Lauren RubensteinThe Wesleyan Media Project's new study finds more than 915K presidential ads aired in the general election
Dupuy cautions that outside investors stand to gain more than Haitians from the $300M project
In an op-ed, Peter Rutland questions whether the EU deserved the Nobel Peace Prize
Greenwood comments on new evidence the lunar surface is rich with water coming from the sun
Film Studies Chair Jeanine Basinger was honored as one of the most powerful women in show business
The President holds an advantage in 14 of 15 top markets, says a new Wesleyan Media Project study
To prevent cheating, Libor should be replaced with a market-based rate, says Grossman
The Magazine of the Harvard Graduate School of Education featured a story this month on Professor of Theater Ron Jenkins' Dante Project, "a program he created that attempts to use theater as a catalyst for positive change in prisons throughout the world." According to the article, the program, which has been facilitated in places as far flung as Italy and Indonesia, encourages incarcerated men and women to "write about points of connection between their own life stories and the experiences of the characters" in classics like Dante's Inferno. These writings are then used to create a script that is performed…
On Aug. 31, "Where We Live," a program on WNPR public radio, featured two segments about music at Wesleyan. Rob Rosenthal, provost, vice-president of academic affairs and the John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, and his son Sam Rosenthal, a writer and musician in New York City, discussed a new collection of Pete Seeger's personal writings that they co-edited. The book is Pete Seeger: In His Own Words (Paradigm Publishers). They described the experience of combing through decades of Seeger's writings in the folk singer's Beacon, NY home while he hovered nearby. "He would drop in from time to time…
David PesciIn a Sept. 5 op-ed for The New York Times, Wesleyan President Michael Roth discusses the recent calls to further specialize education and narrow what we teach students from K-12 and on to college at the exclusion of the liberal arts, especially the humanities. Roth says this drive to turn students into “human capital” is not a new. In fact, the esteemed 19th century educational philosopher John Dewey argued against the very same calls, saying, in part, “that learning in the process of living is the deepest form of freedom.”
In an Aug. 24 op-ed for The Hartford Courant, Lauren Caldwell, assistant professor of classical studies, says that U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin’s reference to women being able to consciously prevent conception during rape is relying on “facts” presented by the ancient Roman physician Soranus of Ephesus in the Second Century, A.D. Caldwell also says, “The next time I teach my course, I will be able to bring in the example of Rep. Akin to illustrate the ways in which 'medical understanding' continues to be used with the aim of social control,” which was also an objective of Roman rulers in…
On Sept. 18, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Jennifer Tucker, associate professor of history, associate professor of science in society, associate professor and chair of feminist, gender and sexuality studies. In light of the current mission of the Mars Curiosity Rover, Tucker writes about the centuries-long search for extraterrestrial life. The op-ed can be read online here. On Aug. 23, The New York Times published an op-ed by Tucker. Tucker says that the science behind Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin’s comments on rape is completely sound, at least from the perspective of the 12th Century. She says that what may be…