Olivia DrakeThe following people joined Wesleyan University in September and October 2008. Rebecca McCallum was hired by Olin Library as a cataloging librarian. Kathy Tedone was hired by the Center for the Humanities as an administrative assistant. Lisa LaPlant was hired by the President's Office as an assistant to the secretary of the university. Brian Nangle was hired by Residential Life as an area coordinator. Denise Skura was hired by Human Resources as a payroll and human resources assistant. Karen Nichols was hired by the Usdan University Center as an administrative assistant. Lashawn Springer was hired by the Office of Admission…
Wesleyan President Michael Roth is the author of a review essay on Richard Rorty, Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, published in Volume 4 of History and Theory in October 2008.
Cross-Country runner Liz Wheatley '09 was honored as the Performer of the Week by the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) after winning the 5K Wesleyan Invitational, with a time of 19 minutes, 28 seconds. She is featured in an Oct. 12 Boston Globe article, which mentions her success despite struggles with tendinitis of the knee and Lyme disease last season. "She was a kid who came here never having run cross-country in high school," said head coach John Crooke, in the article. "Then she had some physical ailments her junior year. But she had a breakout spring, running the 1,500…
Claudia Tatinge Nascimento, associate professor of theater, is the author of Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work: Foreign Bodies of Knowledge, published Sept. 17, 2008 by Routledge. (more…)
Hilary Barth, assistant professor of psychology, is the co-author of "Nonsymbolic, approximate arithmetic in children: Evidence for abstract addition prior to instruction," published in the journal Developmental Psychology, September 2008.
Elizabeth Jackson, visiting assistant professor of Portuguese in the Language Resource Center, translated a contemporary Brazilian novel, The Five Seasons of Love. The book was published by Host Publications in 2008. (more…)
The Wesleyan-Middletown Area School Collaboration received a grant from Nellie May in September 2008. The grant will support the program during the 2008-09 academic year. The collaborative programs are run through Wesleyan's Office of Community Relations.
The Green Street Arts Center received a grant worth $12,500 from the Bissell Foundation in support of the GSAC AfterSchool Program; a $500 award for the Summer Video Project from the Middletown Commission on the Arts & Cultural Activities; and a $200 award from the New England Foundation for the Arts to support the fall 2008 GSAC Latino Series.
David PesciPulitzer Prize winning author, historian and philosopher Saul Friedlander will deliver a presentation titled "Toward an Integrated History of the Holocaust" as the featured speaker at this year’s Hallie Lecture, which will be held at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23 in Memorial Chapel. (more…)
In Introduction to Archaeology, all students were trash-talking their first assignment. Titled "Understanding Garbage - Research and Analysis," the laboratory project helped students understand ways archeologists collect and analyze data by rummaging through rubbish and taking note of their findings. (more…)
Corrina KerrMichaelle Biddle, head of preservation services, has returned from a five-week sabbatical to Nigeria, where she conducted a survey of Islamic manuscripts and related materials in northern Nigeria under the auspices of the Arewa House, Centre for Historical Documentation and Research, Ahmadu Bello University. Biddle was there working on preserving documents and taught conservation workshops to preserve documents in Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto and Maiduguri and teach archivists and conservationists how to best preserve paper documents in accordance with international conservation standards. The program Biddle taught was entitled “Conservation in a Box” and was funded by the U.S. Ambassador's Cultural Preservation Program.…
It’s all about politics, about western influences, Asian influences, African influences, gender relations, protest, genocide, violence, spirituality, centuries of culture, the latest fad, and performers in the New York Subway system and more than a hundred other topics set in disparate times, places and civilizations. Which is all another way of saying it’s all about music. Specifically, the Annual Meeting for the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), which will be held Oct. 25-28 at Wesleyan. (more…)