Olivia DrakeMasami Imai, assistant professor of economics, East Asian studies, is the author of “Ideologies, vested interest groups, and postal saving privatization in Japan," published in Public Choice August 2008. The privatization of Japan’s postal saving system has been a politically charged issue since it first started being debated in the late 1980s, and yet it provides a useful setting in which political economy of economic policy-making can be investigated empirically. Analyzing the pre-election survey of the House of Representatives candidates in 2003 and also the voting patterns of Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members on a set of postal privatization bills…
Priscilla Meyer, professor of Russian language and literature, is the author of How the Russians Read the French: Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, published in January 2009 by the University of Wisconsin Press. In How the Russians Read the French, Meyer shows how Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Lev Tolstoy engaged with French literature and culture to define their own positions as Russian writers with specifically Russian aesthetics and moral values. Rejecting French sensationalism and what they perceived as a lack of spirituality among Westerners, these three writers created moral and philosophical works of art that answered French decadence and "desacralization" with…
Gloster Aaron, assistant professor of biology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, is the co-author of "Statistical Significance of Precisely Repeated Intracellular Synaptic Patterns," published in PLoS ONE 3(12): e3983, Dec. 19, 2008.
Lisa Dierker, professor of psychology, has received a $50,000 research grant from the Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust. The award will support her work focusing on individual differences in the development of addiction. This research is aimed at identifying youth at greatest risk for dependence at various levels of alcohol and tobacco exposure.
(more…)
(more…)
Richard Kendall ’74, a senior partner in the Los Angeles office of the law firm Irell & Manella, represented the National Resources Defense Council in a case involving whales and the U.S. Navy that recently was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Environmental groups had contended that the Navy’s use of underwater sonar was harming whales and other marine animals. The case arose when the Navy skipped an environmental impact statement for anti-submarine exercises planned from 2007 to 2009. The NRDC sued, and Los Angeles district court restricted the Navy’s use of active sonar. Later, a U.S. appeals court affirmed…
The Wesleyan University Press and the Center for the Arts have received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants in December 2008. Wesleyan University Press received a $35,000 grant to help publish the work of the following poets: Kazim Ali, Rae Armantrout, Adrian Blevins, Kamau Brathwaite, Brenda Hillman, Ed Roberson, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Roberto Tejada and Tan Lin. The Center for the Arts received $10,000 grant to help fund the "Breaking Ground Dance Series and DanceMasters Weekend.
Campus News Section 2008 Campus News Section 2007 Campus News Section 2006 Campus News Section 2005 People Section 2008 People Section 2007 People Section 2006 People Section 2005 Achievement Section 2008 Achievement Section 2007 Achievement Section 2006 Achievement Section 2005 Publications 2008 Publications 2007 Publications 2006 Publications 2005 Grants 2008 Grants 2007 Grants 2006 Grants 2005 Campus Snapshots 2008 Campus Snapshots 2007 Campus Snapshots 2006 Campus Snapshots 2005 Can't find what you're looking for? E-mail newsletter@wesleyan.edu.
09.04.08 Faculty, Student Study Emerging Language 09.04.08 Class of 2012 Welcomed to Wesleyan 09.04.08 Professor Scott Plous Honored for Teaching Efforts 09.04.08 Student Writes, Produces NPR Stories 09.04.08 Students Help Humanity with Open Source Software 09.04.08 Center for Humanities Fall Lecture Series Unveiled 09.04.08 U.S. Laureate Poet Kicks-Off Russell House Series 08.06.08 PIMMS Takes Math and Science Teachers Back to School 08.06.08 Researchers Get to the Core of Block Island 08.06.08 2008-09 Arts Season Kicks Off At CFA 08.06.08 Wesleyan Rideboard Links Campus Commuters 08.06.08 Students Learn about Financial Issues at Workshop 08.06.08 First Lady of Wesleyan Kay Butterfield Dies…
Every gift up to $10,000 donated to Wesleyan between now and Dec. 31 will be matched, dollar for dollar, by the Wesleyan Board of Trustees. Please join us today with your annual gift to Wesleyan.