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Anniversary Exhibition at Davison Art Center — Opening Reception 3/29, 5 p.m.

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The Davison Art Center  

 presents

 With a Lot of Help from Our Friends

50 Years of Acquisitions Funded by the Friends of the Davison Art Center

Friday, March 30 – Sunday, May 27, 2012

Opening reception Thursday, March 29, 5:00–7:00 pm

Gallery talk by Clare Rogan, Curator, at 5:30 pm

Gallery Hours:  Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 4:00 pm

 In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Friends of the Davison Art Center, this exhibition presents a selection of the prints and photographs purchased through the efforts of the Friends.  Founded in the spring of 1962, the FDAC raises money for art acquisitions, educational activities and publications.  More than 900 works have been purchased through the generosity of the Friends.  Highlights of the exhibition include works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, William Hogarth, Eduard Manet, Anna Atkins, Carleton Watkins, Edvard Munch, Alfred Stieglitz, Aaron Siskind, Jasper Johns,  Helen Frankenthaler, and Glenn Ligon.

 

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Israeli Film Festival: Je T’aime, I Love you Terminal — 3/29, 8 p.m.

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The last screening in the Ring Family Wesleyan University Israeli Film Festival will take place on Thursday, March 29 at Goldsmith Family Cinema at 8  P.M. Dani Menkin, Jewish and Israel Visiting Scholar and the film’s director, will introduce and comment upon his film Je T’aime, I Love You Terminal. In this romantic comedy, a young Israeli man, travels from Israel to New York to join his American Fiancée. During a 24 –hour connection delay, he meets an eccentric and charming girl with whom he reconsiders love, relationships and life.

The film is in English and you can view a  video trail at the Israeli Film Website at http://iff.site.wesleyan.edu.

See you at the movies, Dalit Katz

 Religion Department & Jewish and Israel Studies Certificate Program, Director of the Ring Family Wesleyan University Israeli Film Festival

Call Admitted Students! Tues.-Sun. this week

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On Friday, admission offers went live to the potential members of the Class of 2016!  The Office of Admission will be holding its annual telethons to reach admitted students all over the country and try to help them choose Wes.  We need volunteers to congratulate these students and encourage them to visit during WESFEST and other times in April.  This is a great opportunity to come and talk to students from your area of the country (or anywhere!) about Wes.  The telethons will take place at the Office of Admission on:

Tuesday, March 27 6-9pm    Wednesday, March 28 6-9pm    Thursday, March 29 6-9pm    Sunday, April 1 1-4pm

If you are interested in helping admitted students to choose Wes and encourage them to visit campus, please support this effort!  You are not required to stay the duration of the telethon, but please just come for as long you can and bring friends along to help. 

Best of all the Office of Admission will provide free food (PIZZA!) if enough people show up (6+).

Come on out and play an important role in building the Class of 2016.  If you have any questions please send an email to Tara Lindros, Associate Dean of Admission, at tlindros@wesleyan.edu.  If you can attend, please click here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgJyj76tFJnfdEFQb3V3a1MzcXZJWXJ4U1Y0Z3VsU0E) to sign up.  Thanks!

 

Help a First-Year! Be an NSO Peer Advisor! App deadline 4/5/12

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The Deans’ Office is looking for talented and motivated students to become SARN Peer Advisors for New Student Orientation (NSO), 2012. NSO Peer Advisors are juniors, seniors and exceptional sophomores, who work throughout orientation to support Wesleyan’s faculty advising program, and enhance student access to academic resources through the Student Academic Resource Network (SARN).  A job description and application are found on-line at http://peeradvisor.blogs.wesleyan.edu.

Applications, which require a faculty reference form, are due Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Questions should be directed to the Associate Dean for Student Academic Resources, Sarah E. Lazare (x2332, slazare@wesleyan.edu).

Peers Advisors for NSO ’12 Needed! App deadline 4/5/12

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The Deans’ Office is looking for talented and motivated students to become SARN Peer Advisors for New Student Orientation (NSO), 2012. NSO Peer Advisors are juniors, seniors and exceptional sophomores, who work throughout orientation to support Wesleyan’s faculty advising program, and enhance student access to academic resources through the Student Academic Resource Network (SARN).  A job description and application are found on-line at http://peeradvisor.blogs.wesleyan.edu.

Applications, which require a faculty reference form, are due Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Questions should be directed to the Associate Dean for Student Academic Resources, Sarah E. Lazare (x2332, slazare@wesleyan.edu).

Honors in General Scholarship — App deadline 4/30/12

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The Honors Committee now requires students who intend to pursue Honors in General Scholarship in their senior year to submit their application for review in the spring. 

That means that UNIV majors or rising seniors who wish to pursue this route to honors must submit their application materials by April 30, 2012.  The new process and requirements are posted at the following link:  http://www.wesleyan.edu/registrar/honors/general_scholarship.html.

 

CHUM Student Fellow — Fall 2012 or Spring 2013; App deadline 4/6/12

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Student Fellowship Center for the Humanities

 Calling Class of 2013

 Application Deadline:  April 6, 2012

 Please visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/chum and follow the Student Fellowship link for  the application.

 All members of the junior class are invited to apply for a semester-long Student Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities during the 2012-13 academic year. Wesleyan’s is among the first such university humanities centers established and serves to bring together Wesleyan faculty, students and visiting scholars for extended exploration of selected subjects. Our 2012-13 themes are “Temporality: Stasis, Repetition, Transformation” (Fall semester) and “Emplacing the Local” (Spring semester).  Descriptions of these themes are available at the website above.

Four Student Fellowships are awarded by the Center’s Advisory Board for each semester.  Student Fellows share an office at the Center and take part in Center activities. Among these events are the Center’s Monday lecture series; colloquial discussions on Tuesdays, 10:30-1:00; and occasional Center conferences. One course credit is awarded for a Student Fellow’s participation in the Center’s activities.

 Applicants for a Student Fellowship must be planning to do a senior project (an honors thesis) on a topic related to a Center theme for the year.  The project need not be underway at the time of the application.  The themes, “Temporality: Stasis: Repetition, Transformation” and “Emplacing the Local” are broadly construed and connect with projects and problems across the disciplines. Faculty Fellows who will work at the Center during fall semester are Professors Cohen (English), Huge (Art and Environmental Studies), Rouse (Science in Society, Philosophy, and Environmental Studies), Tang (English and American Studies), and Weiss (Anthropology and American Studies). Faculty Fellows who will work at the Center during the spring semester are Professors Ahmad (Religion and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), Croucher (Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies), Garrett (English), Goldberg (Sociology), and Karamcheti (English and American Studies). There will also be several Visiting Research Fellows and Postdoctoral Fellows.

 Applications for student fellowships are due at the Center by Friday, April 6.  We will let you know of the Center Advisory Board’s decision by April 18.  If you have any questions, please call the Center at extension 3044.