Wesleyan Student Weight Watchers
Wesleyan Student Weight Watchers 10-Week Series Sponsored by the Office of Behavioral Health for Students. Minimum of 15 prepaid members needed; Cost: $127 (payment via cash, check or credit card; due at first meeting). Contact Becky Gagnon (rgagnon@wesleyan.edu) or call 685-3143 to sign up. Indicate when available for the group: Wed. or Thu. at 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, or 7:00 p.m.
Scientific Conservation Expeditions
Various presentations from Operation Wallacea will be sponsored by the Robert Schumann Lectures Series in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program.
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 24
Time: 2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Shanklin 107
Topic: Presentation & Information along with Project Selection Session
Date: Friday, Sept. 26
Time: 2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Location: Shanklin 107
Topic: Fundraising Advice
Operation Wallacea is a series of biological and social science expedition projects that operate in remote locations across the world. These expeditions are designed with specific wildlife conservation aims in mind—from identifying areas needing protection to implementing and assessing conservation management programs.
For more details, refer to their website at www.opwall.com or contact Valerie Marinelli, vmarinelli@wesleyan.edu
Room for Rent
Large room, semi furnished, utilities, $200/wk. Professionals and graduate students preferred. (860) 710-0300. Contact Wanda Torres ’97, wanda_torres@comcast.net or (860) 710-0300
Scholarships available
The Adelphic Educational Fund is accepting applications from Wesleyan students for a limited number of scholarships for the 2008-2009 academic year. Application forms are available on the World Wide Web at http://middletown.adps.org/aef/index.html. Application deadline is Oct. 15 at 4:00 p.m. Please submit completed applications to Erhard Konerding, Reference Department, Room 107F, Olin Library
WHERE ON EARTH ARE WE GOING? SYMPOSIUM
SAVE THE DATE! – Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008
The Robert Schumann Lecture Series in Environmental Studies in collaboration with Feet to the Fire: Exploring Global Climate Change from Science to Art present this year’s WHERE ON EARTH ARE WE GOING? SYMPOSIUM. The symposium will take place during Homecoming/Family Weekend and will be listed under the WESeminars.
Agenda:
8:30 a.m. —Welcome
9:00 a.m. – Climate Policy: A Progress Report, presented by Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics at Wesleyan University
10:15 a.m. – The Many Psychologies of Global Warming Given the Hard Realities We Face, presented by William Blakemore ’65, former Wesleyan trustee, and television correspondent for ABC News for 38 years
11:30 a.m. – Global Climate Change – The Role of the Carbon Cycle in Global Warming, presented by Dr. Richard A. Houghton, deputy director and senior scientist at the
Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, Mass.
For more information, please contact Valerie Marinelli at vmarinelli@wesleyan.edu or refer to our website: www.wesleyan.edu/escp.
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