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Wesleyan President Michael Roth and Alan Rubacha, construction services consultant, hosted a "Squash Building Preview" tour April 26 for faculty, staff, construction contractors and local community leaders. The former Squash Building will house the Career Resource Center, College of Letters and the Art History Department. The Squash Building, located at the north end of College Row, was built in 1934. It closed in 2002. A grand reopening is scheduled for the January 2012. The renovation project expands the former squash building into classrooms and faculty offices. It will include a 17-foot addition to the west increasing the building size from…
By Ben Cohen '10, physical education intern Ask any group of NESCAC student-athletes why they chose their respective institutions, and each will likely mention the conference schools’ strength in both academics and athletics. But Joe Giaimo ’11 has taken things one step further. Giaimo, a captain on the Cardinal football and baseball squads, is leading a student forum this semester, CCIV420-02: "Leadership, Mentoring, and Coaching.” The forum evaluates effective forms of leadership, seeks out answers to what is leadership, defines it, dissects the changing conceptions of leadership, analyzes the psychology of leaders, and eventually discusses the difference between leadership and…
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Charles Sanislow, assistant professor in psychology, co-authored a prospective study of personality disorders and anxiety disorders. The work, published in the May issue of the Psychological Medicine, reported results from the NIH-funded Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders, a study which Sanislow has worked on since it began in 1996. The study is online here.
An article by Masami Imai, director and chair of the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, associate professor of economics, was published in Journal of International Business Studies, Issue 42, pages 406-426, in 2011. The article is titled "Related Lending and Banking Development," and is co-authored by Robert Cull and Stephen Haber.
Wesleyan's student organization Brighter Dawns received a Davis United World College Project for Peace grant worth $10,000. The funds will support Brighter Dawns' "Water Sanitation Project" in Khalishpur, Bangladesh for eight weeks this summer. Tasmiha Khan '12 and possibly Rajeeta Iyer '12 will oversee the project, which will include building tube wells, latrines and providing health seminars and jobs for women in one of the poorest slums in Khalishpur.