Olivia DrakeElizabeth McAlister, chair of the Religion Department, received a grant worth $114,000 from an initiative funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and developed in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program on Religion and the Public Sphere. McAlister plans to study the increase and globalization of what she terms “aggressive forms of prayer,” including evangelical spiritual warfare prayer and political forms of imprecatory prayer, in the context of increasing global militarization. Over the coming years, 28 grantees will participate in a series of interdisciplinary workshops and digital initiatives organized in conjunction with the project. McAlister also is associate professor…
The Green Street Arts Center received a grant worth $5,000 from the Liberty Bank Foundation on June 21. The award will support the center's After School Program in 2013.
Wesleyan's Green Street Arts Center received a $350,000 grant from the State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, to administer Connecticut’s Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Schools Program throughout the state for the 2012-13 academic year.
The Center for the Arts received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for the 2012-13 academic year. A $34,000 grant will support the CFA's Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. Founded in 2010, the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP) brings together artists, curators, scholars, presenters and cultural leaders to encourage innovative and relevant curatorial approaches to presenting time-based art. Another grant, worth $20,000, will support the presentation of dance artists.
The Center for the Arts received a grant worth $10,474 from Department of Economic and Community Development on April 4 to support the Dance Series and DanceMasters Weekend 2013. The DECD also receives support from the National Endowments for the Arts, a federal agency.
The Center for the Arts received a $10,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation on April 23. The award will support "Continuing Innovation" for the CFA's Feet to the Fire project. The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people's lives through grants supporting the performing arts, environmental conservation, medical research and the prevention of child abuse, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Dorks Duke's properties.
The J. Walter Bissell Foundation awarded the Green Street Arts Center with a $10,000 grant on April 10. The award will support Green Street's After School Program.
Phil Resor, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, received a $246,728 grant from the National Science Foundation for his study on "Three Dimensional Characterization of a Pseudotachylyte-bearing Fault." The grant was awarded on March 15 and expires on June 30, 2014. In this study, Resor and Wesleyan students will use high-resolution x-ray computed tomography imagery of natural and experimental fault surfaces to quantify surface roughness, frictional contact area, and Pseudotachylyte fault rock thickness. "Pseudotachylytes are generally considered the only unequivocal evidence of earthquake slip velocities that is preserved in fault zones," Resor explains. The proposed project will improve the…
Two undergraduates each received a $5,000 grant from the NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium on Jan. 1. Lavontria Aaron '14 to will study minerals on Mars with Martha Gilmore, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences; and Craig Malamut '12 will research local interstellar mediums with Seth Redfield, assistant professor of astronomy.
The Green Street After School Arts and Science Program received a grant worth $9,405 from the Department of Economic and Community Development/Connecticut Office of the Arts. The DECD receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. The grant was awarded on March 6.
Wesleyan’s Green Street Arts Center received a $75,000 grant from the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority (CHEFA) on March 1. The grant will support Green Street’s After School Program in 2012. CHEFA’s mission is to enhance the welfare and prosperity and improve the health and living conditions of the citizens of the State of Connecticut by providing access to tax-exempt financing and other financial assistance to institutions of higher education, healthcare institutions, childcare providers and nonprofit organizations. The grant was also featured in the March 1 Hartford Courant. Rob Rosenthal, the John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, provost and vice president…
Tanya Purdy, director of health education, and Elisa Del Valle, associate director of student activities and leadership development, received a $600 grant from the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling. The grant was awarded on Feb. 14. The mini-grant will support an educational luncheon for students in health promotion leadership roles; educational outreach on signs of problem gambling to recognize in a friend; and a campaign to examine and dispel myths about gambling.