Olivia DrakeArion Blas ’11 learned about debt, derivatives, equity, money policy, banking and business management during Wesleyan's first-ever Management and Leadership Conference Oct. 24-28. Blas and 29 other Wesleyan students learned about management from experts and executives from top companies, organizations and institutions, while participating in skill-building through lectures, hands-on workshops, case studies, and one-on-one mentoring with top Wesleyan alumni and parents from a variety of career fields. (more…)
Eli Allen ’09 will join youth leaders from across the country to represent the United States at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 14th Conference of Parties. The event will be held Dec. 23 in Poznan, Poland. "My generation will ultimately be responsible for the effects of the decisions made at the negotiations, so it is imperative that we be involved and have representation," says Allen, a College of Social Studies major. "I hope to express the urgency of this moment in our history, where we must realize our common responsibility to protect the most vulnerable members of…
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Dan Lachman '09 was featured in an a Oct. 12 Washington Post article titled Making it: A college student takes aim at his future by starting a profitable clothing business". Lachman, 21, started his company, Sharp Shirter, in 2005. He creates clothing designs and laptop skins. According to the article, "after college, Dan plans to move to Philadelphia and continue expanding Sharp Shirter while perhaps working for a start-up company that's further along so he can learn more about running a business. Ultimately, he wants to run Sharp Shirter online from South Africa, where his father was born and where…
Matt Lesser ’10, who is on a leave of absence from Wesleyan this semester, was elected as a state representative for Connecticut's 100th District during the 2008 election. He pulled off the victory against Republican Ray Kalinowski, a third-term incumbent for the 100th House District, which covers part of Middletown. Lesser, 25, was previously elected to Middletown's Planning and Zoning Commission. Lesser, a democrat, was featured on the Hartford, Conn.-based Eyewitness News Channel 3 Nov. 5 in a story titled "25-Year-Old Snatches State Seat From Rep." The story and video are online here.
It's a dog-gone good month for Laurenellen McCann ’09. After spending her entire summer working for an independent television production company, the government major's work was finally broadcast Oct. 11 on the network, Animal Planet. As one of three associate producers for the new series Dogs 101, McCann was at the front line of creative thought for each episode. She was responsible for researching the information to be disseminated in every episode, including details about the dog breeds featured and the best stories to make them stand out. (more…)
Matt Connolly '09 is the author of several film reviews , published in Reverse Shot, a quarterly, independently published film journal. Last winter, Connolly sent writing samples to the Reverse Shot editors and he was offered a contributing writer position. Since, he has written reviews on the films Boy A, The Chronicles of Narnia: Price Caspian, Felon, The Incredible Hulk, Frozen River, and others online here. Connolly also had the opportunity to attend press screenings for select films and have his reviews published the day a film is released. "As film criticism is ultimately a field I want to pursue,…
A service project undertaken by Wesleyan students for the Helen Carlson Wildlife Sanctuary in Portland, Conn. has drawn the attention of journalists. A piece title "Bird-Watching Deck Built with Respect for Environment appeard in the Oct. 19 Sunday Hartford Courant: http://www.courant.com/features/hc-fancybirders.art0oct18,0,3286282.story . Another piece titled "Eye Candy: Bird-Watching in High Design" ran in the Oct Chronicle of Higher Education: Chronicle of Higher Education blog . The design and building of the structure, which was part of the Feet to the Fire project was detailed in the Connection: https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2008/09/23/students-create-innovative-structure-for-audubon-society/ .
In Introduction to Archaeology, all students were trash-talking their first assignment. Titled "Understanding Garbage - Research and Analysis," the laboratory project helped students understand ways archeologists collect and analyze data by rummaging through rubbish and taking note of their findings. (more…)
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Two articles written by Jonna Humphries '10 appeared in New York Magazine recently. Humpries worked as an intern for the magazine as a member of their public relations department during the summer. She wrote a story about Christian Siriano, a fashion designer and Project Runway winner; and another featuring Nigel Barker, a fashion photographer and judge from America's Next Top Model who hosted a photography exhibition on Canadian seal hunting. (more…)