Benjamin TraversWesleyan alumni and their families participated in the annual Parade of Classes During Reunion & Commencement Weekend May 26. A video and photos of the event are below: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMwcMYSdhsc[/youtube] (more…)
On April 12, Julia Louis-Dreyfus P'14, producer and star of "VEEP," sat down with President Michael Roth '78 and nearly 300 Wesleyan students, alumni, and parents at The Times Center in New York City for a premiere screening and conversation about her new HBO show. A video of the event is below: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_xN9gls-6s[/youtube]
Rachel Levenson '12, saw a need for an elevated, intellectual based conversation on how to evaluate programs, scale up effective programs, and allocate funds in a way that will have the biggest positive impact. Levenson designed The Forum For International Development to create a space at Wesleyan for that discussion so people could learn from each other as well as from speakers that Wesleyan Students brought in from all over the country. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riwhO7r0YlU[/youtube]
Olivia DrakeIn honor of International Women's Day, DoSomething.org named Tasmiha Khan '12 one of the "11 Young Women to Look Out For." Through the organization Brighter Dawns, Khan raises awareness about the water-related illnesses in Bangladesh and builds wells, latrines and shower rooms in an effort to combat sanitary ignorance and the inability to access safe sanitation. With a goal of 5 million active members by 2015, DoSomething.org is one of the largest organizations in the U.S. for teens and social change. The story is online here.
Government major Jourdan Khalid Hussein '11 has published an article based on his thesis at Wesleyan. The article "Not Secular Enough? Variation in Electoral Success of Post-Islamist Parties in Turkey and Indonesia" has been published in the journal STUDIA ISLAMIKA. Hussein currently works in the Indonesian "White House," as the assistant to the head, Indonesian President's Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight." STUDIA ISLAMIKA is a journal published by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society. It specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular, and South-east Asian Islamic Studies in general, and is intended to communicate original researches and…
Carter Bays '97 and Craig Thomas '97, co-creators of the television comedy, "How I Met Your Mother" (CBS), sat down with President Michael Roth '78 and nearly 200 Wesleyan alumni at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, Calif. on Jan. 12. What followed was all Wes! In addition to the video below, you can view photos taken during the event in this online Wesleyan Flickr gallery. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ex0APhXYKo[/youtube] View 11 other videos featuring Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are in the links below: Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl504Uh8HFc Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdT0tXGBm-c Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV4cP6l8JW0 Part 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7lRQdgQpaw Part 5…
Last summer, Wesleyan students journeyed to the Louisiana Gulf Coast as part of their College of the Environment class, ENVS 380, a scientific and artistic inquiry into the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The class was led by Barry Chernoff, the Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies and Chair of the Environmental Studies Program. [youtube width="640" height="418"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Uv1x5d7Qw[/youtube]
The City of Middletown hosted its first Middnight On Main New Year's Celebration on Dec. 31. The event, which was co-sponsored by Wesleyan, drew more than 10,000 midnight revelers of all ages from the Middletown community and surrounding region. Food, fun, live performance art, and fireworks created bright memories for all. The event also included a jazz piano performance by Wesleyan’s Jazz Ensemble coach Noah Baerman and a performance by SteveSongs' Steve Roslonek ’93. Middnight on Main is featured in the video below: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZZHdHA5gs&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
Paulette Campo '14, a Spanish major, works in the Usdan University Center and wants to become a pediatrician. Learn more about Paulette in the video below: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CCb27FY9zQ&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
Sarah Wolfe '12 is a theater major with a concentration in acting. She aspires to teach middle and high school students about the potential of live theater to make a difference in the lives of others. Learn more about Sarah in the video below: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwMCheyfwvA&feature=relmfu[/youtube]
Opraha Miles '14 is an intended neuroscience and behavior major from Jamaica who sings, dances in the ISIS women of color dance troupe, is a member of the West Indian Student Association (WISA), student manager at Usdan University Center and is a dedicated YouTube enthusiast. Learn more about Opraha in this video below: [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VklhWEl-lQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Below is a video featuring WILD Wes (Working for Intelligent Landscape Design at Wesleyan). WILD Wes is a Wesleyan student group working to transform fossil-fuel-intensive lawns into food-producing, ecologically-regenerative landscapes. WILD Wes is currently working on its first project: a 3/4 acre courtyard situated in a cluster of West College. The video was created by WILD Wes member Erin O'Donnell '12 and Ofer Levy '12, who were enrolled in the "Documentary Advocacy" class. Jacob Bricca, adjunct assistant professor of film studies, taught the FILM 150 course last fall. [youtube width="640" height="420"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3pDlO0WKw&feature=youtube_gdata[/youtube]