis along a natural Salinity Gradient in Death Valley."
Sumarsam MA '76, University Professor of Music, participated in an ethnomusicology panel during the State of Indonesian Studies Conference April 28 at Cornell University. Sumarsam spoke on "Javanese Music Historiography: The Lost Gamelan of Gresik." The interdisciplinary conference focused on Indonesia's anthropology, art history, history, language, government and ethnomusicology. Marc Perlman MA '78, Ph.D. '94, associate professor at Brown University; Martin Hatch '63, MA'69, associate professor at Cornell University; Kaja McGowan '82, associate professor at Cornell; and Christopher Miller MA '02, a Wesleyan ethnomusicology Ph.D. candidate, also participated in the conference. The conference was hosted by Cornell's Southeast Asian Program.…
Peter Staye, associate director of utilities for Physical Plant-Facilities, was featured in the May 16 edition of The Hartford Business Journal. In the article, titled "Energy Saving Projects Focus on Measurable Results," Staye explained how Wesleyan has invested more than $6.5 million into a variety of innovative, energy-saving measures. Wesleyan has reduced energy about 22 percent since 2005, but the focus is now shifting to a more challenging initiative - changing the culture of energy use on campus. "Not that long ago, energy was abundant and cheap. Now it's neither, but there is still the feeling that everyone should have…