Olivia DrakeConnie Leidy, assistant professor of mathematics, received a $18,900 grant from the National Science Foundation for a workshop on “Knot Concordance and Homology Cobordism.” The grant, awarded July 6, supported a conference held July 19-23 at Wesleyan.
Olivia DrakeBrian Northrop, assistant professor of chemistry, received a $100,000 American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant for his project titled “Dynamic Assembly of Porous Boronate Ester Macromolecules.” The grant will be applied July 1 through Aug. 31, 2012.
Carl West ’11, Tsampikos Kottos, assistant professor of physics, and Tomas Prosen of the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, are the co-authors of an article titled “PT-Symmetric Wave Chaos,” published in Physical Review Letters 104 in 2010. "This work studied the universal properties of this crossover and demonstrated that a simple scaling function could embody the effects of such dramatically different changes as increasing the system size, varying the initial energy, or having varying degrees of imperfections / disorder in the system," West explains. "While these results were obtained from a toy model, they carry direct applications to optics where…
Richard Grossman, professor of economics, is the author of the book, Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800, published by Princeton University Press in June 2010. The 400-page book provides a comparative history of banking focusing on four types of events that have been central to the lifecycle of banking systems: crises, bailouts, mergers and regulatory reform.
Irina Russu, professor of chemistry, and chemistry graduate student Xiaoli Weng are the co-authors of an article titled, “Structural Enegetics of the Adenine Tract from an Intrinsic Transcription Terminator,” published in the Journal of Molecular Biology 397, pages 677-688, in 2010.
Richard Grossman, professor of economics, discusses financial reform in an op-ed.
David PesciUnintended consequences of new Department of Labor requirements hurt liberal arts students
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Nine from the Wesleyan Community receive nominations for the coveted TV awards
Bill HolderPosner’s award will support Shining Hope for Communities’ Kibera School for Girls and Health Clinic
Wesleyan's architecture design class and its Research-Design-Build Studio have been recognized by the American Institute of Architects' (AIA) 2010 Small Projects Practitioners Awards. They were recognized for the observation platform "Split Frame" they created for the Helen Carlson Wildlife Sanctuary in Portland, Conn., in 2008. The studio and class are overseen by Elijah Huge, assistant professor of art, assistant professor of environmental studies. Last year the class and studio created the Sukkah on campus as one of their projects.
“There’s nothing we can do about it… it changes the climate system dramatically”