David PesciAssistant Professor of Government Melayne Price comments in the New Britian Herald and Middletown Press on the significance of President-elect Obama and whether or not his election represents a mandate.
President Michael S. Roth talks about the connections established by candidate Barack Obama's appearance on campus in May and the student response to his election as President of the United States in November.
Claire Potter, chair of American studies and professor of history, and Elvin Lim, assistant professor of economics, both briefly discuss what they would say to the President-elect.
Scott Plous, professor of psychology, is quoted extensively in a piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer on bias and how it affects all of us.
Gina Ulysse, associate professor of African American Studies, associate professor of anthropology published an oped in The Hartford Courant on how Michelle Obama breaks stereotypes too.
Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth discusses participation as a form of eduction in his latest blog entry on The Huffington Post.
Assistant Professor of Government Elvin Lim talks about the intellectual complexity and near college-level language that FDR used in his popular fireside chats.
Political scientists Daniel Drezner of Tufts and Elvin Lim of Wesleyan explore the appeal of politicians who shun intellectualism. Related Links: http://www.elvinlim.com/
Anorexics can be male, old, Latino, black or pregnant. A new book undercuts old stereotypes.
The climate change debate, while very public and very political, is not the place for hyperbole and hysteria; it's time to move on...
patBook review written by Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies.
Olivia Drake Mark Flory, assistant professor of molecular biology, studies genomic integrity in Hall-Atwater Laboratory. Mark Flory joined the Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Department as an assistant professor of molecular biology and biochemistry in January 2005. Flory, a native of Roanoke, Virginia, completed his bachelors of science degree at the University of Richmond majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry in 1994. He earned his Ph.D. at the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2001. His dissertation was titled, "Isolation and Characterization of Calmodulin-Binding Centrosome Components Related to Sacharomyces cerevisiae Spc110p from the Fission Yeast…