Olivia DrakeAngel Gil-Ordóñez, director of private lessons, chamber music and ensembles, adjunct professor of music, music director of the Wesleyan Orchestra and Wesleyan Concert Choir, received a grant from Spain's Ministry of Culture and that of Foreign Affairs to conduct the orchestra in Falla and Flamenco April 17 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Falla and Flamenco is a program of three works by Manuel de Falla (1876—1946) that imbue 20th-century music with flamenco’s ancient gypsy traditions. Gil-Ordóñez's musicians will premiere "The Three Cornered Hat," in the U.S. for which Picasso created the scenery and costumes for the original. This original version was a ballet/pantomime called "El…
Matthew Kurtz, assistant professor of psychology, was interviewed and quoted in a Feb. 10 issue of Medscape Medical News. The article is titled "Mixed Results for Computer-Assisted Cognitive Remediation in Schizophrenia." Although computer-assisted cognitive remediation can help patients with schizophrenia improve their performance on training tests, these improvements do not generalize to broader neuropsychological or functional outcome measures, according to new research. The remediation program study is published in the February issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. "I thought this was a very well-conducted study with a strong sample size and paradoxical findings," Kurtz says in the article. "It's…
Brenda Hillman's book, Practical Water, published by Wesleyan University Press in 2009, was named a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in the Poetry category. The 124-page book is part of the Wesleyan University Press's Poetry Series. Publishers Weekly says "Hillman's eighth collection of poems is the third in her series of book-length meditations on the elements. In these aesthetically challenging, yet often surprisingly clear poems, which span the personal, political and environmental, water is simultaneously a transparent vessel, a mirror and an endangered resource. This is one of the most unusual and compelling books so far this year."
Q: Mert, why do students call you "the pizza man?" A: Because I make pizzas. It's all I do. Pizza and special stuffed breads. I love my job. Pizza makes students happy. Q: How long have you been making pizza? A: This is my third year making pizza, but I've been working for Dining Services for 14 years. There's also a pizza maker on the evening shift and weekends. Q: What's the pizza-making process? A: The bakers make the dough, but I am responsible for stretching it out. I make 45 pizzas a day. I roast fresh rosemary and garlic…
Bruce McKenna ’84 is the lead writer for the HBO series The Pacific. Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks produced this as follow up to Band of Brothers, for which McKenna also wrote. According to a Feb. 28 article in The Los Angeles Times, McKenna accompanied a locations crew to a tiny coral island near Guam known as Peleliu to prepare for the $200M show. A ridge there is laced with hundreds of caves -- undisturbed for more than half a century -- where Japanese troops hid out from U.S. Marines during one of the WWII's deadliest conflicts. "There are still skeletons…
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John Bonin, the Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Science, tutor in the College of Social Studies, is the co-author of "Banking in Transition Countries, Chapter 33 in the Oxford Handbook of Banking. The book is published by Oxford University Press, Oxford U.K., 2010, pages 844–867.
Hilary Barth, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, and Annie Paladino ’09, are the authors of a new article on children’s numerical thinking, based on data collected by Paladino with support from her Hughes fellowship for research in the life sciences. The article is titled "The development of numerical estimation: Evidence against a representational shift." It will appear in the journal Developmental Science in 2010.