Wes in the News

In The Hartford Courant, Michael Sciola, director of Wesleyan’s Career Resources Center, discussed the recent phenomenon of alumni reaching out to their alma mater for help in networking for job searches

A grant-funded prison education program created by two Wesleyan graduate students, Molly Birnbaum ‘09 and Russell Perkins ‘09, while they were undergraduates, was profiled in The New York Times. Administered in Connecticut’s Cheshire Correctional Facility, the program provides Wesleyan-level courses for selected members of the prison’s population. The inmate-participants must meet rigorous entrance requirements.

Wesleyan has been actively involved in monitoring all information and protocols provided by The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and State of Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH), and the City of Middletown, and we have been implementing the prescribed measures aimed at precaution and treatment with regards to the Wesleyan Community. The latest information from Wesleyan’s Health Services Department is available here.

Updates and new announcements will be linked in this space as they become available.

Kirk Swinehart, assistant professor of history, reviews the new book by New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend titled, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor. Writing for The Chicago Tribune, Swinehart says Friend” has written the memoir of the season–and one for all time. ‘Cheerful Money’ doubles as a bittersweet family portrait and deceptively subtle ethnography.”

Rich Benjamin ’93 talks about his new book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, in Time. Benjamin discusses how “Whitopias” in America threaten to create a form of racial Balkanization within the country.

Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, is quoted in a New York Times piece on Obama Administration’s assessment of costs versus benefits of climate change action – or inaction. Yohe is also quoted in a USA Today story saying that most economists recognize that humans are to blame for global warming and that inherent risks increase if it is not addressed.

Julie Lasky ‘82 will be one of the exhibit curators at the opening of the new Design Museum Holon in Tel Aviv, Israel. According to The Jerusalem Post, the museum will be dedicated to design and will highlight Israeli artists.

Angus McCullough ‘10, is one of seven finalists in a design competition that re-imagines the Grand Concourse in Bronx, N.Y. The competition, sponsored by the Bronx Museum of Arts and the Design Trust for Public Space, asked participants to envision a revitalization to the Concourse, which is more than 100 years old. McCullough’s design was noted in The New York Times as a concept that “touches on a critical urban subject: the intensifying battle between transparency and privacy in the public realm.” The finalists will be on exhibit in the Bronx Museum of the Arts until Jan. 3. A more extensive feature in the Wesleyan Connection on McCullough’s design can be found here.

Jared Radin ‘12 is among those interviewed in a Newsweek story about kids who grew up in the wake of the attacks on September 11, 2001.

All American Wesleyan volleyball player Lisa Drennan ‘09 has signed to play professional volleyball in Denmark this year.