Olivia Drake
David LowSarah Dashew ’94 has released her second album, Where I Belong (Whistlefoot Records), a 10-track set which deals with the themes of love, place, and belonging. The title track is a light, sweet love song with a spirited horn solo that sets an upbeat tone for the rest of the album. In addition to writing and performing song, Dashew also co-produced the project with Los Angeles-based producer Eric Peterson. Drawing upon influences as diverse as James Taylor and Prince, her unique style mixes elements of folk, pop, country and soul. She grew up sailing the high seas with her family…
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Barbara Juhasz, assistant professor of psychology, is the co-author of “Parafoveal processing in reading is reduced across a morphological boundary,” published in Cognition, 116, pages 136-142, in 2010.
Frank Kuan, executive director of the Center for Community Partnerships, received the inaugural Al Award from the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce Central Business Bureau (CBB) on June 3. The award is named after Middletown Deputy Fire Marshal Al Santostefano, who has been a member of the CBB for 25 years, and is given to a member of the CBB who provides service above and beyond what is required or expected. The CBB presents this award to one of its members each year. Kuan is a graduate of California State University at Fresno and began his career in Middlesex County as a counselor…
The Green Street Arts Center received a grant from the Wallis Foundation to support its Afterschool Musical Mentors program. The $15,000 award was funded May 14
Wesleyan’s Prison Education Program at Cheshire Correctional Institution received a $5,000 gift from the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The award date was May 2.
The Women’s’ Ice Hockey Program and Wesleyan Fund Cardinal Scholarship each received a $10,000 grant from the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, Texas. The award will be applied in 2011.
Barry Chernoff, the Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies, professor of earth and environmental sciences, professor of biology and director of the Environmental Studies Certificate Program, is the co-author of "A new species of suckermouth armored catfish, Pseudancistrus kwinti (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from the Copename River drainage, Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname," published in Zootaxa 2332:40-48, 2010.
David Bodznick, dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, professor of biology and professor of neuroscience and behavior, is the co-author of “Functional origins of the vertebrate cerebellum from a sensory processing antecedent,” published in Current Zoology 56 (3): 277-284, 2010 and “The Importance of N-methyl d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in subtraction of electrosensory reafference in the dorsal nucleus of skates,” published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, 2010.
Dana Royer, assistant professor of environmental studies, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, is the co-author of "Quantification of large uncertainties in fossil leaf paleoaltimetry," published in Tectonics, doi:10.1029/2009TC002549, 2010; and "Fossil soils constrain ancient climate sensitivity," published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107: 517-518, 2010.
Yonatan Malin, assistant professor of music, is the author of the book Songs in Motion: Rhythm and Meter in the German Lied, published by Oxford University Press in May 2010. This book explores rhythm and meter in the 19th-century German Lied, including songs for voice and piano by Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolf. The Lied, as a genre, is characterized especially by the fusion of poetry and music. Poetic meter itself has expressive qualities, and rhythmic variations contribute further to the modes of signification. .