A few Sundays ago, Alice Goldsmith ’10 received a frantic phone call from her mother in Calabasas, a city just north of Malibu, Calif. The Goldsmith family, along with their entire neighborhood, was forced to evacuate, as the California blaze was merely hundreds of yards from their home.
Once reserved for the tech elite, blogs are now triggering the shift towards user-generated content on the Internet, otherwise known as the "Web 2.0" movement. The emergence of the blogosphere has even become prevalent in the Wesleyan classroom.
Wesleyan is a campus of old brownstones and other stately architecture. Historic landmarks and academic buildings are scattered throughout campus. The social center for undergraduates, however, is not found along frat row or in a local coffee shop but is rather located on Foss Hill.
In the next few weeks, faculty search committees will be making final decisions on teaching staff applicants for the 2007-2008 school year. In order to fill 17 newly opened teaching positions, departments—especially the English and Government departments—are expected to hire new faculty members.
Three University faculty members were recently awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for their academic merit and leadership potential. Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and Philosophy Stephen Angle, Professor of Theater Ronald Jenkins, and Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Jeff Rider will join about 800 other U.S. professionals traveling and studying abroad with Fulbright grants.
This fall, the Asian Languages and Literature Department and East Asian Studies Program welcomed Shengqing Wu as an assistant professor. Wu, a native of Hangzhou, China, is an expert on modern Chinese literature and East Asian culture. This semester, she is teaching two courses, one in fourth-year Chinese and the other focusing on gender politics in modern Chinese literature.
Ethan Nichturn teacher of Buddhist studies and meditation practitioner, led students in the application of Buddhist beliefs to creating change in modern-world society in his Friday night lecture entitled "21st Century Buddhism: Taking Action in a Crazy World."
While many Connecticut voters spent the summer glued to their televisions following the highly anticipated Democratic Primary Election, Keith Schumann ’09 was making headlines working for Ned Lamont, candidate for United States Senate.
Andrew Light, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Washington, addressed students and community members on the practice of ecological restoration in the 21st century in a Monday night lecture at Russell House titled, "When We Restore Nature, What Do We Owe the Past?" Light focused on the moral obligation that humans have to preserve remnants of industrial and agricultural sites when restoring the surrounding environment.