David PesciAhmed Ismail ’12 is featured in a profile by The Wall Street Journal of St. Benedict’s Preparatory School, a unique all-boys school in Newark, N.J., that focuses on achievement, self-discipline, and an honor code that in part states: “whatever hurts my brother hurts me.” Located in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Newark, the school is known for its code of ethics, minority enrollment, outstanding academic programs, and excellence in sports. More than 95 percent of the school’s graduates go on to college.
In 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…
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.
Story profiles school and clinic created by Odede '12, Posner '09, Lucid '10, and Tolman 10'.
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Corrina Kerr"Practical Water" by poet Brenda Hillman was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.
Data show fast-growing, flowering plants 110 million years ago, spread quickly through river basins.
A haunting exhibition of Daniel Heyman's portraits of Iraqi victims of torture and abuse
Olivia DrakeStudent activists involved in Students for a Just and Stable Future were featured in an April 18 Middletown Press article titled "Wesleyan students raising awareness of clean energy, camping outside a week." The students want state leaders to work toward requiring that all electricity in the state comes from renewable sources such as solar or wind power by 2020. They are "rejecting the dirty electricity of their dorm rooms and are instead camping on Foss Hill." “What we want is that anytime you are in your house in Connecticut and you turn on a switch, all that electricity is coming…
Wesleyan is named as a leader in this switch to a growing trend that improves efficiency and lowers costs.