Olivia DrakeMichael Calter, associate professor of chemistry, received a $472,490 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his study titled “Asymmetric C-C Bond-Forming Reactions Catalyzed by Cinchona Alkaloid Derivatives.” The grant will fund this research through July 31, 2013. The project described was supported by Award Number R15GM094764 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
Michael Singer, associate professor of biology, associate professor of environmental studies, received a $10,000 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation for “The Role of Toxin Complementation in Herbivore Defense.” The award will support graduate student Peri Mason's doctoral dissertation.
[youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Rf3ZM8KGY&feature=channel[/youtube] Seventy international students, including 11 Freeman Scholars, arrived on campus during the last week of August for International Student Orientation (ISO) for the Class of 2014. A combination of information sessions, introductions and celebrations, ISO was held from Aug. 29-31, and allowed international students the opportunity to get acclimated with Wesleyan and its surroundings before they joined their fellow members of the Class of 2014 for New Student Orientation on Sept. 1. The program is designed provide a comprehensive introduction to Wesleyan and help international students begin to build a foundation for their academic and co-curricular success.…
The Class of 2014 moved in on Arrival Day 2010 Sept. 1. Below are videos and photos of the event: Wesleyan University Arrival Day highlights: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ea8EY8H5dc&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Rebecca Koppel '14: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QKflwVdqIY&feature=channel[/youtube] Nathan Repasz '14: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtJAz_MytfA&feature=channel[/youtube] Catherine Morita '14: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_exwnOSp2lQ&feature=channel[/youtube] Isabelle Rode '14: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GgfgAFPNKY&feature=channel[/youtube] An excerpt from the "Address to Families" by Wesleyan President Michael Roth is online here. (Photos by Olivia Drake and Cora Lautze '11) Read a Wesleyan Connection story about Arrival Day here. Check out photos and video of International Student Orientation here.
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Ron Jenkins, professor of theater, is the author of the 330-page book, Rua Bineda in Bali: Counterfeit Justice in the Trial of Nyoman Gunarsa, published by the Indonesian University of the Arts, 2010. The book focuses on how a Balinese painter, puppet-master and a Brahmin priest perceive a landmark court case involving art forgery and identity theft. Read more about this book in a “5 Questions With . . .” profile at https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/09/02/5-questions-with-professor-of-theater-ron-jenkins/.
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On July 11, Craig Malamut ’12 photographed a pacific solar eclipse 2,500 miles west of South America. As a Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium Summer Fellow, summer exchange student, Malamut had the opportunity to travel to Easter Island with a group from Williams College. The last time an eclipse occurred over the island was in 591 A.D. The expedition was led by Jay Pasachoff, the Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and chair of the International Astronomical Union's Working Group on Eclipses. This was Pasachoff's 51st solar eclipse study; it was Malamut’s first. “Before getting this position, I was…
Wesleyan has announced the following promotions of faculty, effective July 1, 2010: Promotion with Tenure During the academic year, the Wesleyan Board of Trustees maintains an ongoing process of tenure case consideration. During its most recent review, the Board awarded tenure to one faculty member effective July 1, 2010. Michael Singer, associate professor of biology, was appointed assistant professor at Wesleyan in 2004. Previously he was postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona’s Center for Insect Science, in Tucson. Singer’s research examines the evolutionary ecology of tri-trophic interactions between plants, herbivores and carnivores. In considering (more…)