David PesciFormer major league baseball player and current Wesleyan Football receivers coach Rico Brogna hopes to be coaching at the professional level soon - in baseball. But he is drawing leadership lessons from Wesleyan's head football coach Frank Hauser in that quest.
Matthew Weiner '87, the creator of the popular TV series 'Mad Men' won two Emmy awards for the show at the most recent Emmy awards ceremony. Weiner won for both best drama, and for writing.
Jeanine Basinger, Chair and Cowrin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Curator, Cinema Archives, discusses the new film Julie and Julia, which is about the life of famed Chef Julia Child and a writer Julie Powell, who decides to try to cook every recipe in Child's best-selling cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and then blog about her experiences. Among the movie's producers is Lawrence Mark '71.
Marie Mencher '12 and Lindsay Keys were both featured in the lastest Education Life issue of The New York Times. Mencher contributed to the "Your Story" section, which features short first person essays on elements of college life. Mencher's essay is titled "Romance Crushed." Keys was featured in a photo essay titled "College Life."
Neely Bruce, professor of music, conducted the East Coast premiere of "Orbits" a piece written in 1979 by renowned composer Henry Brant. The orchestra conducted by Bruce included 89 trombones, a soprano and an organ.
In a New York Times piece examining some of General McChrystal's more austere habits, William Pinch, professor of history, discusses from a martial perspective McChrystal's habits of sleeping little, eating one meal a day, working out to exhaustion and yet maintaining the energy and focus to run the Afghanistan campaign. Pinch says such methods of "self-denial as...a cultivation of power" are consistent with the warrior ethos of the past.
John Rhea '87, an investment banker with an expertise in corporate finance, has been selected to head the New York City Housing Authority, which has been racked during recent years by claims of troubled financial practices. New York Mayor Bloomberg has selected Rhea in part because of his proven track record in finance and management
A piece in The New York Times discusses how applications for the Class of 2013 remained strong at the nation's most competitive colleges, despite the economy's recent economic recession. Mentioned in the article was Wesleyan which, unlike several liberal arts colleges, saw an increase in applications this year. In fact, Wesleyan's dramatic increase set a record: 10,065 applications, which is up 22% over last year's admissions cycle (which was also a record). The Times had previously written about Wesleyan's increase in applications during the November early decision application period, which was also up a record 40% over the previous year.…
The new Wesleyan University Press book, The Old Leather Man, was 20 years in the making, and as this story in The New York Times illustrates, its author's journey to the finished work was as intriguing as the book's subject.
For Julia Celeste, her support of Barack Obama for U.S. President was never in question. Her parents had other inclinations. But today, as The New York Times reports, they are all at the Inauguration together.
Michael Bennet '87 has been nominated by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to replace Ken Salazar in The United States Senate. Currently the Public School Superintendent in Denver, Bennet has also served as deputy U.S. Attorney General under former President Bill Clinton. Salazar has been nominated by President-elect Obama to be Secretary of the Interior and Bennet would become Colorado's junior senator once Salazar's nomination is confirmed. More about Michael Bennett can be found in his official biography. Additional news coverage on Bennet's nomination includes The Washington Post and The New York Times, among others.
A piece by Andrew C. Rivken in The New York Times discusses the risk-management approach toward climate change that has been done by Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics. Rivken wonders if this approach is something politicians will rally behind.