Olivia DrakeFor two years, music graduate student Garrett Field will live in Sri Lanka studying the lives, music, poetry and writing of three composers who influenced Jatika Gi, the Sinhala nationalist poetry-song. As a 2010 recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship, Field will have the opportunity to complete his dissertation on Sunil Santha, W.D. Amaradeva, and Ananda Samarakone - whose careers, music, and poetry articulated different strands of Sinhalese nationalist thought. The fellowship comes with a $26,000 award. “The Jatika Gi artists played a significant role in the development of Sinhala cultural nationalism and thus served as…
The Greek Titan Metis was considered the goddess of wisdom and deep thought. Her name in Greek also means “wisdom combined with cunning,” a highly desirable personality trait to the ancient Athenians. This year, a group of Wesleyan students with a knowledge and interest in Classical studies, released their own collection of “cunning wisdom” in a publication titled Wesleyan Metis. The Metis editorial board draws on the abilities and creativity of Wesleyan students to showcase their best examples of undergraduate Classics writing. “Classical studies go far beyond ancient languages and, as evidenced by the essays in the journal, include studies…
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Barbara Juhasz, assistant professor of psychology, is the co-author of “Parafoveal processing in reading is reduced across a morphological boundary,” published in Cognition, 116, pages 136-142, in 2010.
Frank Kuan, executive director of the Center for Community Partnerships, received the inaugural Al Award from the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce Central Business Bureau (CBB) on June 3. The award is named after Middletown Deputy Fire Marshal Al Santostefano, who has been a member of the CBB for 25 years, and is given to a member of the CBB who provides service above and beyond what is required or expected. The CBB presents this award to one of its members each year. Kuan is a graduate of California State University at Fresno and began his career in Middlesex County as a counselor…
The Green Street Arts Center received a grant from the Wallis Foundation to support its Afterschool Musical Mentors program. The $15,000 award was funded May 14
Wesleyan’s Prison Education Program at Cheshire Correctional Institution received a $5,000 gift from the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The award date was May 2.
The Women’s’ Ice Hockey Program and Wesleyan Fund Cardinal Scholarship each received a $10,000 grant from the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, Texas. The award will be applied in 2011.
Barry Chernoff, the Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies, professor of earth and environmental sciences, professor of biology and director of the Environmental Studies Certificate Program, is the co-author of "A new species of suckermouth armored catfish, Pseudancistrus kwinti (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Copename River drainage, Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname," published in Zootaxa 2332:40-48, 2010.