Olivia DrakeWesleyan football player Kyle Weiss '12 was featured in a Nov. 2 article titled "Weiss Carries on Family Tradition," published in The Day of New London, Conn. The story mentions that Weiss's father, grandfather and great-grandfather also played sports. According to the article, Weiss is making his own mark, adding to the family legacy. A junior, he's the starting punter and is ranked first in the New England Small College Athletic Conference in yards per kick at 37.4 per game. He also has a team-leading 20 receptions for the improved Cardinals (4-2 overall and in the conference). On the baseball…
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, assistant professor of religion, assistant professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, was a guest panelist at a conference titled “Christianity and the Global Politics of Sexuality” held Oct. 21 at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, New York University. Focusing specifically on sexuality, Rubenstein and other panelists discussed the ways in which transnational and non-governmental Christian organizations have an impact on legal and social policies in different areas where Christians may comprise a small minority or a larger percentage of the population. In addition, sexuality continues to rankle and even divide Christian churches themselves, as evidenced…
Edward Taylor, associate professor of mathematics; Petra Bonfert-Taylor, associate professor of mathematics; and David Bodznick, dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, professor of biology, professor of neuroscience and behavior, received a grant worth $199,924 from the National Science Foundation for their “Collaborative Research: Analytic and Geometric Methods in Limited Angle Tomosunthesis.” The grant expires Aug. 27, 2011.
Barry Chernoff, the Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies, professor of biology, chair of the Environmental Studies Program and director of the College of the Environment, received a $13,000 grant from The Nature Conservancy for his research titled “Fish and Benthic Invertebrate Assemblages-Zemko Dam.” The grant expires Aug. 15, 2011.
James McGuire, professor of government, professor of Latin American studies, is the author of Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America published by Cambridge University Press, 2010. Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized. These conclusions are based on case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa…
Christina Othon, assistant professor of physics, is the co-author of "Hydration Dynamics at Fluorinated Protein Surfaces," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 in 2010.
Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, assistant professor of psychology, is the lead author of "I fear your envy, I rejoice in your coveting. On the ambivalent experience of being envied by others," published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(5), 842-854 in 2010.
To view photos of Homecoming / Family Weekend 2010, visit one of our online galleries: http://www.wesleyan.edu/hcfw/2010/ http://www.facebook.com/wesleyan.university http://www.flickr.com/groups/wesleyan/ More photos will be posted in the November Wesleyan Connection.
President Michael S. Roth, tri-chair of the 75th anniversary Middlesex County United Way campaign, recalled the university's first campaign on behalf of United Way (then the Community Chest) in his Oct. 11 letter to the Wesleyan community. Noting that times were tough as the Great Depression lingered, he said, "The response at Wesleyan was remarkable. Every member of the Wesleyan faculty and staff stepped in and donated funds to help less fortunate neighbors meet their basic needs. "As then, our neighbors today are struggling in tough times. And as then, through the United Way, we can help." Through the campaign,…
Last fall, Stephen Devoto, associate professor of biology, associate professor of neuroscience and behavior, took on an unusual teaching engagement — to work with Peter Gottschalk, chair and professor of religion, in order to bring the science of evolution and animal development into Gottschalk’s course, "Religion, Science and Empire: Crucible of a Globalized World." “It was liberating to teach science in a different context than a typical science course with its attendant responsibility to cover a vast knowledge base, and to have students’ learning be driven by their interest in the intersection of science and religion,” Devoto says. “Students felt…
The American Physical Society awarded Chia Wei "Wade" Hsu ’10 with its prestigious LeRoy Apker Award for his achievements while at Wesleyan. The American Physical Society awards the Apker Award to only one student from a Ph.D-granting institution each year. Reinhold Blümel, the Charlotte Agusta Ayres Professor of Physics, calls it a "mini-Nobel Prize." The award provides encouragement to young physicists who have demonstrated great potential for future scientific accomplishment. “This means that Wade out-competed students from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton and CalTech,” says Wade's former advisor Francis Starr, associate professor of physics. “He’s the best of the best.” On…
Wesleyan's Green Street Arts Center continues its Fall 2010 Sunday Salon Discussion Series with talks by J. Kehaulani Kauanui, associate professor of American studies and anthropology on Oct. 24, and Stephanie Weiner, associate professor of English, on Nov. 21. The Sunday Salon Discussions are informal lectures by Wesleyan's faculty. The Wesleyan and local communities are invited to attend. David Beveridge, the Joshua Boger University Professor of the Sciences and Mathematics, professor of chemistry, hosts the event. Each salon includes opportunity for socializing as well as a reception with light refreshments. On Oct. 24 from 2 to 3:30 p.m., J. Kehaulani Kauanui will…