New Minor in Planetary Science
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!
Interested in Winter Session? Don’t miss your opportunity to participate! 
Registration 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.
Film Crit Panel with A.O. Scott, moderator: Criticism Now! A Conversation on the State of the Art–this evening, 8 p.m.
Come hear A. O. Scott, Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism at Wesleyan and a chief film critic at The New York Times moderate 
a discussion about the state of criticism today with panel guests Laura Miller, journalist and book critic, co-founder of Salon.com, and author of The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia; Wesley Morris, film critic for Grantland, former critic for The Boston Globe, and 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner in criticism; and Emily Nussbaum, television critic for The New Yorker, and 2014 ASME winner for Best Columns and Commentary.
Date: Tuesday, November 11 Time: 8 PM Place: Center for Film Studies, Goldsmith Family Cinema
Mid-Year Housing
Dear Students,
On Friday, November 7th, the housing selection website will be open for the mid-year program housing selection process. An email will go out tomorrow when the website is available.
Program houses are looking to fill vacancies that have opened due to students going abroad or taking leaves for the spring semester. First-year students are not eligible to participate in the mid-year program housing process. If you are currently in a program house, you are also not able to apply to a different house mid-year since you have made a year-long commitment to your current community.
The link to the Housing Selection website can be found in your e-portfolio under Residential Life and is called “Housing and Staff Selection”. When you enter the site and select the “Program Housing” link from the table, you will only see the applications for the houses with vacancies. If a house is not listed, it means that we do not have any spaces available for the spring. Please make your house preference and complete your application(s) (you are permitted a maximum of 3) and submit them by the deadline. The process timeline is as follows: Friday, November 7th: Applications are available at Noon (12 p.m.) EST Friday, November 14th: Applications are due at Noon (12 p.m.) EST Wednesday, November 19th: Decisions are released at noon (12 p.m.) EST Tuesday, November 25th: Decisions need to be confirmed by noon (12 p.m.) EST Monday, December 1st: Open bid process begins at Noon (12 p.m.)EST Friday, December 5th: Open bid decisions need to be confirmed by Noon (12 p.m.) EST If you are abroad and have limited internet access and would like to apply, please email us immediately and indicate which houses interest you. The Area Coordinator will then contact you.
Additional information about the selection process can be found in the housing selection website. We encourage you to read this information carefully before you apply. If you have any questions, please contact ResLife at reslife@wesleyan.edu.
Faculty/Sophomore Supper Series with Profs. Pitts-Taylor and Kaye–RSVP deadline today
FACULTY/SOPHOMORE SUPPER SERIES
Defining Your Interests and Making Informed Choices
Reminder to RSVP today! Only a few spaces left.
Guests of Honor:
Professor Victoria Pitts-Taylor, FGSS
and
Assistant Professor Kerwin Kaye, Sociology
Come and enjoy a three-course meal while you talk with Professors Pitts-Taylor and Kaye
in an informal setting about their experience as undergrads, their path to the academy,
their research and teaching, and why they love what they do.
Wednesday, October 29 at 6 p.m., Limited Seating
RSVP required by Tuesday, October 28 at noon to skulesza@wesleyan.edu
Co-hosted by Dean Brown, Deans’ Office/Student Affairs,
and Liliana Carrasquilla-Vasquez, Residential Life/Student Affairs, and
joined by Persephone Hall, Wesleyan Career Center
Study Abroad Info Session — Friday, 10/24, 12:15 p.m.
STUDY ABROAD INFO SESSION
FRI., OCT. 24 at 12:15 p.m.
Usdan Multi-purpose Room, B25
(across from the mail room)
Come for an informal discussion about study abroad with Gail Winter of the Office of International Studies and Dean Brown, Deans’ Office/Student Affairs.
Bring your lunch!
McNair & Mellon Mays Program Info Session — 11/4, 6:30 p.m.
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.
Lecture & Concert: “To Not Forget Crimea: Uncertain Quiet of Indigenous Crimean Tatars” — Friday evening, Oct. 24
“To Not Forget Crimea:
Uncertain Quiet of Indigenous Crimean Tatars”
Friday, October 24, 2014
Wesleyan University
Panel Discussion (6PM-Beckham Hall, free)
and Concert (8PM Memorial Chapel, $8)
The event will be live-streamed. More information and live-stream link available at: https://www.facebook.com/crimeaproject
This project is co-sponsored by Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts, Dance Department, Government Department, Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, and the Ukrainian Selfreliance New England Credit Union. Made possible in part by a grant from Wesleyan University’s Creative Campus Initiative, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This event is also part of “Muslim Women’s Voices at Wesleyan.