Olivia DrakeBorn and raised in Africa's largest slum, Kennedy Odede ’12 witnessed abuse, rape, domestic violence and general mistreatment of school-aged girls in his community. His own sister, at age 17, gave birth to a baby recently as a result of rape. Sadly, this is the norm. Without access to education, many of the girls are forced into commercial sex work at early ages. The Kenyan Government views the slum, named Kibera, as an illegal settlement and therefore does not provide any services or government-funded schools. "Girls in my community lose their hope of ever attaining an education and ever leaving…
Q: Brian, you are an area coordinator in Residential Life. What housing areas do you oversee on campus? A: I oversee the Senior Wood Frames, High and Low Rise, and the Washington Street Residence Halls. Q: What does it mean to be an area coordinator? A: In general, an area coordinator has an understanding of all that goes on in their residential area and is one bridge between the administration and the needs of the students. This includes the training and supervision of student staff, overseeing the programming that occurs within the area, as well as the adjudication of conduct…
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Wesleyan University is the cover feature in the Spring 2009 edition of River & Shore Magazine. In an article titled "College by the River: Memories Cut in Brownstone," the author, Erik Hesselberg, writes about the history of Wesleyan, College Row's brownstone buildings, the crew team, Wesleyan's first president Wilbur Fisk, the former Judd Hall of Natural Science Exley Science Center, the Geology Department and more. Jelle de Boer, the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, emeritus, also is mentioned in an article titled "Reading the Rocks." The article focuses on De Boer's interests in plate tectonics and mentions his theory on…
Masami Imai, assistant professor of economics, assistant professor of East Asian studies, is the author of "Political Determinants of Government Loans in Japan," published in the Journal of Law and Economics.
Chris Hogendorn, associate professor of economics, co-chaired a session and presented his paper "Platform Contracting and Exclusivity" at the International Industrial Organization Conference at Northeastern University on April 4.
Christopher Doucette ’11, a molecular biology and biochemistry major, received an undergraduate research award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology’s Undergraduate Affiliate Network is a national organization comprised of university-based chapters dedicated to the advancement of undergraduate research, research-based undergraduate education, and K-12 outreach in biochemistry and molecular biology. Doucette will receive a research award in the amount of $1,000. The award is to be used for the purchase of research supplies and reagents. He is expected to present his findings and results at the next ASBMB annual…
Keera Bhandari ’08/MA ’09 presented her research at the 2009 Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), held in Denver, Colo. from April 2-4. The poster presentation, co-authored with Hilary Barth, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, was titled "Acquiring Knowledge from Others: Preschoolers’ Use of Testimony." Jessica Sullivan ’08 presented a poster co-authored by Kyle MacDonald ’10, Annie Paladino ’09 and Barth at the 2009 Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), titled "Children’s Mappings of Number Words to Large Numerosities."
Hilary Barth, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, co-authored an article with Jessica Sullivan ’08 and Ariel (Ballinger) Starr ’07. Their work on children’s numerical estimation will appear in the journal Cognitive Development in 2009.
Manju Hingorani, associate professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, is the co-author of "Mechanism of Cadmium-mediated Inhibition of Msh2-Msh6 Function in DNA Mismatch Repair," published in Biochemistry, March 25, 2009. Three undergraduates from three countries worked on the project in the Hingorani Lab at Wesleyan. They include Francis Noah Biro '09; Markus Wieland, an exchange student from University of Konstanz; and Karan Hingorani, Manju Hingorani's nephew from St. Xaviers College in Mumbai who did volunteer work in the lab. The project focused on how the heavy metal toxin Cadmium (found in cigarette smoke, industrial pollution, batteries, etc.) causes DNA damage…
Richard Grossman, chair and professor of economics, was quoted in "Narrow Spreads Strangling Triple-A Appeal," by Steven D. Jones, Dow Jones Newswire "In the Money" column, March 19, 2009. Grossman also gave radio interviews on the Treasury rescue plan on March 23 to WFLA (Tampa, FL), KFAQ (Tulsa, OK), KVI (Seattle, WA), KTRH (Houston, TX), and KOGO San Diego, CA.
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