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Rutland Guest Speaker on WNPR
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Peter Rutland, the Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought, professor of government, tutor in the College of Social Studies, spoke about "The New, Resurgent Russia" on the WNPR- Connecticut Public Radio program Where We Live on Aug. 18. The show offered reactions to the new Russia with Rutland and two other Connecticut scholars. The recording is online here. (Photo by Chion Wolf)
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Schiff's Sculpture Permanent Fixture at Courthouse
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A sculpture by Jeffrey Schiff, professor of art, is being permanently installed outside the Superior Court building in New Britain, Conn. The artwork, titled "Rail of Justice" is the final artwork commissioned for the courthouse, which opened in 1998 and had 1 percent of its budget set aside for public art.
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Charry Interviewed on Australian Broadcasting Corp.
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Eric Charry, associate professor of music, was extensively interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for a one-hour documentary on Grammy-award-winning African virtuoso musician Toumani Diabate. Diabate will be performing at Wesleyan in the spring. Charry, author of Mande Music: Traditional and Modern Music of the Maninka and Madinka of Western Africa, "Paint(s) a vivid picture of the artist and his rich and complex cultural world," for the documentary. The streamed audio recording is online here.
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Yohe Appointed to NYC Climate Change Task Force
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Gary Yohe, the Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, has been appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to New York City's Task Force on Climate Change. In addition, Yohe organized and conducted a session on New Perspectives on Uncertainty in Climate Change at Energy Modeling Forum's Climate Change Integrated Impacts Assessment meeting at Snowmass, Colo. on Aug. 6-7, as well as giving a remote talk on Iterative Climate Policy to an International Workshop on Adaptive Decision Making for Climate Change convened in Victoria, British Columbia. Yohe also was cited in a cited in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article on climate change.
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Bonin Presents Paper for International Economics Association
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John Bonin, the Chester D. Hubbard Professor of Economics and Social Science, presented his paper titled, "Employment in an ESOP Firm: Deferred Compensation with an Informational Twist," at the 14th conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation in Clinton, N.Y. on July 15.
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Lim Featured in Washington Post Online
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Elvin Lim, assistant professor of government, spoke on idiocy in America's elected and electorate in the Aug. 8 edition of the Washington Post. He is a two-time winner of the Sara Norton thesis prize at the University of Oxford, and also has been honored by the Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association. A transcript of Lim's talk is online here.
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Ph.D Candidate Speaks on Woody Guthrie in Colombia
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Jorge Arevalo Mateus, Ph.D candidate in ethnomusicology, spoke during a conference at the National Library in Bogota, Colombia on Aug. 12. He was interviewed by the library's Center for Musical Documentation about his efforts in creating "The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance 1949," which won the 2008 Grammy for Best Historical Album. Arevalo Mateus compared the lyrics of American folk-icon Guthrie to words of politician Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, chief of the Colombian Liberal Party in 1947-48.
Composting Efforts in New Haven Register
Wesleyan's composting efforts were mentioned in an Aug. 10 edition of the New Haven Register. Wesleyan was cited for using compost in its organic gardens. Wesleyan collects waste food from dining halls and hauls it to the student-run Long Lane Farm.
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ARCHIVES
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NEW PUBLICATIONS
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Barbara Juhasz, assistant professor of psychology, assistant professor of neuroscience and behavior, and Margaret Gullick '07, are the co-authors of "Age of acquisition's effect on memory for semantically associated word pairs," published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61, 1177-1185, 2008.
Elvin Lim, assistant professor of government, is the author of The Anti-Intellectual Presidency: The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush, published by Oxford University Press in May 2008.
Ishita Mukerji, professor of molecular biology and biochemistry, and David Beveridge, the University Professor of the Sciences and Mathematics, professor of chemistry, are the co-authors of "Spectroscopic and Molecular Dynamics Evidence for a Sequential Mechanism for the A to B transition in DNA," published in the Biophysical Journal V. 94, No. 12 in June 2008. Wesleyan alumni Kelly Knee '07, Sergei Ponomarev '04 and Colin Aitken '03 contributed to the article.
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NEW GRANTS
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Ann Burke, associate professor of biology, and Sonia Sultan, professor of biology, received individual grants from the Eppley foundation for research. The Eppley Foundation for Research supports advanced post-doctoral work in the physical and biological sciences, computer science, social sciences, and educational programs. Burke's grant, worth $32,442, will help to support her postdoctoral research fellow, Rebecca Shearman. Sultan's grant, worth $25,000, provides support while she writes a book.
David Beveridge, the University Professor of the Sciences and Mathematics, professor of chemistry, received a National Institutes of Health grant renewal to support the Molecular Biophysics Training Program. Wesleyan is the only liberal arts college to have such a program. The grant will support the program for an additional three years.
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