Olivia DrakeMay 26, 20131min
The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) National Dance Project awarded Wesleyan's Center for the Arts with a $10,000 grant on May 7. The grant will support two presentations of "Times Bones" by the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in January 2014. Lead funding for this project comes from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Olivia DrakeMay 13, 20131min
History major Sophia Hussain '13 received a $500 grant from the Grants Award Committee of the Roosevelt Institute. According to David Woolner, Senior Fellow and Hyde Park Resident Historian of the Roosevelt Institute, "the Roosevelt Institute does not normally grant awards to undergraduate students, but given the quality of Sophia's proposal, which was excellent, we decided to make an exception in [her] case." The award is meant to assist Hussain's research at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.  

Lauren RubensteinMay 13, 20131min
The Liberty Bank Foundation has awarded a grant of $30,000 over three years to support the Kindergarten Kickstart program, a summer pre-K program that is a collaborative partnership between Assistant Professor of Psychology Anna Shusterman's lab, MacDonough Elementary School, North End Action Team (NEAT), and the Connecticut State Department of Education's Family Resource Center. The program was piloted for the first time last summer at MacDonough. The grant will provide about 50 percent of the program's operating cost for each of the next three years, and allow the program to expand to two locations. Each site will be staffed by three…

Olivia DrakeApril 22, 20131min
Ishita Mukerji, dean of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics division, and professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, has received a $6,750 National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement to enhance her current grant supporting research, “Structure and Function of Holliday Junctions Complexed With Proteins Probed by Fluorescence and UV Raman Spectroscopic Methods.”

Olivia DrakeFebruary 20, 20131min
Wesleyan’s Green Street Arts Center received a $5,000 grant from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts, on Jan. 17. The award will support the center’s Arts and Science After School Program through Dec. 31, 2013. The Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts, also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.