Olivia DrakeVera Schwarcz, the Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies, director of the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, chair and professor of East Asian Studies, professor of history, was a guest author at the Farmington River Literary Arts Center's "Readings by the River" series April 18. Schwarcz read from her book of poetry titled Chisel of Remembrance. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Schwarcz has made the quest for remembrance a central theme in all her works. Her writing has been nominated for the National Jewish Book Award and has been accorded several major grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.
David LowSuzanne O'Connell, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, director of the Service Learning Center, will be the K. Douglas Nelson Lecture Series keynote speaker at Syracuse University April 22. Her title is “Weddell Sea Sediment, ODP Site 694: One Clue to Antarctica’s Past.” The event is sponsored by Syracuse's Department of Earth Sciences.
Student activists involved in Students for a Just and Stable Future were featured in an April 18 Middletown Press article titled "Wesleyan students raising awareness of clean energy, camping outside a week." The students want state leaders to work toward requiring that all electricity in the state comes from renewable sources such as solar or wind power by 2020. They are "rejecting the dirty electricity of their dorm rooms and are instead camping on Foss Hill." “What we want is that anytime you are in your house in Connecticut and you turn on a switch, all that electricity is coming…
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Between March 7-19, eight Wesleyan students assisted the Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team-Haiti (AMURT) by setting up camps for children and planting community food gardens in Port-Au-Prince. The students, Jacob Eichengreen '13, Elijah Meadow '13, Haley Baron '12, John Snyder '12, Ali Patrick '13, Barbaralynn Moseman '13, Michael Steves '13 and Stefan Skripak '13, created a video of their experience (watch video below). “Probably, the most difficult time for me was last night when there was a flash flood, and I just realized that everyone that we’ve met, or heard of...hundreds and thousands of people, right now are in six inches…
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On April 20, 2010, Wesleyan President Michael Roth '78 wrote a blog, declaring that the university will not be able to maintain McConaughy Hall. The building, constructed 1962 as "The Freshman Dining Hall" closed in 2007 following the opening of Usdan University Center. When I began my tenure as President of Wesleyan in the summer of 2007, I strolled over to my old Foss Hill room just across from the entrance to McConaughy Dining Hall. Standing in the circular driveway between my frosh dorm and the dining hall, I could almost hear the music that my roommate Richie and I blasted…
David PesciThe Olin Professor of English, Emeritus, a 2010 member of the prestigious academic honorary society