Academic Program

New Minor in Planetary Science

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With great pleasure we announce the new Planetary Science Minor.  This joins the MA Concentration in Planetary Science and the Planetary Science Course Cluster as curricula providing students the background and tools to understand our place in the cosmos.  Our view is changing rapidly, to wit, at 3:35 tomorrow morning (Wed.), we (humanity) will attempt to land on the surface of a comet (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta).

 

The Planetary Science Minor: 

http://www.wesleyan.edu/planetary/Courses/index.html

 

List of all Minors at Wesleyan: http://www.wesleyan.edu/registrar/majors_minor_certificates/index.html

 

Planetary Sciences at Wesleyan: 

http://www.wesleyan.edu/planetary/ 

 

On behalf of the Planetary Science Group,

 

Dr. Martha S. Gilmore

George I. Seney Professor and Chair

Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences

 

 

Winter Session Courses!

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Interested in Winter Session? Don’t miss your opportunity to participate! thumbnailCAIAN5C9Registration for classes, housing, and dining closes the day you come back from Thanksgiving break (December 1 – at noon). You can find the form for Winter Session, as well as links to sign up for dining and housing, in your Eportfolio (EP>Student>Winter Session>Registration Form) or http://www.wesleyan.edu/wintersession/enroll.html. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, your advisor, or the Winter Session office at winter@wesleyan.edu.

McNair & Mellon Mays Program Info Session — 11/4, 6:30 p.m.

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McNair & Mellon Mays Program Information Session, Tues, 11/4 @ 6:30

The Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program is designed to assist students from underrepresented groups, including students who are first-generation to attend college and low-income, to prepare for and successfully enroll in post-graduate programs, especially Ph.Ds.  Participants must be US citizens or permanent residents. Wesleyan’s program focuses on students majoring in the sciences.  McNair Fellows are eligible for summer research stipends to conduct research with a faculty member at Wesleyan and to receive a stipend during the academic year to continue their research.

The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship aims to increase the number of faculty of color at U.S. colleges and universities and to overcome the effects of persistent underrepresentation of certain groups in the academy. Students from those groups, and others who have demonstrated a commitment to overcoming disparities in higher education that result from that underrepresentation, are eligible for the Fellowship. Mellon Fellows are selected in the spring of their sophomore year, participate in an intensive summer session, and work during their junior and senior years on individual research projects, guided by faculty mentors. Fellows receive academic-year fellowships, support for attendance at conferences and for research, and funding during their two summers in the program. Through the Social Science Research Council and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Mellon Foundation provides additional support for Fellows while they are in graduate school and during the earlier stages of their academic careers. Upon receipt of the Ph.D. in fields stipulated by the Mellon Foundation, Fellows have a portion of their undergraduate loans repaid. Mellon Fellows must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Learn more about the two programs and meet with current McNair and Mellon students at an informational session on Tuesday, November 4, from 6:30-7:30 in Usdan 108.

New Linked-Major: College of Integrative Sciences & Seminar Course

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Dear Students,

Welcome back to campus!  While you have been away, there have been new developments in the Sciences, which may be important to you.  Since the College was just approved, courses related to the CIS were not listed during pre-registration.

A core mission of this new college is to develop student skills in interdisciplinary thinking and science research that cuts across disciplines. Interdisciplinary approaches are becoming vital for success and growth in our current technology driven society.

To introduce students to these challenges, the CIS is offering a new seminar course, “Research Frontiers in research1 the Sciences” (CIS 221/222).  The course is open to all students who have completed at least an introductory science course, and forms the gateway for students who are interested in the “linked-major” offered by the CIS.  It is available in add-drop.  The 0.50 credit course meets Fridays, 2:40-3:30 p.m.

Visit our webpages (http://www.wesleyan.edu/cis), check out wesmaps, or contact me for further information.

Have a productive semester!   Prof. Francis W. Starr, Professor, Physics Department, and Director, College of Integrative Sciences

COL Applications Deadline Extended to March 28, 5 p.m.

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Due to technical problems some students faced when submitting applications, the deadline for COL applications will be extended to this Friday, March 28 at 5:00 p.m.  Informal Interviews will be conducted by COL student and faculty for candidates applying by Friday will be on Monday, March 31. Interested students should visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/col/apply.html to find out how to apply. If you have any questions about the application process or about the major, email Eugenia Szady at eszady@wesleyan.edu.

Applications for College of Letters are due Monday, March 24, 2014 at 3 pm, so if you are thinking of applying please go to COL web site www.wesleyan.edu/col  for more info and how to apply.

New CSPL Cluster Initiative for Fall 2014 on Centralization/Decentralization — Apps due April 7

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New Academic Opportunity in 2014-15 for rising seniors, juniors, and sophomores!

The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life invites applications from students in all majors for a new program to begin in Fall 2014 that will engage twenty students in a Cluster of three one-credit courses, a year-long collaborative research project, and a range of associated lectures and academic and social activities throughout the academic year.

 Professors Richard Adelstein and John Finn, both acclaimed scholars and past winners of the Binswanger Teaching Prize, will be running this first Cluster.

 This first Cluster is organized around the theme of centralization anddecentralization in both economic and political life. This is an issue of special salience in the twenty-first century, as citizens in the U.S., the former Soviet Union, the European Union and emerging nations elsewhere debate the proper relation between local and central governments in a range of political and economic contexts.

For more details on the cluster and how to apply, see:  http://www.wesleyan.edu/allbritton/Collaborative_cluster_initiative.html

 

Symposium on Human Rights & the Environment: Standing on Sacred Ground — 3/1 and 3/2

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“Standing on Sacred Ground” 

Powell Family Cinema

Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2

Join us for a chance to see and discuss four remarkable new documentaries that tell the story of a growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment.

Each film will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Christopher (Toby) McLeod, Project Director of Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project and Wesleyan parent, and distinguished speakers Donna Augustine, Thunderbird Turtle Woman, Traditional Knowledge Keeper from the Mi’kmaq tribe, Angelo Baca, Hopi/Dine Filmmaker and Visiting Instructor in American Studies at Brown University and Nikolai Tsyrempilov, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, currently a member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,  and faculty members Gillian Goslinga, Sarah Croucher, Ruth Johnson, Honor Keeler and Justine Quijada.

 

Saturday March 1                                                   

1:00 pm – Pilgrims and Tourists (California Altai, Russia)                                                             

 3 pm – Coffee Break                                                                                                

 3:45 pm – Profit and Loss (Alberta, Canada and Papua New Guinea)      

 Sunday March 2

11:00 am – Fire and Ice (Ethiopia and Peru)

1:00 pm – Lunch

2:00 pm Islands of Sanctuary (Hawai’i and Australia)

The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments provided.  Attend one film or stay for them all.

Sponsored by the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, Center for Film Studies, College of the Environment, Anthropology Department and Department of Religion.

For more information visit: http://www.wesleyan.edu/filmstudies/SpecialEvents/sacredland.html

 

Center for Humanites Lecture: Noah Isenberg on filmmaker Edward G. Ulmer — 3/3, 6 p.m.

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CFH--filmmakerProfessor Noah Isenberg

New School for the Liberal Arts

The near-forgotten emigre filmmaker Edgar G. Ulmer enjoyed a thirty-five year career as a director. Born in Olmutz (in what is today the Czech Republic) in 1904, and raised in Vienna, he first traveled to America in 1924 with Max Reinhardt’s theater company to help stage The Miracle in New York. His sprawling, eclectic body of work includes: such daring and original horror films as The Black Cat (1934) and Bluebeard (1944); a startling variety of ethnic films, ranging from an all-black musical drama, Moon Over Harlem (1939), to a pair of Ukrainian operettas and four powerful Yiddish features, most notably The Light Ahead (1939); numerous acclaimed B-pictures of diverse genres, including science fiction, melodrama, and the western; and, finally, such film noir classics as Detour (1945), his best-known film. Long overshadowed by the more celebrated careers of his fellow Austrian- and German-born peers, Ulmer’s work is now finally, more than four decades after his death, receiving a new wave of critical appreciation.

MONDAY, MARCH 3, 2014  |  6 P.M.
DANIEL FAMILY COMMONS  |  USDAN UNIVERSITY CENTER

College of Letters Open House — Only March 3

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thumbnailCAG0PBU6Dear Class of “17,

The COL will be hosting its Open House for prospective majors  in the COL library on Monday, March 3 at 4:15 p.m. at 41 Wyllys Ave. We had hoped to hold a second open house on Tuesday, March 4, but due to the rescheduling of a faculty meeting for that time, we will not be able to hold this second open house.    For those  who can’t make Monday, please feel free to be in touch with me if you have questions about the major and/or the application process. 

I look forward to seeing you or hearing from you,

Kari Weil, University Professor of Letters and Director, College of Letters

41 Wyllys Ave. #325, 860-685-2306