Olivia DrakeJolee West, director of academic computing services, director of digital projects, was chosen to participate in the 2009 Frye Leadership Institute for library and information professionals. The intensive summer program takes place at Emory University from May 31 to June 11. Following the two week session at Emory, each participant works on a year-long practicum at their institution, and the classes remain in contact through e-mail groups and subsequent conferences. Ganesan "Ravi" Ravishanker, associate vice president for Information Technology Services, nominated West for the Leadership Institute. The nationally competitive application process selects around 45 participants from an average of 200-250…
Rob Rosenthal, professor of sociology, spoke at a conference titled "Celebrating Seattle's Striking History," sponsored by the University of Washington Department of History. The conference was held Feb. 6 at the Seattle Labor Temple to commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Seattle General Strike of 1919. Rosenthal spoke about the strike, and also about a rock opera he wrote and recorded in 1986 with his band, The Fuse, about the strike. The Seattle Labor Chorus sung two songs from the album. In addition, Rosenthal was interviewed about his song on the NPR station in Portland, KBOO, and the NPR station in Seattle, KUOW.
Krishna Winston, the Marcus L. Taft Professor of German Language and Literature, dean of the Arts and Humanities and coordinator of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, participated in a meeting with Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass Jan. 18-24 in Luebeck, Germany. She is the English-language translator for Grass's work and one of 16 people working on translations of his new, semi-autobiographical novel, The Box, for publication worldwide.
The Chicago Tribune reviewed Look, What I Don't Understand, a solo-performance by Anthony Nikolchev ’08, co-directed by the Assistant Professor of Theater Yuriy Kordonskiy, lighting design by Anna Martin ’09. The production was originally developed as a student show at Wesleyan and moved to its four-week professional run at the Chicago Athenaeum Theatre in January 2009. This one-man drama draws upon historical narratives experienced by Nikolchev's family during their 1960s escape from the totalitarian hostility of communist Bulgaria to detainment in America, challenging himself and audiences to comprehend the experience of past generations through the perspective of present generations. Other…
Ellen Thomas, research professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, attended the 'Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene' meeting in New Zealand in January. She was on the organizing committee for this meeting, and presented an invited talk during the 'Greenhouse Earth Symposium,' an event presenting the highlights of relevant research to the general public. Thomas also was the co-author on two other talks, which she presented with her Ph.D students from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Leuven University in Belgium. She also co-authored a poster Laia Alegret from Zaragoza University in Spain. Alegret spent two…
For 37 years, John Paoletti has explored the ideas and histories that produced both well-known and not so well-known works of Renaissance and modern art with thousands of Wesleyan students. This May, Paoletti will retire from Wesleyan's Art and Art History Department, ending a longtime career of teaching artists such as Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Donatello, and Michelangelo as well as the patronage of the Medici family. "I will really miss working with the Wesleyan students and faculty colleagues across the curriculum," Paoletti says from his office in the Davison Art Center. "Both have always been keenly critical of the…
Gary Yohe, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, has been appointed to the Adaptation Subcommittee of the Connecticut Governor’s Steering Committee on Climate Change, 2008-2010. He also has been selected to be a member of the National Research Council Committee on America’s Climate Choices: Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change, 2008-2011. The panel will host a Climate Summit in DC at the end of March and provide Congress and the Administration a review of the panel’s "Choices" by the end of the year. A synthetic blueprint will then be created by an umbrella panel. Yohe also helped organize…
A photograph by Jenny Fields ’03, digital asset and project coordinator for University Communications, was chosen to be part of the Shoreline Arts Alliance's IMAGES photography exhibit. The annual, juried photography competition is open to all residents of Connecticut and is highly regarded for excellence statewide. The exhibition will run from Feb. 9-28 at the Guilford Art Center, 411 Church Street, Guilford, Conn. The gallery is open from noon to 4 p.m. daily. The photo, titled "Rest," is part of a series Fields photographed to chronicle the end of her grandmother's life. "It's true that art heals," Fields writes in…
Robert Herrick III was hired by the Psychology Department as a web programmer on Feb. 9. Edgardo Quinones was hired by the Green Street Arts Center as the technical and maintenance coordinator on Feb. 16.
Rich Langer, store assistant at the Cardinal Technology Center, will be inducted into the Regional School District 17 (Haddam and Killingworth, Conn.) Hall of Fame 2009 May 30. The Hall of Fame was formed to honor the contributions made by coaches, former student athletes and others to the various athletic programs offered as a part of the Regional School District 17 schools. The Hall of Fame Class of 2009 will recognize the Langer's volleyball coaching career.
Ali Fourney ’09 has become the all-time leading scorer for Wesleyan women's basketball. The 18 points Founey scored 18 during a 66-55 loss at Emmanuel College in Boston, Mass. on Feb. 4. gave her a career total of 1,424 points, the most in Wesleyan's program history. She surpassed the previous career points scoring record of 1,416 held by Angie Palmer '95. Fourney, and Wesleyan Women's Basketball still have two more regular season games before the NESCAC tournament begins Feb. 21. For more information click here.
The program, "The Middletown Youth Radio Project" (MYRP) on Wesleyan's station WESU 88.1 FM was featured in the Feb. 3 edition of The Christian Science Monitor. MYRP partners 12 elementary and middle-school students with eight Wesleyan University student mentors. Every Friday night, two 10- to 12-year-old DJs put on their headsets in the WESU radio studios and host their own half-hour radio show. Both Wesleyan students and the neighborhood kids benefit from MYRP, says Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, vice president of diversity and strategic partnerships, and Ben Michael, WESU station manager. "The program ... connects students and their curricula work with hands-on…