Olivia DrakeDuring the summer recess, amateur gardeners Sierra Bintliff ’12 and Nat Lichten ’09 seeded rows, weeded, irrigated, and tended fruits, vegetables and livestock at a small organic farm near St. Joseph's College in Standish, Maine. A bulk of the bounty was harvested for St. Joseph's dining services, managed by Bon Appétit Management Company, the same business that oversees Wesleyan dining. "I was thrilled at the opportunity to work for a company whose mission statement embodies the ideal combination of my two passions: sustainability and food," says Bintliff, who works as a Bon Appétit catering employee at Wesleyan. "While working on…
David LowLin-Manuel Miranda ’02 was featured prominently on the two-hour season premiere of the highly popular medical series House, which aired on September 21, 2009 on Fox. On this episode, Dr. Gregory House, played by Hugh Laurie, checks himself into the Mayfield Psychiatric Institute, to recover from a Vicodin addiction and other bad behavior. The well-written premiere introduces several intriguing new characters who viewers are likely to see again this television season. Miranda plays Laurie’s roommate, Alvie, and becomes his co-conspirator at the hospital. Near the end of the show, Alvie and House perform a rap number together. Miranda is scheduled…
David PesciSuzanne O'Connell, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, director, service learning center, has an opinion piece in The Hartford Courant that tells residents and law-makers about a proven, environmentally-friendly method for reducing carbon emissions and raising revenue that's also incredibly cheap to implement.
Matthew Weiner '87, the creator of the popular TV series 'Mad Men' won two Emmy awards for the show at the most recent Emmy awards ceremony. Weiner won for both best drama, and for writing.
Brian Stewart, associate professor of physics and director of Wesleyan's Molecular Collisions Laboratory, settles once and for all exactly what the Heisenberg Principle means on NPR's "The Colin McEnroe Show."
Marwa Aly, Wesleyan's Muslim Chaplain, discussed what it's like to be a Muslim Chaplain at American universities, and details some of the challenges she faced in general growing up as a Muslim student in the American school systems.
Lisa Dombroski, associate professor of film studies, comments in USA Today on the new film Jennifer's Body, a horror film with a snarky side that has the genre-inverting set-up of men as the victims and a woman who is the feared yet extremely attractive "monster."
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian, published by the Wesleyan University Press, is one of the winners of the 30th annual American Book Awards for 2009. The awards are presented by the Before Columbus Foundation and will be formally award on Sunday, October 11th, in New York City.
Gil Skillman, chair and professor of economics, was a featured guest on WNPR's "Where We Live" discussion on the general state of the economy one year after the demise of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the recession. Skillman and two other economists discuss what led to the collapse and point out some of the danger points that have been under-reported in the newsmedia and have yet to be addressed by the Federal Government.
The Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR had a discussion about Vodou and Haitian culture featuring Elizabeth McAlister, associate professor of religion, associate professor of African American studies, and Gina Ulysse, associate professor of anthropology, associate professor of African American studies, associate professor of feminist gender and sexuality studies.
The Department of Film Studies Elia Kazan Centennial, which opens Saturday, Sept. 12, was the focus of a feature in The Hartford Courant. A seminal director and founder of the Actors Studio, Kazan was both a brilliant and influential figure in film. He was also surrounded by controversy during his career, especially during the 1950s and the investigations by House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee. Kazan was also a "fixture" at Wesleyan, where he often came to write and speak to the classes of Jeanine Basinger, Chair and Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies. His personal papers reside in the Wesleyan…
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