David PesciIn a June 2 OpEd for The Hartford Courant, Lauren Valentino '10 outlines how the new rules for student internships issued by the Federal Department of Labor have made internships cost-exclusive for students at liberal arts institutions. Valentino says that one unintended consequence of requiring unpaid internships to be “for-credit” will require liberal arts students to work for free and pay steep fees to attain academic credit. The result is a double financial hit that only the most affluent students will be able to afford. She writes: "A system that already disproportionately benefited those able to work without pay will…
The Kibera School for Girls and The Johanna Justin Jinich Memorial Clinic of Kibera were featured on Channel 3 News. The story discusses the facilities created by a small group of Wesleyan students their organization Shining Hope for Communities. The school was built last year and the clinic will go up this summer. Shining Hope for Communities has received more than $100,000 in grants and awards this year alone. Shining Hope for Communities and the Kibera School for Girls were founded and created by Kennedy Odede '12 and Jessica Posner '09; they were joined by Leah Lucid '10 and Arielle…
Olivia DrakeThe Middletown Materials: Archaeological Analysis class (ANTH 227) presented their final projects May 5-7 in the new Cross Street Archaeology Lab. The class was taught by Sarah Croucher, assistant professor of anthropology, assistant professor of archaeology, assistant professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies. "The class has been doing fantastic work on beginning to reexamine archaeological contexts explored in the late 1970s by Professor Stephen Dyson and students," she says. "They’ve had a tough job as the first class to begin working with this material, but have been making great progress with the artifacts and with working on associated archival…
Priscilla Meyer, professor of Russian language and literatures, was featured on a recent episode of the Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR. Meyer discusses the idea doppelgangers and doubles that permeates myth, literature and life. Meyer’s part of the show begins at the 29:20 mark.
Richard Grossman, professor of economics, was interviewed on “The Gold Standard and the Eurozone Crisis” by Voxeu.eu.
Wesleyan pre-frosh Manon LeFevre '14, a senior at Cromwell High School, organized a drive with the Parks and Recreation Department to collect old sneakers. The collection drive, which is sponsored by the high school‘s Environmental Club, took advantage of a "Reuse-A-Shoe" program developed by Nike. According to a May 22 Middletown Press article, the collected shoes are being taken to Middletown where they are being “pulped” — ground up to make a safe, environmentally friendly ground cover for playscape areas and other related sites. “I’m really grateful to everyone who helped, and I hope some steps forward to keep it…
Stephen Devoto, associate professor of biology, associate professor of neuroscience and behavior, is the co-author of “BMP Regulation of myogenesis in zebrafish,” published in Developmental Dynamics 239: 806-817, 2010.
Professor of Music Neely Bruce recreates a lost opera to critical and popular acclaim
New Federal internship rules make unpaid internships costly for liberal arts students
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Address by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper '74 '80 M.A,, on the 178th Commencement at Wesleyan University, May 23, 2010: Well, first I want to thank Wesleyan for inviting me. I want to thank President Michael Roth. Rarely do you see an individual, in his third year, who is the right person at the right time for the right institution. This is one of the great universities in America, and we have a great, great president. Board Chair Joshua Boger and University Marshall Suzanne O'Connell, and certainly all the family and friends who've supported these students through their college careers. This…
Address by Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth '77 on the 178th Commencement at Wesleyan University, May 23, 2010: Members of the board of trustees, members of the faculty and staff, distinguished guests, new recipients of graduate degrees and the mighty class of 2010, I am honored to present some brief remarks on the occasion of this commencement. It is thrilling for me to stand here before you in such distinguished company. I am joined today by the very honorable Mayor John Hickenlooper, who has an undergraduate and a graduate degree from Wes. This gives me an occasion to remind all…