Olivia DrakeJohn Bonin, the Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Science, tutor in the College of Social Studies, is the co-author of "Banking in Transition Countries, Chapter 33 in the Oxford Handbook of Banking. The book is published by Oxford University Press, Oxford U.K., 2010, pages 844–867.
Hilary Barth, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, and Annie Paladino ’09, are the authors of a new article on children’s numerical thinking, based on data collected by Paladino with support from her Hughes fellowship for research in the life sciences. The article is titled "The development of numerical estimation: Evidence against a representational shift." It will appear in the journal Developmental Science in 2010.
Suzy Taraba, university archivist and head of Special Collections, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a preservation assessment of the Henry Bacon Papers. The grant for $5,810, expires June 30, 2011.
Wesleyan's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program received a grant for $189,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will be applied July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2014.
David PesciWesleyan's grant-funded pilot program brings liberal arts instruction to selected inmates
A physics major, Murphy '10 inspired his mother to investigate why teens become "different" almost overnight
Asst. Sociology Prof. Long discusses the effects of the Chilean earthquake
Wesleyan's Women's Ice Hockey Coach, Olympic Assist. Coach Jodi McKenna, wins silver at Vancouve
Trammell '10 says Vladimir Putin has willfully opened the gates for pollution of Russia's Lake Baikal
Prof. Pomper talks about the subject of his new book, Lenin's highly influential older brother Alexander
Roth praises Ken Gormley's book on Clinton vs. Starr for "getting the story straight and telling it well."
Kirk Swinehart calls Louis Menand's unvarnished look at American universities "deeply relevant."