Amanda Shapiro '08 was named a New England Small College Athletic Conference All-Conference winner for Swimming and Diving. Posted 04/04/08 The New England Small College Athletic Conference announced the Winter and Fall All-Conference winners for each sport.All-Conference is an honor given to athletes who are voted by the NESCAC coaches in their team sport as the best players in the conference or, for individual sports, who finish high enough in the conference championship.The 2008 Wesleyan NESCAC Winter All-Conference winners are: Women's Basketball - Ali Fourney '09, first team and Lucy Sprung '08, second team; Men's Swimming and Diving - David…

Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Gina McCarthy will present “Meeting the Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century" at 8 p.m. April 22 as part of Wesleyan's Earth Day observance. Posted 04/04/08 Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Gina McCarthy will present the 2008 Earth Day Keynote Address at Wesleyan titled “Meeting the Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century.” This free event will be held at 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 22 in the Memorial Chapel. A reception will immediately follow in the Zelnick Pavilion. Appointed by Governor M. Jodi Rell on Dec. 10, 2004, Commissioner McCarthy came to the Connecticut…

Posted 04/04/08 Tough, entrepreneurial, family-oriented and successful. This is how Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Gina Ulysse describes the Jamaican women who work as informal commercial importers (ICIs), who she has spent 15 years studying. Her unique, groundbreaking research has lead her to publish the book Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist, and Self-Making in Jamaica, which is the first broad analytic work to examine ICIs.The study was inspired by a talk given by well-known Jamaican businesswoman Mabel Tenn at the University of…

Posted 04/04/08 The Wesleyan University Board of Trustees awarded tenure to five members of the faculty in March. These appointments do not conclude tenure announcements for the 2007-2008 academic year, and more will be forthcoming. The faculty members who were awarded tenure in March by the Board are: Christiaan Hogendorn, associate professor of economics. Hogendorn's scholarship concentrates on applied microeconomic theory in the field of industrial organization. His course offerings include Microeconomics, Introduction to Economic Theory, Economics of Technology, Regulation and Anti-trust and Industrial Technology. Allan Isaac, associate professor of English. Isaac's area of specialization is Asian American literature and…

Joshua Boger ‘73, P’06 P’09 speaks about “Building a 21st Century Pharmaceutical Company” during the student-organized Graduate Student Career Retreat March 29. Posted 04/04/08 Students pursuing degrees in biology, molecular biology and biochemistry fields had the opportunity to discuss their future careers with Wesleyan alumni during the Graduate Student Career Retreat March 29. The first-ever event, held at the Wadsworth Mansion in Middletown, allowed alumni to deliver a series of brief talks on their own careers and participate in panel discussions. In addition, graduate students held a poster session to share their own research with the invited guests. “I consider…

Posted 04/04/08 Wesleyan raised $136,098.32 this year to support the Middlesex United Way, topping last year’s campaign total. The campaign supports critical human care services and county-wide projects that address the top concerns of local residents: housing, mental health and substance abuse. Funds were raised through the annual Wesleyan Employee Campaign. This year, 498 employees and 24 vendors participated. Of these, 99 were new givers and 125 individuals increased their gift from the previous year. “Although we are short of our stated goal this year, our campaign garnered terrific results,” says Karen Collins, 2007-08 campaign chair and chair of the…

Posted 03/17/08 For the second year in a row, Wesleyan is participating in the nation-wide competition, RecycleMania, for college and university recycling programs. The 10-week program provides campus communities with a fun, proactive activity in waste reduction. More than 400 institutions are participating in different contests to see which institution can collect the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate. "This is a fun way for the Wesleyan community to get excited about recycling, and possibly end up with national recognition, awards…

Posted 03/17/08 “Food: Power and Identity” is the topic of the Wesleyan’s 2008 Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns. The event will take place April 4-6 on campus. Endowed by James Shasha ’50, the annual Shasha Seminar supports lifelong learning and encourages participants to expand their knowledge and perspectives on significant issues. This year, seminar speakers will discuss how food shapes our identity, public and private discourse, politics and daily lives. “Food: Power and Identity” will tackle issues on food production, such as industrial agriculture, organic agriculture, genetic manipulation, local vs. global, sustainability; food and politics, for example unequal distribution of…

Intisar Abioto ’08, left, and her sisters, Amenta and Kalimah, traveled to Djibouti as part of their "People Could Fly Project." In Djibouti, they met men and camels returning from Lac Assal, the lowest point in Africa, with salt from the lakes shores. Posted 03/17/08 Intisar Abioto ’08 had a recurring daydream where she traveled to all parts of the world, adventure-seeking, meeting new people and hearing their stories – especially people her own age. “Our positive stories aren’t always represented in books or movies or on TV, and what the repercussions of this are, is that young people don’t…